Sam Pollock
NEW ZEALANDER is something » of a gate-crasher when he listens to Sam Pollock’s News from Home oh Sunday mornings, since it is directed specifically to settlers from Britain. How his reputation stands with that audience I don’t know, but I like to listen. I like the oddities of the man-bites-dog sort with which he fills the spare cornets of his talk, but I mostly like the longer consideration he gives nearly every week to some aspect of the way life goes on in Britain. I sus-
pect him to be both informed and balanced. Local listeners may be surprised at the time he gives to trade union matters. His attitude to unions is neither that they are, or ought to be, the Nursery of Progress, nor that they are Not Quite Nice. He regards them as a power in the land whose policies are for that reason worth knowing about and understanding. He may have some personal reason for this interest, but it does seem more widespread in Britain than here. The influence of trade unions 4s exerted rather differently in New Zealand, but it is surely not less significant; yet they are seldom mentioned on our radio unless there is a spectacular strike and the notice given their affairs in the newspapers is elementary.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 943, 6 September 1957, Page 8
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217Sam Pollock New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 943, 6 September 1957, Page 8
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