BANNED FROM AIR

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 8

BANNED FROM AIR

Auckland B-class Station A SERIOUS VIEW TAKEN By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, June 9. A request for the continuation of the transmitting license of the B-class radio station IZR until an inquiry has been held into the circumstances which led to the closing of the station on Thursday evening has been refused by the Postmaster-General, the Hon. A. Hamilton. A telegram received from the Minister to-day by Lewi' Eady Ltd., proprietors of the station, said the information which led to the action taken by him was so serious that he regretted it was impossible for him to grant the request. A letter sent to the Minister by the firm to-night set out the facts of the case as viewed by the station, and asked that Immediate reconsideration be given to the original request to allow the transmission to be resumed pending a thorough and Impartial Investigation of all matters involved in the complaint. The letter requesting the cessation of transmission was from the Post and Telegraph Department at Auckland. It read: “I am directed by my head office to inform you that, in view of your disregard of radio regulations and the conditions under which sponsored programmes may be transmitted, and of the warnings issued from time to time in connection with such failures, the Minister has now decided to suspend the license of IZR. It is therefore requested that transmission cease forthwith.”