BROADCAST REFUSED.
FARMERS' UNION ADDRESS.
« matter not suitable."
KEEN RESENTMENT EXPRESSED.
" INSULT TO INTELLIGENCE."
A storm of protest against the refusal of the Radio Broadcasting Company to broadcast an address by Mr. C. C. Munro, ex-president of the Auckland provincial branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, was raised at the meeting of the executive last evening.
Mr. H. M. Rushworth, after explaining that the company had asked for an address by Mr. Munro, and then refused to use it, read a letter from the Postmaster-General, who had been asked whether he, too, endorsed the refusal. "I beg to inform you that the matter contained in the address is regarded as not suitable for broadcasting," was the reply of the Postmaster-General.
Mr. Rushworth said that in view of the careful preparation of the address, whit*h contained much valuable matter of interest to the community, he deemed the Postmaster-General's reply unsatisfactory.
"A clergyman who recently was a passenger on a liner to New Zealand, and who heard some of the matter broadcast by the company, described it as so much 'froth,' " said Mr. Munro. Affirming that his proposed address had been quite moderate, he observed, "we wftuld like to know what are the facilities for broadcasting in New Zealand ?" The chairman, Mr. A. A. Ross, said politics on the air were forbidden.
Mr. A. N. Macky: The company's action is an attempt to make the union "cheap" "and is an insult to the intelligence of the community. We are not a body of "noodles" and do not take that sort of thing lying down. Mr. Munro: It is worse than gagging the press, and we have heard enough about that.
When the matter of a further protest was under discussion, members suggested, "Go to the Government, tha Supreme Court, and 'vote Labour.' " Mr. W. Lee Martin: Every information is given the fanners in Queensland. Other members agreed the address had been useful as an economic treatise, and by no means objectionable from any point of view.
It was decided to inform the Postmas-ter-General that his reply was unsatisfactory, and to outline, for his benefit, the discussion of the evening. 4
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19717, 17 August 1927, Page 10
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