“Man-In-Street” Broadcast

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 270, 11 August 1938, Page 13

“Man-In-Street” Broadcast

Sir, —I am very glad to see from correspondence in the Press that others beside myself were disgusted with the tirade about party politics delivered over the air from 2ZB last Sunday night in place ot the service which is supposed to be heard at 7 p.m. on a Sunday night. ’One is getting used to hearing amazing, language used by people in public positions, but the example set is shockingly bad and is only a forerunner of the upheavals taking place all over the world to-day. Ot course we could all turn our radios oft, but why should we?—l am, Wellington, August 9.

Sir, —After reading in this, morning s “Dominion” the paragraphs of “Elector and “Lyall Bay Listener,” I must air my views on the matter. I was not disgusted, as were a tew others, at this so-called “outburst’ from the Rev. Mr. Scrimgeour, because never has the said- gentleman been allowed to use any column of the Press to defend himself against the “unmitigated liars who are never content unless maliciously pulling someone to pieces. In my opinion, and also in the opinion of many other®, <4 Uncle S<?rim (under the circumstances) did not say anything out of place in his broadcast on Sunday evening between 7 and 7.45 p.m.—l am, etC ” FAIR PLAY. [The columns of “The Dominion” have always been open to the Controller of Commercial Broadcasting, as they are to any person who has been subject to published criticism and desires to reply to it.]