Older New Zealand
HE gulf that yawns between the views of different generations was disclosed in a Let’s Talk it Over discussion on "Has the Pioneer Spirit Disappeared?" The speakers were two men who have published books dealing with the early days in New Zealand, Earle Vaile and W. K. Howitt and Keith Sinclair, a university lecturer in history, who represented the younger generfation. As the combined ages of Messrs. Vaile and. Howitt exceeded 160 years, and Mr. Sinclair could claim» about 1-6th of that, it is not surprising that the session was marked by courteous deference on one: side, and on the other by an unyielding emphasis on modern degeneration, The two pioneers exemplified the older view in their distfust of Government assistance and in their cynical references to Social Security. On the other hand, Mr. Sinclair, when permitted to speak, was able to point out that modern conditions had removed the need for certain aptitudes and that robust qualities were exercised by the younger people in different directions. If the session gave somewhat the impression of a youthful hunter sniping gingerly at two proud eélephatits, the very irrelevancies of the older speakers brought a not unwelcome whiff of old New Zealand on the ait.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 532, 2 September 1949, Page 10
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