NEW ZEALAND WINTER

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 530, 19 August 1949, Page 15

NEW ZEALAND WINTER

Sir,-Tut, tut, Marie Alderson! The trouble with you is that your blood is too thin from stewing in Canadian houses. Stir yourself; fly around and do some work, as New Zealand women do, and you won’t feel so cold. And thank God that you are living in a civilised climate where, even in mid-winter, the flowers bloom and the birds sing, and there is no day in the year when it is too hot, or too cold, to go out. And cease your long, literary moanings.

NELLE

SCANLAN

(Wellington).

Sir,-Mrs. Alderson’s article on the4 climate of Auckland struck’ an approving chord in the breasts of the threequarters of a million people who have to endure it. But there is disappointment that she made no mention of that seemingly non-existent heavenly bodythe sun. Just as there are children born in Australia who have not yet seen rain, so there are babies born in Auckland, babies who have cut four teeth already, babies who can sit up and take notice, who have never seen the sun! What the effect on the poor little mites will be when it first bursts upon them, only | the psychologists can tell us. But its absence from our scene explains why the Public Relations Office have not yet issued their third prize slogan: "Auckland, the place where the Arctic spends the summer." No doubt they will have to add, "and stays over for the winter."

JUDY

T.

(Auckland),