FUTURE OF BROADCASTING

Evening Star, Issue 20876, 20 August 1931, Page 8

FUTURE OF BROADCASTING

COMPANY'S PROPOSALS UNPALATABLE [Per Psiteb Press Association.] WELLINGTON, August 20. A combined meeting of the Wellington branch of the Radio Listeners’ League and the local radio section of the New Zealand Electrical Federation was held ycrterday, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:— _ “This combined meeting, representative of radio listeners and of radio trading licensees, the two sections which provide all the finance under the radio broadcasting scheme, having considered the proposals made by the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand for the future control of broadcasting, unanimously resolves to express its entire disapproval of the scheme suggested by the company, as published in the Press on August 17, and, to call upon the Government to reject the scheme in its entirety, to oppose any for_ future control of broadcasting which involves the inclusion of any element of private ownership.” The meeting further resolved that the only satisfactory system ;of control would bo an independent hoard of control set up by the Government on the lines of the British Broaoasting Corporation. Further resolutions were that the questions of special representation on any proposed board of control he left to be considered by the sectional interests, if by them thought advisable; and that, in the event of the Government being found to he at variance with the principle embodied in the resolutions, the meeting pledged itself to organise its forces to fight for its cause in any manner considered expedient and proper.