PORTS of CALL
‘] HE people\of one of today’s disputed territories, Ilha Formosa, the "Beautiful Island," live and work uneasily only 100 miles from South China’s coast. Oppressed by the Japanese till 1945, they had barely time to recoyer before being called on to provide a home for China’s National Government and some 4,000,000 refugees who fled the mainland when the communists took over in 1949. The problems of adjustment are huge, For the traveller, however, the problems are much the same as ever they were: How to obtain towels in hotels; how to dodge the incredibte traffic; does a 64-dollar meal mean bankruptcy? © Listeners will be able to hear a little about the larger problems and a lot about the little problems in a series of travel talks to be broadcast shortly in
the Women’s Hour from all ZB stations, 2ZA and 1XH. Entitled Ports of Call, the talks are by Jessie Goddard, née. Jessie McLennan, formerly Organiser of. Women’s Programmes for the ‘Commercial Division of the .NZBS. Since her marriage Mrs. Goddard has been travelling in New Zealand’s Near North, and her talks will deal not only with Formosa -now called by its Chinese name of Tai-wan--but also with Singapore and Hong Kong. The latter city she also found grossly overcrowded’ with refugees, but the squalor was compensated by the fascinating life in the streets and sight of the glittering city by night. Ports of Call will be broadcast first in the Women’s. Hour from 2ZB and 2ZA, beginning Friday, April 2. It will be heard later from the other ZBs and 1XH.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 21
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264PORTS of CALL New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 766, 26 March 1954, Page 21
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