Don't Talk!
IN Saturdays at 5.30 pm. 1ZB runs a Children’s Competition Corner which is full of the typeof thing one remembers revelling in at that age. In fact it all seemed to me very appropriate and straightforward until I heard a competition that raised quite a question of ethics. Or was it a catch? Twelve clues were given, and the answers were to be worked out and sent back to the station. The answer to each was the name of a ship that had visited Auckland during the war. "Calling all boys!’’ said 1ZB, "You may have seen these ships while they were at the wharf; if not, you probably heard them talked about.’ What is young Peter to do? If he lived in a waterfront suburb he probably did see the ships; he may have heard them talked about. But if he was sternly trained to suppress interest in ships, to observe the ubiquitous "Don’t Talk!’ posters, will he now be penalised for his ignorance, and learn all too young that the lawabiding do not always reap their reward? Or does 1ZB plan to be subtle and to give the prize to the boy who will deny all knowledge of ships that came here during the war? It will all be over before this is printed, but in the meantime it has me guessing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 11
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226Don't Talk! New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 11
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