THE TIME.
Sir-It’s amazing! It’s’ terrific! Thousands of workers spent £30 to £40 on a radio and pay 25/- a year license, "for no. other purpose than to know the time." So The Listener staff and all programme organisers might well fold up their tents. All we need is a time teller. Mr. Stevenson doesn’t say what happens to these thousands of train, tram, bus and ferry catchets when the announcer gives out the wfdong time--~ as he often does! Neither does he explain how it is that thousands of workers in these enlightened days are so ignorant that they cannot read the face of a clock. I managed to get to work on time in the days before radio announcers told me that "It’s seven-forty-three-seven-forty-three." By the time I have worked out that this means seventeen minutes to eight in my language the bus has gone,
POLICEMAN
(Taranaki).
Sir,-Has it ever otcurred to G. C. Stevenson of Castor Bay to buy a good reliable watch?
I WONDER
(Marton)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 5
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169THE TIME. New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 5
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