OFFER TO BUY B STATIONS
GOVERNMENT CHARGED WITH BREAKING PLEDGE (FOXSS ABSOCIATIOV TZLEQEAM.) AUCKLAND, April 21. After a special meeting to-day the executive of the United Listeners' Club issued a statement that the club viewed with concern the failure of the Government to honour its pre-election pledges to B stations. Both written and repeated verbal utterances of the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and his colleagues, it was stated, had assured listeners" that justice would be done to the B stations. "The truth is that after 16 months no subsidy or assistance has been given in accordance with the Government's election pledges'," the statement continues, "and it now appears that an attempt is being made to eliminate them by Government purchase. This method of dealing with a major issue of the 1935 General Election is exhausting the patience of listeners. "The United ' Listeners' Club asserts that the Government has no mandate from the electors to make broadcasting a State monopoly, and we are fully in agreement with the Hastings Chamber of Commerce that the Government should buy out no B station until the opinion of listeners is obtained,"
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22073, 22 April 1937, Page 8
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