Challenge of the Cities
HE forties are commonly considered the prime of life, and this is affirmed by the four entrants in Challenge of the Cities, who are well into the forties and still going strong. I have no idea whether the organisers are going to treat this contest as a game of skill and impose .|an arbitrary limit or whether they intend to wait till the whole thing dies of old age. There seems no immediate likelihood of the latter, since the gauntlets thrown down in the last session I heard were as fine as any seen earlier in the session’s history. My only doubts concern the Voice ef Judgment himself. In that session he escaped obloquy by assigning equal points to each of the four competitors, though personally I considered Christchurch’s proud boast of having produced Miss New Zealand an unbeatable challenge, and certainly unequalled by Auckland’s champion walker, Dunedin’s whistling wonder or Wellington’s claim to being the tramper’s treasure trove. But ultimately the Voice’s veil of impartiality must be rent, the final decision published, and all will know which of the four cities bore and nurtured this Daniel.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10
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191Challenge of the Cities New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 10
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