BROADCAST BANS
MR. FORBES'S COMMENTS
(By Telegraph.— Press Association ) . CHBISTCHURCH, March 30. His attitude to controversial and advertising broadcasts was- given by the Prime Minister • (the Et lion G W. Forbes) today. Mr. Forbes sai-1 that he would not comment specifically on the Krishnamurti or the Shaw epilogue prohibitions.
Up to the present, the Government has tried to keep (broadcasting in Now Zealand as clean as possible of. controversial matter as being distasteful to listeners," Mr. Forbes said. "The Broadcasting Board desires to keep broadcasting here on as popular lines as possible. A chief object is to keep it free of advertising matter, which is certainly not one of the entertaining features of broadcasting in other countries. "It seems, rather a misuse of broadcasting to hear intermittently through the programme that it is being heard through the courtesy of somebody or other's soap or pills. I feel the public of New Zealand, as a whole, endorse the endeavours to keep that sort of thing off the air here. "I don't know anything about Krislinamurti or his ideas."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 12
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177BROADCAST BANS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 12
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