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UCH promising reports had come from. Christchurch on the discussionseries Does the New Zealand Baby Get the Best Possible Care? that I was delighted to see from the programmes that they were starting a Wellington season. The "Before Birth" discussion, which I have now heard from 2YA, is in the nature of an adagio to what I gather is the rapid-fire scherzo of the second movement. But the adagio is not without its charm, There was an agreeably ladylike atmosphere about it, a pleas-' ing absence of the desire to thrust oneself forward (come to think of it, diffidence is possibly the quality most marked in all our radio talkers), and a perfect willingness to Jet the other woman have the last word. Comparisons were evidently considered odious, since there was little attempt to compare New Zealand standards of ante-natal care with those .obtaining in other countries, but enough was said to give listeners the impression that more things are being done on behalf of the expected than are dreamt of in the philosophy of the non-
expectant,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 11
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