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;OR my money, the NZBS has never done a better job than its coverage of the "Royal Occasions." Months of preparation paid heavy dividends, for technica] arrangements were excellent, the commentators at their best, and the inevitable "fluffs" (including that of the gentleman who told us that "Warkworth was 40 miles north of New Zealand") were few. But, spending the ChristmasNew Year fortnight at home and having no wish to hear every Royal broadcast, I found that there was little else available to my taste. When it wasn’t the Royal visit, it was Racing or Tennis, Sundays only excepted; enough to give a visitor the impression that the universal religion of New Zealanders is Equinolatry. Of course, this was a necessary service, and most other listeners were catered for agreeably enough by 1ZB and 1YD, but 1YA filled in between horsey matters with the same kind of "pops" numbers. Might not 1YC have been on the air for some hours daily, or if that is expecting too much, at. least half of 1YD’s time devoted to a different kind of entertainment for those who cannot agree: that holidays put people out of the mood to hear serious music?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 9
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200Musical Shares New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 9
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