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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 557, 24 February 1950, Page 5

Sir,-I would like to express our sincere arid enthusiastic appreciation of the wonderful work of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in connection with the. Games. Through the expert co-op-eration of the many people concerned, the voices of Winston McCarthy, Joe King and Forbes Carlile, the three most outstanding personalities, came to us in our ‘distant farm home and gave us a most marvellous picture of the Games. They gave us the canvas painted with the sure and. expert strokes of artists, and peopled it with living people who moved in front of us as in a living pic-: ture. We were thrilled with every minute of the broadcasts from the moment the curtain. rose and the crowded amphitheatre of Eden Park was described for us till the dark and emptying @rena faded from our sight on the night of February 11. Indeed, those three.were companions whose company "we could not have enjoyed had we been one of the thousands actually in Eden Park, at the Olympic Pool, at Karapiro or at Western Springs. As it was, we were able to dodge from one place to the other, as on a magic carpet, and the expert knowledge of our commentators added to our pleasure all the time. I am sure they must be in world class as far as broadcasting of this kind is concerned, Their conversation to each other as the commentary proceeded added, not -only to our fun and enjoyment, but was most informative to the lay mind. I feel. I want to congratulate these men on their work, which. at times must have been exhausting, and yet no inkling of

this was allowed to interfere with the tempo of their broadcasts. Well done

and many thinks,

J.H.

S.

(Apiti).