New Zealand Press Has Been Cool

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 24, 21 December 1934, Page 14

New Zealand Press Has Been Cool

But Dunedin Slum Story Gets Applause Abroad The author of "Children of the Poor," the Dunedin slum story which was reviewed in the ‘"‘Radio Record’: of December 14, still prefers to remain anonymous, but ina letter to the Editor of the "Radio Record" he says: The extracts from your review of "Children of the Poor" were Well qualified to excite attention. The New Zealand newspapers have been cool with the exception of the "New Zealand Herald," "Radio Record, "Truth," "Worker" and "Free Lance." But the great New York .dailies were generous and lavish in space, the: British radical papers -generous, the Tory papers a line or two. This morning I am in receipt of a "magnificeac page and a half from "Het Volk," 9 Dutch paper witb a very large circulation. | They set up the review with four splendid illustrations, In literary rather than reader circles the book has been warmly welcomed, The reader takes time {0 reach. It is questionable whether aq first book from New Zealand has ever received simul: taneous publication in New York ‘and Tiondon