Ships that Pass
"TRANSATLANTIC LINER" has added Christchurch to its list of ports of call, and now arrives regularly for the benefit of housewives, hospital patients, and the unemployed. (Me, I just heard it by chance.) It consists, as far as I could gather, of a series of incidents, complete in themselves, which take place on board a liner travelling between London and New York; the link is provided by the purser and a gentleman called O’Shea, whose exact standing I forget, but whose role is clearly that of the purser’s confidant. This week’s story was one which should strike a sympathetic chord in any listener; it was intimately concerned with the question of hot bath-water, abundance of, and (or woe is’us!) lack of same. It seemed a little hard on the housewife, but probably ‘she thinks of other things anyway; like the woman in Margaret Halsey’s book who was asked what she thought about in the kitchen-"This morning I was wishing I could find a policeman in tears so that I could say ‘My cop funneth over." But perhaps she didn’t have a radio to listen to. This particular ship could have provided her with 15 minutes’ entertainment with all types of passengers--it caters for all classes; Chaucer, we may note, had the same idea 1,500 years ago, but he called it a pilgrimage.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 9
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225Ships that Pass New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 9
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