Tri-Partisan Disagreement
RECENT Monday’s three quarter talk from 2YA ("That Trip Home-Is It Really Necessary?") was too compartmented and corsetted to be regarded as a discussion, and too uninspired to be mistaken for an oratory contest. I thought the only person who suggested McCulloughed ease was the first speaker, A. D. Allen, of the British Travel Association, whose initial Joadism ("It all depends what you mean by
necessary") set the right note of informal but informed chattiness. Mr. Allen was of the firm opinion that New Zealanders. deserved a trip home after "a lifetime of isolation in this remote Pacific paradise.’ Where was the food
coming from? was the burden of Mr. Heath-Preest’s carefully delivered speech-in-reply. Miss Brown thought the tourist would scarcely be impressed by the hotel silver or service, but the travelled Mr. Allen, who had _ seen worse in New York, Paris, Geneva, Génoa and Vienna, thought this small reason for denying tourists the pleasure and Britain the profit. In spite of the Chairman’s sanguine summing-up I doubt whether this was a discussion which gave listeners food for thought. The only thing that’ impressed me about it was the excessive modesty of all concerned. If the Chairman had not been present to put in a polite "Would you like to say something . . .?" I’m sure no one would have got round to producing that sheaf of vest-pocket or handbag notes.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 14
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231Tri-Partisan Disagreement New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 481, 10 September 1948, Page 14
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