BROADCASTING FACILITIES

Evening Star, Issue 23811, 15 February 1941, Page 12

BROADCASTING FACILITIES

USE FOR POLITICAL ADDRESSES PREMIER REPLIES TO NATIONAL LEADER [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON. February 14. Replying to-clay to the recent references by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr S. G. Holland) to the use of the broadcasting services, the Prime Minister (the Right Hon. P. Fraser) said there had been no uso made of the broadcasting services for political addresses since the termination of the last session of Parliament. The recent important address of the Minister of Finance (the Lion. W. Nash) in Dunedin was not on the air, said Mr Fraser. He said lie would be very pleased to arrange for Mr Holland, as Leader of the Opposition, to deliver a national service address or addressee over a roasuitable period, as his predecessor did some time ago, in support of the wareffort. Later on, when political controversy was unavoidable and more opportune than during the present acute crisis, he and members of tho Opposition would have ample and equitable opportunity of using the broadcasting system for airing their views. “fn fact,” Mr Fraser added, “ there is a groat pPtont benefit in encouraging them to do so.”