BROADCASTING SERVICES
DEBATE ON AMENDING BILL
"HOUSE SITS THROUGH THE NIGHT
OPPOSITION'S STUBBORN FIGHT
Urgency for the second reading of the Broadcasting Amendment Bill was taken in the House of Representatives at 4.10 o'clock yesterday afternoon and it was not until 2.10 o'clock this morning that the measure entered the Committee stage. In the long intervening period every conceivable aspect of broadcasting was debated, the principal topics being the commercial service, the appointment of the Controller of Commercial Broadcasting (Mr. C. G. Scrimgeour), and the jamming of station IZB, Auckland, in November, 1935. An unsuccessful attempt was made by the Opposition to hold up the Bill until a Royal Commission had investigated the whole position. Other proposed amendments in Committee met with the same fate and the closure was applied on the discussion on the short title. Despite a stubborn fight by the Opposition, the Bill emerged from Committee unaltered at 4.40 a.m. and the House adjourned until 10.30 a.m. today.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 6
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161BROADCASTING SERVICES Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 6
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