A Strange Country
try, they do things differently there," L. P. Hartley somewhere remarks, and certainly conducted tours to it often expose one to the rigours or ennui of tourism, Not so, however, Celia and Cecil Manson’s programme "The Earthquake of 1848" (first of the series Nature in Four Moods, from 2YC on Thursdays and Sundays), which made our journey to the past an invigorating and rejuvenating experience. Here was young Wellington, sustaining with a fortitude like Mr. Brown’s of London Town a series of disasters that sent Lt.-Governor Eyre to pen "drivelling prognostications of devastation and gloom," and Aucklanders to dig into their waistcoat pockets. Some thundering editorials were read slightly tongue-in-€yeek by Briton Chadwick. And we latter-day Wellingtonians felt rather like parents regarding with fondness, amusement and paternal pride the vigour and self-importance of young Wellington. pe past is a strange coun-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 10
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144A Strange Country New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 812, 18 February 1955, Page 10
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