PRESS V. RADIO

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 11

PRESS V. RADIO

VISITOR'S COMMENT

"WASTED ON THE WIND"

"The printed word remains but the radio message is wasted on the wind," said the Tasmanian Treasurer and Deputy-Premier (the Hon. E. DwyerGray) today when commenting on the dissemination of news in New„ Zealand. He had faith in the continued power of the Press for the expression of public opinion.

Mr. Dwyer-Gray, who has been in New Zealand-studying conditions since January 2, left by the Wanganella for Sydney this afternoon and expects to arrive at Hobart next Saturday.

While in New Zealand, said Mr. Dwyer : Gray, he had studied the works of man rather than the works of Nature. He had been particularly interested in the broadcasting of news, but he was satisfied that the Press would remain the greatest vehicle in that field. As a newspaperman he knew the value of the Press, and as a politician he knew how the newspapers could fight against some things, but he was still satisfied^that the power of the Press must remain paramount.

Mr. Dwyer-Gray said that .he had been greatly interested in what was being done for the unemployed in New Zealand. In Australia there was a tendency to. treat the unemployed as unemployable; in New Zealand they were treated as men who' should be helped into jobs.. He would have great pleasure in reporting to the Inter-State Labour Conference at Perth in May what he had seen of social work in New Zealand.