Objection to quango loss
PA Wellington The Broadcasting Corporation has expressed surprise at the decision to abolish the Communications Advisory Council. The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Palmer, announced the move when he released a list of 56 quasi- autonomous non - governmental organisations, or quangos, to be axed. The chief executive of
the 8.C.N.Z., Mr Nigel Dick, said any announcement of the council’s future was premature. “Its future has been discussed in detail before the Royal Commission on Broadcasting, which is yet to report,” Mr Dick said. “A number of witnesses at the commission, including the 8.C.N.Z., praised the council’s past work and suggested an increased role for it in the future.” If the council were
abolished it could only increase pressure for a Ministry of Communications, he said. "In that case a useful, small, and not very expensive quango will have been killed so that a new expensive bureaucracy can be put in its place.” The corporation would ask the Government to reconsider its 10-month advance death notice for the council.
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