THE RADIO RECORD
,—■»■ REPORTED GOVERNMENT PAYMENT QUESTION IN THE HOUSE (From Ouh Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, Oct. 3. .-. A report that the now defunct Radio Record has received a sum amounting to several thousands of pounds from the Government was referred to in a question of which Mr H. G. Dickie (Opposition, Patea) gave notice in the House of Representatives to-day. ~\. Mr Dickie will ask the Acting Prime Minister (Mr P. Eraser) whether it is true that the Govfim*> ment has paid, or has undertaken to pay to the proprietors of the now defunct Radio Record a sum of several thousands, and if so on what grounds he justifies the transaction. It was not customary, Mr Dickie added, to regard a private enterprise that went out of business as having any claim, moral or otherwise, on the public funds. ■>'..
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23930, 4 October 1939, Page 12
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