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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 660, 29 February 1952, Page 10

HEER description of the countryside springs from a romantic attitude. towards ‘natural surroundings which has great dangers. A bald record is about as inspiring and falsifying as a snapshot, while the product of an expansive mood can dissolve the landscape as effectively as mist. The straight and narrow path, though accurate in factual descriptions, is slanted towards glory by a careful but not necessarily muted use of adjective and metaphor. After listening to Colin Wills on the Thames and being preoccupied with what we ought to be doing along similar lines, imagine my delight in Lawrence Constable’s series on "Way Stations," heard from 3YC at the beginning of this month. In their actual brevity — some were only four to six minutes long -their interior sense of leisure, their interest in people, their humour, and their evocative power, these provided a model of crafsmanship for other enthusiasts of the local scene. Here and there the mixture was a little rich ("I lent him a receptive ear and he gave me ai critical commentary," which occurred in "Gateway to the McKenzie"), but one gladly remembers that on’ clear days at Omarama the mountains are "abrasive to the sky."