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"LTERE," said the announcer, "is the Overseas and New Zealand news." After the usual tales of skullduggery in high places, minor wars, accusations, denials, conferences and starvation, it was pleasant to be soothed by local items, An overseas visitor had said something kind about our fishing, but our hotels were not quite what he was used to: there was talk of an old building,
a landmark, being removed from a northern city to make room for a block ot offices; somebody’s cow had broken »# butterfat record; ¢ Minister had made a statement about a new hydro-electric schéme, and there was a controversy on
a fine point in the organisation of next segson’s football. The English wife of an man, at whose home I was being entertained that evening, clicked her knitting needles and said she had just about got used to New Zealand radio, but she wished the NZBS would broadcast five or ten minuces of English news once a week. "The BBC used to broadcast New Zealand news for Kiwi units in England during the war," she said. "My husband lapped it up, even if it was only about a clock tower being demolished. There must be hundreds of English brides out here now; you'd think something could be done for them." It seemed a reasonable request; I imagine she was thinking of something other than the items of local interest occasionally heard at the end of the BBC news bulletins. (continued on next page)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 399, 14 February 1947, Page 11
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