TEST BROADCASTS
Sir-Once in every five years or so there is a thing called a Test match in Australia, which is a matter of some interest to a large number of cleanliving, high-thinking and licence-paying New Zealanders. For about ten hours of every day of every year, every radio station in New Zealand churns out an endless stream of recorded noise, technically known as music. By some curiosity of departmental arithmetic, the NZBS considers it a just proportion if we are deprived. of three quarterhours of this music, and allowed a what-the-butler-saw sort of peep at the noble contest raging across the Tasman. With superlative cunning, the three dullest periods of play, before lunch, tea and stumps, are chosen for our delight. And then, when something happens, when sixes and catches follow in a dizzy series, when we do not know whether a man is in or out, they cut us off in the middle of a sentence. . |! Sir, this is not cricket; it is not justice: it is not even common sense. The Government can well congratulate themselves that the election was over before we knew of this. Is it too late for the department to turn over in its sleep, and allow us to hear the remaining Tests, otherwise than asa series of hiccups?
S.
MUSGROVE
(Auckland).
(It is impossible to give Professor Musgrove what he wants-all the Test cricket, apparently-without displacing many progtammes that others want.-Ed.) :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 5
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239TEST BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 5
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