Radio Station Jamming
Director Replies to Former Minister
EIGHT OF FREEDOM OF SPEECH ADVOCATED
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Suuday, 7.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 12.
The Sunday Sun publishes comment by Rev. C. G. Serimgcour on tho explanation by Mr. A. Humilton (former New Zealand Postmaster-General) on the jamming of the “Friendly Road” radio station.
Mr. Serimgcour says: “I did enter into polities and make no apology for it, but it was only ou the issue of the Government’s radio policy, and that alone. A year before the last election I placed the wholo matter before the Government and appealed to them lo alter their policy. I suggested that, as their attitude was so entirely against public interest, the question must eventually become a political issue.
“The late Postmaster-General’s confession explains the reason for the stupid explanations made by his departmental officers, and it indicates tho length to which certain political parties will go to achicvo their eiuls. I resent this last attempt to brand me us a propagandist of dangerous ideas. All I advocated was the Britisii right of freedom of speech.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 10, 13 January 1936, Page 7
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184Radio Station Jamming Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 10, 13 January 1936, Page 7
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