Decision on shortwave service ‘disastrous’
Spa Wellington £? The Government’s decision to axe the Broadcasting Corjjjporation’s Pacific Islands % shortwave service was one of J* its most disastrous, Labour’s >4 shadow minister of foreign affairs, Mr F. D. O’Flynn, has A* said. Speaking during the broad--casting estimates, he said Jjthat when he was recently in *5-the Cook Islands it was possible to hear Australian radio *'“on the hour every hour” ■J whereas the B.C.N.Z.’s
“Morning Report” was all that was available from New Zealand. The problem was also apparent in Australia where New Zealanders were “starved”. of New Zealand news services. “We are beginning to fall out of sight. If the Government discontinues these services we are liable to be left out altogether,” Mr O’Flynn said. He called on the Govern-
ment to restore funding for the Pacific Islands service as soon as possible. Earlier this year the Government announced that as part of the three per cent cost-cutting exercise funding for the service would be dropped from the corporation’s vote. Since then the corporation has continued the service, which costs $lBO,OOO a year, pending a final decision on its future.
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