THANKS FROM NEW GUINEA
Sir,-We exist in a crater that would bake a potato and our living expenses are high; where copra bugs eat us along with mosquitoes and the leaky-roofed pub’s always dry; tho’ roads aren’t improving, we’ve deferred plans for moving to climate more temperate and fair, the reason for this is the Heavenly bliss when Wellington gives us the air; sO we wait for the voice of one Ernest Joyce to cheer us folks near the Equator, from seven to nine the reception is fine but we’d rather you stayed a bit later; the music’s the best, it’s a mental rest from the usual panic and clamour, the sopranos sing low and don’t sound as tho’ they’re being attacked with a hammer; and the news that he serves doesn’t shatter our nerves into feeling the struggle’s in vain, but after a session with Joyce in possession we come up feeling practically sane; so here’s cheers for that session and I make the confession as a poet I’m corny and crumby, but we can always take more of ZL3 and 4, the station that’s friendly and chummy.
H.
HARTLEY
(Rabaul)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 5
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192THANKS FROM NEW GUINEA New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 5
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