FARMERS’ CRITICISM
BROADCASTING SERVICES NON-ESSENTIAL PROGRAMMES The national broadcasting services were the subject of strong criticism by delegates at a meeting of the Waikato Sub-Provincial District o± the New Zealand Farmers’ Union m Hamilton, support being given a mit from the Te Awamutu branch which set out, “That as a wartime economy measure the Government be urged to overhaul and rearrange the programmes of the national and commercial radio stations and eliminate much of the non-essential programmes with a view to reducing the number ©f stations on the air, and conserving electricity and diverting man-power to essential industries; also that the Government review the publication of the ‘New Zealand Listener,’ which could be reduced in size to a programme of events, and thus meet the paper shortage on an equal footing w it non-State publications; overhead control to be reduced to a minimum and commercial stations financed within themselves.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3139, 13 July 1942, Page 3
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