BROADCASTS OF PARLIAMENT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22467, 30 July 1938, Page 20

BROADCASTS OF PARLIAMENT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir—The Rt. Hon. the Prime Minister is very fond just now of giving thanks to the Almighty for the broadcasting service, and for once I und that taxpayers in general throughout New Zealand can be in complete accord with him, as the wireless has, at last, brought home to us all the appalling waste of the country’s time and money that goes on in Wellington. Night after night for weeks past I have turned on the wireless in the hope of getting some insight into how our laws are made and how our country is governed, and with a few notable exceptions, I have got nothing but pure, unadulterated electioneering, the irrelevancy of which is so glaring that I am amazed that it is permitted by the Speaker, and the quality of which would do an injustice to a street corner soap-box, not to mention the House of Representatives. Reiterations of what the then Prime Minister did or said in 1923 and what the “Evening Insult" printed in 1904 appear to me to have nothing whatever to do with the subject under discussion, and as for "The Meanderings of McDougall,” well, words fail me. How our legislators themselves can sit through hours of this claptrap and still have the effrontery to draw their pay is more than I can understand, and I repeat that the taxpayers are indeed indebted to the wireless for showing them just how their money is being wasted in this pre-election session.— Yours, etc., ' SWITCHING OFF. July 28, 1938.