‘FORCE IF NECESSARY’

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 8, 4 October 1935, Page 8

‘FORCE IF NECESSARY’

Reported Decision By Returned Soldiers A BROADCAST BAN By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, October 3. A determination to use force if necessary was expressed last night at a Town Hall benefit concert for returned soldiers in order to prevent interference with the broadcasting of the “Diggers’” session from the Friendly Road Station, IZB. Mr. Rod Talbot, a radio speaker, who entertains returned soldier patients at various hospitals and institutions, said there were rumours that he was to be banned from the air. first, because he gave a controversial talk on war. secondly, because he invited a member of Parliament to speak during his session; and thirdly, because be had appealed for funds for charity over the air. If the Government or the Broadcasting Board interfered with his session he had the assurance of the Auckland R.S.A. executive that the troops would not tolerate interference and would back him up to a man. “A number of troops will come to the studio during the session and prevent the possibility of interference,” said Mr. Talbot. Mr. Talbot’s statement was endorsed this morning by the president of the Auckland R.5.A... Mr. J. IV. Kendall. If necessary, he said, the executive would endeavour to obtain the support of every soldiers’ association in New Zealand.