Bright Faces
ANTERBURY football has been at a low ebb this season. Otago walked all ever us in a Ranfurly Shield challenge, and it is seldom these Monday mornings after a rep. match that one can find a merry face in Hereford
Street. The local slaves of the NZBS share Canterbury’s sorrow, and it was evident when Canterbury played Poverty Bay that they too were listening and hoping for better things. The 3YC announcer, telling, the customers that they were about to hear Sibelius’s Seventh Symphony, had to compete with a technical hitch that let the glad news through his mike " .... Richards to Kelly, Kelly draws the fullback and (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) he’s going to scorrrrre!!!!" The announcer hastily curtailed his description of the symphony’s movements and put the needle on the first discy Sibelius’s Seventh isn’t a very long symphony; just long enough to let the slaves follow Canterbury into a winning position. There were bright: faces in Hereford Street next morning, and even the earlyshift announcer sounded happy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 8
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175Bright Faces New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 8
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