LIVELY AND PROVOCATIVE
ESTION MARK, the YA national discussion session, om is one of the best of recent innovations. I haven’t heard a dull panel yet. If there is one feature that deserves a weekly repeat it is surely this. The recent discussion Has New Zealand Come Up to Expectations? by three new settlers, a Dutchman, an Englishman and an Estonian woman, under the chairmanship of Richard Beauchamp, was very lively and decidedly .provocative. The panel was uninhibitedly frank and _ critical-of our school system (mildly), of our pioneering myths (sharply), of our commercial radio (devastatingly)-and there was a division of opinion as to whether New Zealanders work harder from Monday to Friday, in their employers’ time, or on Saturday and Sunday, in their own. There was a pleasant tone about the whole session, with enough praise mingled with the blame to remove any charge of unreasonableness. The chairman was inevitably moved to act as the defender of local mores, This he did ably enough; but I did feel that his often-repeated "Give us time" wasn’t precisely a devastating counter-argu-ment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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179LIVELY AND PROVOCATIVE New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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