Television

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29145, 4 March 1960, Page 3

Television

Sir, —lt is, so we are told, unwise to have a multitude of counsellors. The Minister of Broadcasting, it would appear, is in that unhappy position. Unable or unwilling to make up his mind about the establishment of television here in New Zealand he goes on issuing statements, most of which concern the activities of those muchmaligned folk, the disciples of private enterprise and the editors of our newspapers. When private enterprise offers to establish a television service Mr Boord becomes well-nigh panic-stricken and, like Dickens’s Fat Boy, endeavours to make our flesh creep. In addition to its corrupting our youth and forcing the country into bankruptcy, television will have, so we are told, an adverse effect on our Navy. They may be “a weird mob” but they specialise in common sense and I thought the comment of Sir Arthur Warner was simply priceless.— Yours, etc., ’ W.H.T. March 2, 1960.