RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30976, 4 February 1966, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

TRIAL BY ORDEAL

It Is to be hoped that the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission is made fully aware of what it has done in allowing the recent broadcast of a radio item from Perth in which it was stated that a television news reader there had a moth fly into his mouth, and manfully struggled on with his task, in the process swallowing the moth. The item said that next day the authorities had raised his status by one grade. An obvious case of gallantry in action,

The implication is clear, New Zealand television announcers would tell you, almost certainly, that they are badly paid and that if there was an opportunity for advancement they would dearly love to swal- ' low a moth or two. But human nature being what it is, a moth swallower would soon become eommonplace, so the prospect is for more arresting feats of arms to be performed, Would it be possible to read the news while swallowing a sword? Or bal-

andnt a ball on the tip of the nose? Or fighting a fire? Not that news readers are likely to be alone in the field. The women announcers would undoubtedly figure somewhere in any such development. Imagine one of those charming young women with a mouse running round her neck and over her head: that surely would be worth promotion. Unless it caused chaos and complaint from women viewers.