RADIO BROADCASTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25329, 31 October 1947, Page 5

RADIO BROADCASTS

Sir, —New Zealanders are very fond of expounding their theories as to how the people of the rest of the world should manage their affairs, but are evidently little interested in hearing explanations of the facts by those who in close touch with such affairs. Thus the British Broadcasting Corporation radio newsreel has been cut out several times to make way for Rugby commentaries, though results and commentaries had already been broadcast several times. It would apparently never do to let a single individual miss a point about football, whatever the United Nations may be up to. And on Sunday the power was cut off in the middle of the most interesting item of the whole week, the talk on world affairs. Presumably the Municipal Electricity Department knew there would be an outcry if other items were interrupted, so pitched on something which few would be bothered to listen to. —Yours, etc., LISSARDA. October 20, 1947. [Mr E. Hitchcock, general manager of the Municipal Electricity Department, said it was not possible to explain the occurrence referred to by the correspondent without more detailed information.] ,