BANNED AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 75, 29 March 1934, Page 10

BANNED AGAIN

KRISHNAMURTI BROADCAST

"CONTROVERSIAL MATTER"

(By TelegrapS.— Press Association.) . AUCKLAND, March 2S. As a result of a veto.by the Post and Telegraph Department late this . afternoon, a proposed broadcast from the "Friendly Road" station, IZB, of this evening's address in the Town Hall by Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Indian philosopher, had to bo abandoned. The Broadcasting Board had previously declined a.proposal that Mr. Krishnamurti should broadcast from station IYA. The director of IZB, the Key. C. G. Serimgeour, stated that after perusing the matter of Mr. Krishnamurti Js address he had considered he would be quite justified in giving the facilities of the station for a broadcast. The question was submitted in the-morning to' the acting district radio inspector, who. read the; manuscript and then stated that he wished to consult ■•■ his superiors in AVellington. ■ •■■'.'■■ ■ A commencement was made with installing a relay line to the Town Hall, but at 4.45 p.m. the station was notified by the inspector that the broadcast had been' banned- because the draft of the address.contained controversial matter. "Personally, I am very disappointed," said Mr. Serimgeour. "Mr. Krishnamurti has an international reputation, arid I do not see how any harm could come from allowing him to broadcast, as - he has done in Australia and in other countries. New Zealand listeners may surely be given credit for forming a just, opinion upon what they hear over the air and not accepting- everything without question."