REPORT WANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 6

REPORT WANTED

";, QUESTION OF SAURIES ■ ''Expressing the opinion that it was -regrettable that the Broadcasting Report had not been placed before the "House, Mr. W. P. Endean (National, "Parnell) said this report would probably have been of. assistance ■" to * speakers in the debate. He added •"that he had been surprised to hear Carr say that if some of the „. things heard over the air were a trifle ;,risque, it had to be remembered that "this was a broadminded era The word *"' risque meant the suggestion of mde,Kcency or offending against propriety. "'jDid the Government, Mr. Endean asked, . ,;wish programmes of that nature to be 7, put over the air? It had to remember "that children were among the listeners, and care, should be takpn to see that ' wrong influences were not brought 'into their lives. ~' Mr. Endean said that had the ar- „,, langement originally made with the Controller of Commercial Broadcasting i^noX been stopped, he would have re"e'eived a salary of £500.a year, plus '!'?.'.£ 10,500 in commission. \ V., The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. _ v ;m. J. Savage): It was not stopped, ex,,rcept- at the request of the man con- . ■ •.,... 1-J- Mr. Endean added that in addition to "-4he Controller, the sales-manager in CJthe commercial service received a sal.,ary ri of £1500 ; a year. Nowhesre else - lO in New Zealand would so many man:.l agers be required to control a business. ■; ■ '-~•■ Referring to the jamming of the friendly Road radio station Before .the ""'election, Mr. Endean said he had Soften wondered whether this had not '^been a "frame up" by the member for J. Grey Lynn (Mr. J. A. Lee) and the - of Internal Affairs (the Hon. '~"W. E. Parry). ' '; '■:.'■''"l think the member for Grey Lynn '"knows more about it than he has told said' Mr. Endean. ' »'- Loud laughter from Mr. Lee became '^louder'still when Mr. S. G. Smith ""(National, New Plymouth) interjected f^hat the member for Grey Lynn was '" flushing. -v Mr. Endean said that if the Govern- ;; rnent would set up a Royal Commission ""and it could be proved, as had been ■"''wrongly said, that the Leader of the '"^Opposition, (the Hon. Adam Hamilton) '{"had been responsible for the jamming "'"'of 'the station, he would give £50 to .charity. His own opinion was that "Hv.'hen the truth came out it would be '? shown that Mr. Hamilton had nothing ;;''jo do..with what happened at the sta"lion. . ■ • - • ''•' Government voices: Why did he take the blame?. .... ... f. l# ;. Mr. Endean: He Ms a Very chivalrous ;i'gentleman;"' . . . : '■" Mr. Endean asked whether the Prime '^Minister had any arrangement with Mr. Scrimgeour prior to the election, that for services rendered he would be (..-.■given his reward by being appointed "'to take control of. radio advertising? J*He also asked whether Mr, Scrimgeour or anyone on his behalf had come to f^a'n" arrangement, with the Government Sjor any Minister, that the Radio Vision «1 Proprietary should be allowed to obfit.tain the Australian rights for advertisH ng -on 'the.'! New Zealand radio. U NO APOLOGY »> ■ '_ | MR. SAVAGE'S STAND k! " . ___