Goats and Whales
HE summer is a time of little things in radio entertainment and instruction, Of these this week there have been two delightful examples. The 3YC "Chlorophyll" talk by Dr. Magnus Pyke was a ray of purest light serene in the naughty world of advertising where brass is bartered as gold. Ending a session which delved into the curious secrets of our physical being (one of which was that you can make a child’s breath smell of garlic by rubbing that vegetable against the soles of its feet) the speaker quoted a rhymé from a British newspaper: The goat that reeks on yonder hill has browsed all day on chlorophyll. John Hall’s small talk on the "Okarita Whale" traced the humorous vicissitudes through which the stranded corpse of a whale finally found its way into the Christchurch Museum owing to the energy and foresight of the late Edgar Stead. The owners of the whale, who had hoped for up to £1000 for their find, ended with £20. There must be many such stories which could be profitably
resurrected,
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 805, 24 December 1954, Page 12
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181Goats and Whales New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 805, 24 December 1954, Page 12
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