STATE SUPREME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1936, Page 10

STATE SUPREME.

CONTROL OF BROADCASTING.

WARNING SOUNDEP. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.* WELLINGTON, Tuesday. Speaking on broadcasting '-in the House to-night, Colonel J. Hargest (National, Awarua) said there was nothing that was required to make broadcasting more attractive that could not be done under the present system of control' and management. The bill provided for State control to a degree not approached in any other part of the Empire, with the possible exception of Canada, where the former Prime Minister had declared that the system of State control had not been a success. Could the Prime Minister, he asked, tell the House of any time when the Press had not been fair .to him ? The

Opposition believed that the Press had been fair to both the Opposition and the Government during the session. Column after column in the newspapers was devoted to speeches by of the Labour party, and he did not think any newspaper in New Zealand had been unfair to Labour speakers.

Mr. D. McDougall (Independent, Mataura) said that the previous Government had had the whole of , the Press behind it, and also all the "gold tabs," the "skin-flints" and the institutions known'as the "Kelly gangs." He claimed that the speeches of members were mutilated by the Tory Press of the Dominion. He disagreed with Mr. Coates that the Independents in the House had had more time over the air than they were entitled to. The Opposition, he declared, was wasting the time of the House. Every Independent member was in on a majority vote, and that was .more than the two leaders of the National party could say.