Junk
"THIS is the age of junk. Thousands of heaps of old motor-cars, perhaps only last year’s models, litter the indus-
trialised world from, no doubt, the frosty Caucasus to greater Auckland. We have almost reached the point where the latest, the newest, is obsolete as soon as it is made. And unlike the junk of former generations, it will not find its way to the second-hand marts of the world nor receive, by the changing of taste, a new value. These reflections are provoked by a fascinating BBC documentary I heard last week called Any Old Iron, a survey of London’s secondhand goods world. Their trade flourishes, it seems, as never before. Many proprietors of shops and stalls spoke in the programme, and the most remarkable thing about them was the uniformly cultured accent in which they discoursed on their trade. It has become a respectable, almost a dignified occupation. And why not? Because these markets are almost the last refuge of the individual craftsman; where the work of the guiding hand and eye is still treasured. More power to them, and more money to buyers.
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 952, 8 November 1957, Page 26
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189Junk New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 952, 8 November 1957, Page 26
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