SOUTH ISLAND NOT MENTIONED

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 8

SOUTH ISLAND NOT MENTIONED

PROTEST AT RECENT BROADCASTS

Lack of mention of the South Island in recent radio broadcasts by Viscount Addison and the American commentator, Norman Corwin, was criticised by the council of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce at its meeting last evening. The president (Mr E. T. Beaven) said the executive felt that, particularly in the case of Norman Corwin, who was listened to considerably in the United States, a golden opportunity for publicising the South Island was lost by its. exclusion from his talk. Mr Beaven added that a protest therefore had been sent to the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) and a letter had been sent to the City Council’s public relations officer (Mr T. H. Langford) asking that protests be organised from the expansion and development committee and the South Island Travel Association. Mr J. R. Dench said that there was some excuse for Lord Addison, as he was leader of the House of Lords and had been recalled to Britain, but the Government should have brought him down to the South Island. “In Wellington they should be reminded that we are only an hour away, and Christchurch is more accessible than some suburbs of Wellington,” he added.

"If we sit down to these things we will be allowed to take them,” said Mr Dench. “We should protest on every occasion.”