BANNED RADIO TALK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21926, 9 October 1934, Page 10

BANNED RADIO TALK

PROTEST BY IZB CLUB BRITISH-ISRAEL „ ASSOCIATION Protest against- the present "unsatisfactory method of controlling B station broadcasts :in New Zealand" is made in a letter forwarded yesterday by the executive of the IZB Radio Club to members of Parliament. "J.he recent banning of a talk by the British-Israel Association from IZM is a definite case in point," states the letter, which is signed by the president of the IZB club, Mr. A. Posser. " While we do not in any way associate ourselves with the merits or demerits of the BritishIsrael case, we most emphatically state that a system of regulation which allows an unqualified, official to ban, without the right of appeal, any broadcast, is obviously wrong in principle." Although reform had been urged for years, the position was no clearer than it was at the start, the letter added. The ban on the British-Israel Association was only one of many typical instances. The evidence was so convincing on this matter that the setting up of a commission to inquire into the whole circumstances was justified. Unless that was done promptly broadcasting would probably bo made a definite issue at the next election.