CONTROL OF BROADCASTING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 222, 20 August 1931, Page 8

CONTROL OF BROADCASTING.

NEW PROPOSAL OPPOSED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 20. A combined meeting of the Wellington branch of the Radio Listeners’ League and the local radio section of the New Zealand Electrical Federation was held yesterday, when the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: That this combined meeting representative of the two sections which provide all the finance under the radio broadcasting scheme, having considered the proposals made by the Radio Broadcasting Company of New Zealand for the future control of broadcasting, unanimously resolves to express its entire disapproval of the scheme suggested by the company as published in the Press on August 17; to caff upon the Government to reject the scheme in its entirety; to oppose any scheme for the future control of broadcasting which involves the inclusion of any element of private ownership. The meeting further resolved that the only satisfactory system of control would be an independent board of control set up by the Government on the lines of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Further resolutions were: That questions of special representation on any proposed board of control be left to be considered by the sectional interests, if by them thought advisable; and that in the event of the Government being found to be at variance with the principle embodied in the resolutions the meeting pledges itself to organise its forces to fight for its cause in any manner considered expedient and proper.