OLDER NEW ZEALAND
Sir,-The person who wrote the choice paragraph "Older New Zealand" describing a recent broadcast from 1YA by Earle Vaile, Keith Sinclair and myself is skilled in phraseology. Not often so much can be put in so small a space. The last sentence was a masterpiece of literary brevity. The broadcast was heard .as far north as Kaitaia and as far south as Invercargill, and a request made that it might be repeated over some of the smaller stations so that the "two proud; elephants" which were "being gingerly sniped at by a youthful hunter" might be heard in pioneering districts where the pioneers are still held in the highest respect by their descendants. One thing should be mentioned, and that is that the two octogenarian broadcasters are very similar in appearance when they are sitting down, They both have a good head of hair and each has the same closely clipped pointed’ beard; there is nothing barefaced about them! Mr. Vaile has written two books, one on farming pumice land and fhe other one historical, My four books, the latest written in 1947, are all historical dealing with pioneering life; three of my books are out of print and classed as rare books.
W. K.
HOWITT
(Devonport).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 5
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