‘/‘Listeners-in do not want to hear politics over the air. Ninety-live poi cent, of them would turn on To some other station if a political speech were being broadcast,” said Mr, G. R. Russell, the Canterbury representative on the advisory council of the Now Zealand Broadcasting Board in voicing opposition to the claims of Mr. H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition, in his recent speech in Dunedin that controversial speeches should he allowed to be broadcast-. Mr. Russell said party politics had no place in /radio. The attitude of the Broadcasting Board had already been clearly defined. Listeners had their newspapers, which reported speeches, and if they were interested they could easily read them. The subject.might ho raised at a mooting of the .advisory council which was to ho held in Wellington, hub he did not thnk the council would be in favour of broadcasting controversial speeches. Our prices defy competition—A. W. J. Mann.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11945, 16 May 1933, Page 7
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