"RADIO ROADHOUSE"
Sir,-May I ask what is so very laughable about the recent inquiry into juvenile delinquency? The revelations con- ' tained in the report make it perfectly clear that there are many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of our young people who are quite cynical about the subject of sexual irregularities. And there will be more and more young people just like them so long as the National Broadcasting Service sees fit to permit speakers to make game of the subject as tlfey did over all YA stations in Radio Roadhouse on January 17. The state of affairs which caused the Government to set up the Commission of Inquiry was, without exaggeration, a national tragedy. As far as I know, the NZBS did not find anything particuiarly amusing in other national disasters. What, then, is so side-splitting in the subject of juvenile delinquency? Is our national attitude to be that physical annihilation is a subject to be treated with respect, but moral corruption merely the occasion for a flippant jest?
T.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 5
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170"RADIO ROADHOUSE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 5
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