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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 100, 1 May 1933, Page 3

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■ i_* RADIO BROADCASTS. PROFESSOR'S PROTEST. "SAILING TOO CLOSE TO WIOTB" (By Telegraph.—Press CHRISTCHURVIT, IMb day. The opinion that the censorship of broadcast addresses in New Zealand by unqualified persons was absurd was expressed by Professor J. Shelley at a meeting of the Imperial Culture Society. Recently, he said, a university lecturer's address was cut off, the explanation by the announcer, being, "I thought you were sailing too close to the wind." "And that," said Professor Shelley, "was said to a university lecturer by a man whose only qualification for speaking was a clear voice for the announcing of the price of cabbages.". TOO CONTROVERSIAL. LABOUR LEADER'S COMPLAINT (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Sunday. Speaking at the opening'of'the-In-dustrial: Exhibition in the Drill Hall yesterday, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. H. E. Holland, said he had been informed that the Broadcasting Board had announced that it would not broadcast any portion of his speech that was of a controversial character. The board had made it a condition that ,if his speech was to be broadcast he must not criticise the Ottawa agreement or touch on any other controversial subjects. As a matter of fact, said Mr. Holland, he could not help making reference •. to controversial matters; - indeed,. no- speech could be broadcast to-day that:was not controversial. The Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates had repeatedly broadcast speeches every paragraph of which, Mr. Holland claimed, was controversial, and if the Broadcasting Board. followed out what it stated was its policy in the speaker's case, no speech would ever be broadcast in New Zealand. He considered, all- Government pronouncements should be broadcast,'and he thought all utterances from the Opposition side of the House, should also be allowr.d to go over the air, so' that people might hear both sides' of' a question.