Freedom Of Air Wanted
[Per Press Association. Copy right J WELLINGTON, This Day.
“This incident is only one of many that proves the undesirability of Ministerial control of broadcasting,” said the Dominion President of the Farmers’ Union, Mr._ W. W. Mulholland, in his address yesterday.
He was referring to the evidence given on behalf of the Farmers’ Union before the Social Security Committee, which, he said, was considered of such importance by the Government, that the Prime Minister thought it necessary in the 7 o’clock wireless broadcast from his department on the evening of the day following the delivery of the Farmers’ Union evidence to broadcast a considerable part of Mr J. Roberts’ evidence. This evidence was a series of eulogiums, which were duly responded to by the Prime Minister, and other members of the Parliamentary Committee, who in their turn, congratulated Mr. Roberts on his evidence all of which was broadcast as news. “Parliament should lay down certain definite principles and give the administration of them to an officer or board responsible only to Parliament, and as independent of the Government as the Judiciary. Today freedom of the air is an intergral part of free
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1938, Page 7
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