Is Mr Savage Abusing Radio? Supreme Court Injunction Move

Northern Advocate, 30 September 1938, Page 9

Is Mr Savage Abusing Radio? Supreme Court Injunction Move

[Per Press Association. Copyright. ] WELLINGTON, This Day. TTIS INTENTION TO ISSUE A WRIT OF INJUNCTION THROUGH THE SUPREME COURT TO RESTRAIN THE PRIME MINISTER, MR SAVAGE, FROM WHAT HE TERMED ABUSE OF POWER IN CONNECTION WITH BROADCASTING IN THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN WAS ANNOUNCED BY MR W. APPLETON, NATIONAL CANDIDATE FOR WELLINGTON CENTRAL. WHEN HE SPOKE LAST NIGHT.

Mr Appleton said the Prime Minister was committing a breach of trust in his handling of broadcasting for political purposes.

1 “There is really no Parliament i’n existence new,” said the speaker. “The j Dominion is run by the Executive Council, which holds no legislative powers whatever, except those delegated under Statutes, which arc purely administrative. It is not a question at all as to the numbers of members in the last House of Parliament, because it is new a dead House. Every section of the community is entitled to its fair share of privileges, and, as a new candidate, I claim I am just as much entitled to the use of the air as Mr Savage himself. (Cheers). “I am going to- demand my right. So satisfied am I as to the constitutional position that I am instructing my solicitors to take immediate steps to issue a writ of injunction through the Supreme Court to restrain the Prime Minister from abusing his powers, as he undoubtedly is doing, under the present circumstances. Wo shall see what the Supreme Court has to say about it.” Mr Appleton’s announcement was greeted with applause by a large section of the audience.