The Dusty Past
UR Fathers Have Told Us (the first session of which I heard from 2ZB last Sunday) was a worthy monument to the good work done by those who worked like Beavis digging out the material from the dusty bowels of the Alexander Turnbull. Library, where no
listener would ever have thought of looking for it. Sated with the human nature that impinges on most of us willy-nilly from the flat above and from over the next-door fence we would seldom think of going to a library to get a dollop more of it, however historically valuable. However it’s a different matter when we have it served to us on a silver platter. The extracts were well chosen, full of simple homely details as well as reflecting the major upheavals of the time, and casting light not only on the pakeha -but on the Maori as he saw him. Two minor points occurred to me, however. The first is that the women’s letters would be better read by a female voice. And the second that almost anything, even Waiata Poi, would provide a more fitting signature tune than Greensleeves, which surely takes the bun for the most used record in the NZBS library.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 8
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205The Dusty Past New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 8
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