Pleasantries That Pall
Sir,—The weather does a lot of things to different people,, but one common psychosis that the heat brings on many New Zealanders is an inherent desire to remark to me and my Asian friends as follows: (a)"warm enough for you?” or (b) “more like your kind of weather” or (c) “bit like the tropics, eh?" or (d)‘‘you’d be used to this, of course.” Stop, please, I say, before we all turn round and say “Cold enough for you mate?” in the middle of winter. We may come from the ■tropics, but we suffered neither the still, dry heat of the Canterbury plains nor the same stock remark about it.— Yours, etc., N. V. PRASAD. January 28, 1970.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32210, 31 January 1970, Page 10
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