The Rest Was Silence
RTABLE radio isn’t always as delightful, or as foolproof, as it seems in those advertisements showing it doing its scuff in the centre of a picnic party in the sandhills, geyserland, or the matagouri. All the people in the advertisements are usually happily singing, oblivious to the sandfly menace and innocent of such a thing as @ hangover. They are all suntanned, and there isn’t a cloud in the sky. Nothing is said in the advertising copy about the portable radio reacting to bad weather, distance from the listener’s favourite station, or proximity to mountains and other local landscape features. My own portable could have proved the only link with civilisation om New Year’s Eve-had it not decided to turn temperamental during the crucial half-hour between a quarter-to-twelve and a quarter-past. From the sounds which surged and faded through a barrage of static, I gathered that someone at one station had taken a microphone up to a motor camp at Alexandra, and that 4ZB was holding a high, wide and handsome celebration called a Monster Barbecue. But at that moment my radio went quite dead, and perhaps it was a good thing too, New Year’s.Eve is one occasion which can’t be celebrated by proxy!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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207The Rest Was Silence New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 8
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