Interference With 1ZB

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1935, Page 8

Interference With IZB

“UNCLE SCRIM” ON THE WARPATH

EVASION AND FALSEHOOD ALLEGED.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Last Night.

A statement by Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour was broadcast from IZB to-night by a member of the staff. Extracts from it are as follow:—“It may be considered by many that this is merely a matter which rests with the department, but the police now have it in hand and it will be expected that the persons responsible for the instructions being given as well as those carrying out the outrage ■will be prosecuted.

“Mr McNamara’s statement that the interference was purely accidental will be immediately discounted by those who are acquainted with the facts. In my opinion it is utter rubbush. There are too many coincidences in • the whole matter for even myself, whose aim is always to see what good there is in everybody.

“If this matter had been accidental, why should every official have obstructed the investigations and by evasion and falsehood endeavour to mislead us. One after another the Post and Telegraph departmental officers contradicted each other. The man who was in charge of the radio department in Auckland stated to me in front of Mr Coates that the radio apparatus in this shed was a short-wave receiving set erected for the purpose of getting football results, and when he found a powerful transmitter, can anyone blame us for thinking that something exceedingly sinister had taken place? “If this was an accident and the department had nothing to hide why this campaign of secrecy and evasion? We make no bones about holding the Post and Telegraph Department, including those high officials, guilty of interference with a broadcast which would have caused no one any offence. We leave it to listeners to judge for themselves.”