Prizes for Gallantry
fim prize tor the week should go to | the NZBS announcer who attempted | an actuality broadcast of the arrival of | the new settlers-75 of them-in Dunedin. Wilfred Pickles himself might have quailed at having to do his stuff on a moving platform amid the hubbub of a train and with no prizes in the offing. And yet it was a’ laudable idea to take the microphone aboard the train and so avoid some of the banality of the inevitable station scene and formal greeting; but the train’s vigorous obbligato was too much, I fear, for the untrained voices of our new friends. Occasionally a remark would pierce the layer of background noise, but the announcer had to do most of the talking for anything to be heard. One immigrant who had evidently been asked too often to admire New Zealand scenery, got in a dirty left hook, by observing blandly that it was very much better than she had been led to expect. Alas for God’s Own Country! Possibly a prize could also be equally divided among these 75 young men and women, who endured with so much politeness and such genuine goodwill-when we could hear them-the intrusion of our
curosity.
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 11
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206Prizes for Gallantry New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 536, 30 September 1949, Page 11
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