Endurance Test
INCE the occasion of the OtagoSouthland football match is pandemonium, whether the Ranfurly Shield is involved or not, there are only two possible courses of action for the listener ~-either to retreat to an ivory tower for a week before and a week after the game, or else to join in the fun and appreciate the spirit of the occasion to the full. The 4YA programme, "Invasion 1949," was a decidedly good preliminary for the Saturday on which the match took place this year. It dealt in unashamedly parochial style (the inference being that New Zealand has no other provinces to mention) with matches of past, present, and future, with old retired players and newer ones, with the rival chances for the game, and
so on-the aim being, possibly, to get listeners worked to such a pitch of frenzied excitement that by the time Saturday came it wouldn’t seem unduly fatiguing to listen to the Ranfurly Shield game in the afternoon, and follow that up with the Cricket Test at 10 o’clock and the All Blacks versus South Africa at 1.30 a.m. approximately Those listeners who followed this routine, as I did, have my sympathy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 11
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197Endurance Test New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 11
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