BROADCASTING SERVICE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19889, 7 March 1928, Page 14

BROADCASTING SERVICE.

Sir, —In reply to the letter appearing in Tuesday's Herald over the signature of Mr. A. R. Harris, I would point out t'<at he does not state in what way I have misrepresented the circumstances of my dismissal from IYA. I still say that I have had no reasons given to me for such action. Mr. Harris has adopted an attitude which eliminates further comment on my part, but he still maintains silence upon the reasons for his action, except the vague statement that I was incompetent." If the contention, which Mr. Harris always so strongly urges, that the R.B.C. is a public company, whose only source of revenue is from licence fees, operating under the aegis 1 of the Government, and, therefore, having a definite measure of service due to such licensees, then it is surely his duty to disclose to the listeners the factors which led him to conclude that the interests of the broadcasting service demanded my dismissal. I understand that Mr. Harris has been invited to a public meeting of listeners to be held on March 19, and, in view of the fact that the licence fees are payable shortlv after that date, it would he at least politic, :f nothing else, for Mr. Harris to explain his action to this meeting. After all. distasteful though it may be. Mr. Harris cannot close his eves to the f.ict that the public are beginning to ask whether the incompetency does not rest with him and not with the large number of members of the staff whom he has seen fit to dispense with. What the answer to that onestion is one can hardly say, but this fact stands out plainly: that Mr. Harris is singularly incompetent when it comes to judging men prior to their becoming employees, for the changes in staff since IYA opened have become notorious. Perhaps the long list of employees mentioned over-appreci-ated the "service" they were supposed- to render. Who knows ? Trevor W. Stringer.