FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PAPERS
Sir,-I very much appreciated Professor Gordon’s article on foreign-lan-guage newspapers in New Zealand. Quite apart from their, usefulness as a bridge between the newcomer and his new homeland, I think such publications deserve sympathy rather than suspicion. It is not only that they make a good job of interpreting New Zealand to the immigrant; we should fully understand that our lceal newspapers cannot give the immigrant news about his homeland in which he is-and quite properly so -very interested, It matters little whether his own country is. free and he left it voluntarily (ag in the ¢ase of the Dutch), or whether it is occupied and the refugee newcomer therefore eagerly reads exile news. No man can live without his mother tongue or without a "home"’-New Zealanders no less than the newcomers. You cannot endeavour to assimilate a man with neither; and I think you can assimilate him more easily if you recognise that he has a birthright to both, In this connection I think that Mr. Cave’s new series of broadcasts from Wanganui (also mentioned in your issue of March 28) could do much to bring us closer to a fuller understanding of language problems. Would it be possible to have the series recorded and later on released through more powerful- transmitters?
HARRY J.
BENDA
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 5
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