The Two Islands
S a Northerner I found much material for agreeable thought in Cotsford Burdon’s talks "North Versus South," though I would have been perfectly willing to listen for the sake of the verbal pyrotechnics alone (‘Mortgages suppusating with unpaid interest’). The talk was full of below-surface implications, possibly unnoticed by the author, but visible to the shrewder "Northern eye. Mr. Burdon’s reference to Northerners being closely in touch with Government and Civil Service implies that the country’s brain-centre is situated in the upper half; his recommendation of a Secretary of State for the South Island suggests the need for the stronger, more advanced partner to stretch down a helping hand. And what a proof of our fundamental tolerance that the NZBS, a Northern body, should have permitted Mr. Burdon, a Southern body, to air his views so uninterruptedly over the interisland air! I liked Mr. Burdon’s point
that the two communities should. be complementary rather than supplementary. Would a national dress for South Islanders help their tourist trade?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 11
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170The Two Islands New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 11
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