WHY NOT?

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 27

WHY NOT?

Since the announcement was made some months ago that the silent'night at the YA stations was to be abolished the official organ of the Broadcasting Company has been at pains to explain that no |such statement was ever made. Well, it must have been made by somebody, because where there is smoke there is fire, and it is idle to say that all rumours are as idle as a political "kite,", At any rate, assuming that no such promise was, made, is that any reason why the silent. night should not go speedily into oblivion? The Broadcasting Company must surely be 'in a strong enough financial. ..position by now to enable this reform to bo. introduced. If it is not, then let it say'so and produce figures as proof.. To allow the news that it has changed its mind on the subject to filter- out to some of the listening public through tho medium of a weekly periodical is not a very frank procedure The 8.8.C. at Homo, and the Commonwealth broadcasting authorities provido programmes seven days a week. Why not New Zealand? If the company cannot afford to pay for artists for the additional night', then let it put on records (not all jazz as wo get too much of that now of an. afternoon). The gramophone items would in any case give greater pleasure than "a visitor' from Bulawayo," or some other minor, village, who ho often obtrudes his or her- r talents" on poor, suffering humanity. Givo us more records, and givo thorn, on the silent night. If, however, this prison is to go, unasworea, vouchsafe unto us the reason for turning it down with a^ thud.—l:.am',"!etc, .-»-.-■•-•- ---' ' POOR CRYSTAL TJSEB.