No Agreement
|F the recent Citizens’ Forum from 2ZB, "Should Divorce be Made Easier," turned out to be little more than a studio discussion the fault lies with (continued on next page) ’
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the organisers who have taken the forum from its citizens and converted it into just another exhibition of indoor fireworks. Of course, one should feel thankful for the fireworks, even if there are a,few damp squibs among them, but I for one miss the informality of question-time. Mr. Wadman is, of course, an ‘excellent chairman Long May He Reign), but even he found a natural difficulty in evaluating the progress towards agreement reached by two speakers whose viewpoints on marriage were as different as Nigel Taylor’s and Monsignor Macrae’s. It was a pity that Mr, Wadman could not have put forward his suggested dichotomy of marriage into Civil and Christian at the beginning of the discussion instead of at the end-perhaps we could have got somewhere from there. Miss Kathleen Ross who, by sex and occupation, seemed to represent the interests of women and children, might have made a better stand had she not been charged down by hobby-horses.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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194No Agreement New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 19
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