A Deep Depression Lies
HE weather report is drama in the grand manner. "A deep depression lies over Marlborough and is moving slowly to the north-east"; .and one imagines the implacable, inevitable forces of nature casting their shadow over the
countryside. Actually, [am not at all sure whether a depression is a bringer of rain or fair days. When I hear that the weather in Auckland will be "cloudy and’ mild" my doubts are of a different quality. Shall I need an umbrella, of does this mean that thé change to winter underwear may be deferred another week? Were the weather office not so obviously wedded to this dramatic form of presentation one might suggest something considerably brighter. Something like this for instance: "Calling Auckland, the Waikato and the Bay of Plenty Rugby Union. Don’t worry about those clouds to-morrow. They have their silver lining. Sunshine for Saturday; all sports as usual, Don’t forget to take a packet of seeds home to-night; it’ll be grand growing weather next week." What an opportunity for an enterprising sponsor, radio’s best selling session-gumboots, goloshes, or golf balls; sunshades, sandshoes, or, for that deep depression, sal volatile.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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193A Deep Depression Lies New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 10
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