City Noises
A NEWSBOY outside Wellington’s . G.P.O. let out an eldritch screech- | his way of selling his papers. A purchaser gave him a shilling and waited for his tenpence change. But the boy’s eye was on a competitor across the street. They took turns at yelling and still the man waited for his tenpence. Came a yell more piercing than the rest. The customer put his hands over his ‘ears. "Gosh, boy, you'll deafen me," he said. "What about my change?" The vocal duet reached a pitch Wellingtonians had never heard before, and a small crowd gathered. The explanation of what appeared to be developing into a pretty little problem lay in a truck, a few yards further on. A man holding a microphone gave hand signals to each vocalist in turn, while a recording plant took a disc of the city’s street noises. It was station 2ZB’s waggon, hunting up material for one of its Sunday evening Gazettes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 374, 23 August 1946, Page 9
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159City Noises New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 374, 23 August 1946, Page 9
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