Dullness at Seven
"THE briskness of the morning call changed to dullness at noon." When the listener has ceased to be moved by the occasional vivid phrases in which the reports of the share market are clothed, the feeling grows that the Stock Exchange is perhaps just a great playing field, and the proper place for
reports of what has gone on there during the day is among the Sports Results. The monetary value of the transactions recounted to us is ridiculously smallfifty shares in some well known firm have been bought, or they have been
sold, or somebody has offered them for sale, but would-be purchasers have bid two shillings too little. A few of these items and five minutes on the air is gone, yet the sum total of money involved is but a few hundreds of pounds. Is there some deep significance in these movements of little handfuls of shares? If so, let us have a commentator to put them into perspective for us, to explain their portent, If there is not, if it is just that a few men play a game whose rules are Greek to the rest of us, then away with them to a quieter corner of the programmes, Seven o'clock at a main National station is an important hour and worth something of more general interest.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 9
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224Dullness at Seven New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 9
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