“THE FRIENDLY ROAD”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 288, 6 December 1933, Page 6

“THE FRIENDLY ROAD”

-pH E mass meeting of radio listeners in Auckland, who loregathered for the purpose of urging on the Government the policy of granting facilities for the continuance of the spiritual service known as “The Friendly Road,’’ an undcmoninational radio effort, speaks wel] for both those who provide the service known as “The Friendly Road,” and those who enjoy it. One of the most delightful functions of “The Friendly Road” is the correspondence side of this activity. Listeners-in who desire to write to those who conduct this feature may do so, and are sure to receive a kindly and well-constructed reply. When the term “well constructed” is used, it applied not only in a literary sense, but also in the sense that sound advice and generous sympathy are forthcoming-. Modern civilisation tends Io become at one and the same time, for the individual, a condition of easier communication, but also of increasing insularity. The old associations of homelife are broken for many by the fact that, the necessity ot earning a living requires that they remove from the home circle and take up their residence at some distant, part of the country. Friends are made easily, but intimacy is hard to establish, and when the time comes that consolation is an absolute need it is hard to find. “The. Friendly Road” has done much in providing that need which has become increasingly felt by so many people, and it is for this reason that it is to be hoped that the Government will not bar its work in the future.