RADIO LICENSE FEE
BIG POST-WAR SPENDING Contemplated expansion of the broadcasting facilities in New Zealand which would have been completed by now but for the intervention of the war. makes a reduction in the listeners' license fee impracticable for the time being, reports the Labour newspaper Standard. The Labour party conference sought a reduction in the fee, but after hearing the Minister in Charge of Broadcasting, Mr. Wilson, and the Minister of Finance, Mr. Nash, it was decided not to press for the reduction but to refer the matter to the Government for consideration. Mr. Wilson told the conference that the total estimated cost of expansion to be undertaken after the war was £1,346.000, and to this could be added a further £200,000 for experimental purposes if New Zealand intended to introduce television. He thought it was sound policy to keep the fee at its present level and thus provide adequately for post-war development.
Mr. Nash pointed out that if the fee was lowered now it would have to be raised again when the post-war development scheme was put in hand.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 106, 6 May 1943, Page 6
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181RADIO LICENSE FEE Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 106, 6 May 1943, Page 6
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