Brief Flowers
‘THE privilege of listening to the House in session is one I have no difficulty in denying myself. Reared as I have been in the NZBS tradition that the listener always comes first I have a. firm objection to being disregarded, an objection probably reinforced recently by an unfortunate experience I had when trying to get 2YD and finding some single- minded ham sitting astride the wave-length (never mind-I got his number); He was telling all his friends in Basic English that poor old Bill was quite browned off-he’d got what it takes but his reception was still crook. But an electioneering address is a different matter. Here my presence is definitely felt, I am the unseen guest at every gathering care is taken that I shall hear the candidate’s apt reply to the interjegtion while being spared the doubtless ribald remark that occasioned it, I am deferred to as a member of "that larger audience that is ‘with me tonight in spirit." And, in the sunlight of my unseen smile, bloom those flowers of oratory which, we are told, have largely withered from the House where,
at the moment, no Dirds sing.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 11
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197Brief Flowers New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 11
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