SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 9 November 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

BUSES GET TO TOI Dear Sandy: Fitzherbert, Totara and To! Are now within the pale, For the good old Greyhound Buses Have broken another trait The day was not propitious; Rain in buckets came, Yet they braved the floods of Toi: That street without a drain! Where flags waved in their honour And a banner welcome gave. To this newest, form of transport Our weary legs to save. Now, it's for us in whose service They are giving this a trial, So rally round the Buses And make it worth their while. —Let's Try. IS PRIVAC Y THREATENED? Television is all very well, but it there not a danger that if will go too far? Is there not a possibility that people in one suburb will be able to, well, spy upon th? people of another? Castlecliff doesn’t want Saint. John's to know what its standard of living is, what, it has for breakfast, when it has to mow the lawns, how much liquor it serves at meals, if any. Television is all very well so long as it is confined to. say, race meetings, Rugby matches, rowing contests — [sports fixtures in general; but if it is to be widened, and people can obtain “two-way” television sets enabling them to “televise ’ anybody they want, to, then we can expect trouble. Fancy the beer drinkers’ fraternity being able to “televise” the prohibitionists, or vice versa. Imagine the National Party “looking in” on a Labour Party caucus, or Labour having a peep at National. What grave danger there would be of coalescence. If television ever does come to the Totalisator Isles it will have to bo rigidly controlled. Either that or the scientists will have to find some sort of “anti-television” shield to keep prying eyes from prying too far. At the moment a good solid mountain range in one s backyard is something of a shield. A big mountain range was discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean the other day. Maybe those who fear that their privacy is threatened by television will agitate to have that bulldozed up on to dry land.