B STATION SOLD TO STATE
DECISION OF DIRECTORS OF IZM MANUREWA
DISTINCTIVE SERVICE TO BE MAINTAINED
(rBKSS A.SSOCUTIOH TBLESBAK.) AUCKLAND, July 5. Station 12M Manured, Which for the last four ysars has been financially supported by the "Auckland Star, has been purchased by the Government. As it has been impossible to obtain an assurance that any reasonable subsidy towards the increasing cost of maintaining the station would be granted, the directors concluded that the only way to secure the continuance oi i7M's service to listeners Was to dispS of Us interests to the Governm This course was followed only after obtaining an assurance from the Minister that it was the intention of tn Government to maintain the station under the direction of Mr W. W. Rodgers, and that such a type of programme would b? tran-miued as woulc, make it retain its individuality and its popularity with the listening public. .
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22137, 6 July 1937, Page 10
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