NO REAL FREEDOM.
RADIO FACILITIES. MR. S. G. SMITH CRITICAL. (From Our Correspondent.) PALMERSTON NORTH, Monday. A statement that freedom of the air was not a reality and that the National party was not getting a fair share of time from broadcasting station*, was , made by Mr. S. G. Smith. M.P. for New Plymouth, when speaking in Palmerston North. He aroused a chorus of protests from a noisy section of the I -audience when he reiterated that the i position at the present time was far from fair. "Apart from any controversy, any unbiased person who looks into the position must agree that the state of affairs is quite unsatisfactory," said Mr. Smith. "We have YA stations and B stations and their race for supremacy - . The stations belong to the people, who pay their fees. Apart altogether from the broadcasting of Parliament —and as much as I think it is a tremendous struggle to listen to it, when we get back in November we will not discontinue the broadcasting of Parliament— the National party is not getting fair treatment as far as broadcasting is concerned."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 16
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NO REAL FREEDOM.
Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 192, 16 August 1938, Page 16
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