LISTENERS’ LEAGUE.

Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 21

LISTENERS’ LEAGUE.

TO THE BDITOIt. Sir, —After reading your report of the annual meeting of the Otago Radio Listeners’ League it is not at ail surprising that the great mass of listeners regard it with complete apathy, though I am convinced that our esteemed fellow citizen, Mr Tano Faina would find in the reported discussion much material for a further talk on New Zealand humour, however unconscious some of the speakers were that they vyere providing material for such a purpose. One speaker was convinced that we were going to have politics drilled into us unless we could stop it, although we have six broadcasting stations operating in Dunedin, only one of which will for a short time broadcast parliamentary debates, and eventually none at all. Another speaker thought that there wore too many dictators in New Zealand, who should be informed that they were the servants and not the masters of the people, overlooking the fact that for the first time in New Zealand’s history the people are masters of the situation now. and that the Right Hon. the Prime Minister, who has assumed 1 the portfolio of broadcasting, boars as little resemblance to a dictator as some of the Government’s predecessors boro to statesmen. The judgment of the speaker, who, like Micawber, was prepared to wait for a month or two for something to “ turn up,” believing that something would happen in broadcasting which would swell the depleted ranks of the league, may prove as unreliable as that of the executive who favoured mo with, one of their 300 or so special letters, believing quit© 1

erroneously that I would be interested in their activities when we have a Minister representing not merely the Otago Listeners’ League, but listeners generally throughout New Zealand.—l am, etc., Fully Refbksented. July 2. .