CHARGED £500.
COMMERCIAL BROADCASTS.
PATRIOTIC FUNDS APPEAL.
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.)
WELLINGTON, this day.
"If this is true then I think it is moßt improper," said Mr. Bodkin (Opposition— Central Otago) in the House of Representatives laett evening when commenting on a report to the effect that the Commercial Broadcasting Service bad charged the St. John Ambulance and the Red Cross the sum of £500 for putting their appeals for funds over the air.
The Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser) said the Commercial Broadcasting Service was approached on the same basis as the newspapers, and there was no more blame attachable to it than the newspapers. "I did not trouble to inquire what terms the newspapers gave," said Mr. Eraser, "but I am going (to assume that they acted in the moet generous manner possible. The whole Commercial Broadcasting Service was placed at the disposal of these organisations and what was the result? In Wellington £5000 was raised in two nights and Auckland raised the sum of £32,000. We must give credit where credit is due."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 180, 31 July 1940, Page 10
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