Spring Can Be Far Behind
SN’T spring the silly season any more? Certainly not to the compilers of that heavy-handed programme Spring-time in New Zealand, whose only virture was that it reminded me of an old old TIFH joke. (Psychiatrist Edwards says, "I bought this couch in Mayfair." to which Patient Bentley re-
torts, "Well, you left the spring in Park Lane.") Spring, seasonal and motor, was almost equally far behind here. Lambs at play? No, an account of studies of identical twin calves at Ruakura Animal Research Station. Birds building nests? Well, . we heard a millin-_ ery expert discussing straw and feath- | ers for the spring
chapeau, but sex was not permitted to rear its bedecked head. And I cannot regard as truly vernal the account of the grape-growing industry in New Zealand or the picture of the Wellington auctioneer "surrounded by pumpkins like a priest at a harvest festival." Sure enough, we did hear from a high-coun-try shepherd who made a point of hearing the first long-tailed cuckoo, but he said spring meant to him getting his gumboots out and looking them over before the floods: Looks as though I shall have to go back to getting my romance from Aunt Jenny.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 21
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204Spring Can Be Far Behind New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 21
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