CHURCH TELECASTS
PRESBYTERIANS CONSIDER EXPERIMENTS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Nov. 3. The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand is considering the preparation of experimental television broadcasts. This was announced at a meeting of the General Assembly in Wellington today. “The coming of television to this
country will be of vital importance to the Church,” said the Rev. A. J. Huston, convener of the visual education committee. “It is inextricably bound in with the work of evangelism.” The heavy financial burden involved in television production would probably make it impossible for any one denomination to present its own telecasts, said Mr W. R. Temple, convener of the broadcasting committee. “Here the pressure of civilisation is again dictating to us the urgent need for ecumenical thinking and united attack,” said Mr Temple. “We feel that at this stage the assembly might direct its broadcasting committee to take a first step and explore the possibilitv of a joint investigation of the problems which the churches will have to meet when television comes to New Zealand.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27498, 4 November 1954, Page 16
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