NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

Grey River Argus, 17 May 1946, Page 4

NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

OPPOSITION IN FAVOUR SAYS MR. HOLLAND. P.A. WELLINGTON, May 16. Any suggestion that the National Party, if returned to power, would abandon plans for the formation or a National Broadcasting Service Symphony Orchestra was unwanan.pci’. said the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. S. G. Holland to-night. Mr. Holland’s attention had been drawn to a report that the Prime Ministerhad told a Wellington deputation that he wanted “to get the orchestra started before the election so that should a new government come m the thing would be under way beyond recall.” Mr. Holland' said this account of what Mr. Fraser had said was given by Mr. Stanley Oliver, a Wellington musician, and might not represent what Mr. Fraser had meant,. However, Mr. Holland added, he was in favour of the establishment or an orchestra. The National Broadcasting Service had for years faileq to give listeners a service commensurate with the charge made for it.