Help Wanted
HE housewife’s social conscience, so often diluted by dishwater and beginning and ending at home, seemed to be offered a chance to develop a little in 2YA’s well-presented Tuesday morning series Other People’s Problems (which might, however, be more aptly entitled Other People’s Solutions). So far we have had experts speaking on such topics as Speech Therapy, Child Welfare, the Play Centre Movement, the After Care Association. These have been valuable both in their approach to listeners’ own problems, and also in suggesting fields for voluntary effort, but I think the series could well be followed up by something that offers. more specific help. Not quite Dorothy Dix or George Anthiel perhaps (though a really intimate session. would rank high on any self-respecting popularity poll), but a practical off-shoot of the women’s discussion panel. Of course, such a session would unfortunately soon suffer the same embarrassments as 2YD’s Saturday night request session, whose compére told us with bated breath the other night not to get excited, but in three weeks’ time-please, not a minute sooner-he will again be
open to suggestions,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 13
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185Help Wanted New Zealand Listener, Volume 24, Issue 623, 8 June 1951, Page 13
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