Two Soccer Tests To Be Televised

Press, Volume C, Issue 29521, 24 May 1961, Page 12

Two Soccer Tests To Be Televised

(New Zealand Press Association/

WELLINGTON. May 23. Films of England-New Zealand soccer internationals will be shown on Channel 2. Auckland's television station, next month. The tests, in Wellington, on June 5, and Auckland on June 10, will be telecast on June 8 and 12 respectively. The New Zealand Football Association gave permission tonight for televising the matches. A message from Auckland says people with strong views of the quality of television programmes and commercials will have a chance to air them next week, at a public meeting called by the Television Society of New Zealand. “Amount of Violence” "Although the Broadcasting Service is doing a good job in many ways, most of our members are unhappy about the amount of violence on television, and the untimely intrusion of commercials into programmes,” said the president of the society, Mr R. B Waddell, today. “One of our members counted 37 people shot on television on one Saturday night, and some other nights are almost as bad. Some of the action is particularly brutal.—even women are bee'en up "We think that our society can act in the public interest.

by keeping a watch on the standards of television in New Zealand.”

The meeting will be held in Auckland on Wednesday, May 31

In the meantime the Government caucus committee on television continued its sitting in Wellington today and heard further representations. The views of the Association of New Zealand Advertisers, R. J. Kerridge. Ltd., the New Zealand Radio and Television Wholesalers' Federation, the “Evening Post” and “Dominion” newspapers, the Inter-Church Council on Public Affairs and of Mrs Christine Cole, a New Zealander who has worked with television in Indonesia were heard.

Further submissions to be heard tomorrow will bring total of submissions made to the committee up to 40

The committee, which consists of the Minister of Broadcasting and PostmasterGeneral (Mr Kinsella), the Under-Secretary to the Minister of Industries and Commerce 'Mr Taiboys), Mrs E. Tombleson (Gisborne). Mr A. E Allen (Franklin), and Mr D. N. Mackay (Marsden), is not expected to have been able to consider the submissions in time to make concrete recommendations to Thursday’s or Friday’s meeting of the National Party caucus.