SPACIOUS EDWARDIAN DAYS
Sir,-Although I enjoyed the NZBS Clara Butt. broadcast, the reference to the "Spacious Edwardian Days" of low income taxes and general jollification found no nostalgic echoes with me. I lived those days and remember them as the days of the Daily News Sweated Industries Exhibition, of General Booth’s "Darkest England" revelations, of Stewart Grey’s "Hunger Marches," of the "Save the Children" appeal for the children of the South Wales coal miners. Those were the days of opulence and wretched poverty; of society play boys and human industrial scrap-heaps. In short, days which in these days of an enlightened social consciousness I thank God are no more.
ARTHUR
CLARK
(Taupaki)-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 11
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112SPACIOUS EDWARDIAN DAYS New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 919, 22 March 1957, Page 11
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