Too Much Technicolour
MRS. HODGSON’S talks from 4YA, | Byways of Maoriland, are a little too like a travel-brochure; she reads rather than speaks her descriptions, and appeals rather to the tourist than to the listener born in New Zealand. In other words she gives a technicolour picture rather than a documentary. She does, (continued on next page)
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however, warm up as she goes on, and her personal experiences can be really absorbing. Her account of a nine-mile horseback ride to a concert at a Maori pa, for example, of a supper of roast pork, kumaras, puha, and karaka berries, and again of a night spent on the floor in close proximity with fellow-humans, tame animals, and not-so-tame rats, was worth 20 formal descriptions of the beauties of the thermal regions.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 9
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134Too Much Technicolour New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 500, 21 January 1949, Page 9
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