LUNAR HORTICULTURE
Sir,-"The most fertile dates this month for sowing seeds are from 4.15 p.m. on the -th to 1.39 a.m. on the --th, and from 11.10 p.m." So announces 1ZB every Saturday at 12.59 p.m. This pretentious accuracy, with its inference that the time could be given to a split second, to me savours so much of humbug that I am impelled to ask: (1) Who supplies information and what are his qualifications for this
extraordinary work? (2) Does the Government, through the NZBS, pay for this information and thus inferentially approve of it? (3) Is this horticultural science (?) approved by the Department of Agriculture, or by the Department of — Scientific and Industrial Research or by the Royal Society of New Zealand? If so, why does not the Department of Agriculture, in broadcasts and by instructors, emphasise and re-emphasise its importance to farmers? In short, is this ZB broadcast scientific fact or merely a revival of centuries old astrology and witchcraft?
CURIOUS
(Auckland),
(We are informed that the information is "merely passed on’ in the Gardening Session but that the Gardening Expert does not endorse it-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 464, 14 May 1948, Page 5
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187LUNAR HORTICULTURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 464, 14 May 1948, Page 5
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