The New Zealand Broadcasting Service (now the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation) has played its part in nurturing New Zealand drama, and each year sees more and more locally written plays being presented over the air. Among those writers who have made a reputation in radio drama, both here and elsewhere, are John Gundry, Bruce Stewart, David Yerex, John Dunmore, Ruth Park, and Douglas Stewart. Since 1958 substantial works by New Zealand authors have included John Dunmore's A Masque for Old Bones and The New Candide, An Occasion for Fireworks by S. Y. Ray, James K. Baxter's Jack Winter's Dream, Bruce Mason's The Pohutukawa Tree, The Exiled by Jean Lawrence, Allen Curnow's The Axe and the Overseas Expert, an adaptation of the Ruth France novel The Race, and The Tree by Stella Jones. In the year 1960 the Service could boast that it presented a local play every four weeks.

by Nola Leigh Millar, B.A., Director, New Theatre Company, Wellington.

• Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives, New Zealand Broadcasting Service Annual Report (F. 3 of each year)
• Music and the Stage in New Zealand, Hurst, M. (1943)
• Towards an Australian Drama, Rees, L. (1953).