RADIO REVENUE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26413, 18 March 1947, Page 4

RADIO REVENUE

TARANAKI PROTEST REDUCED HOURS URGED P.A. NEW PLYMOUTH. Mar. 17. Allegations that revenue from commercial radio broadcasting prevented a reduction in broadcasting hours were made at a meeting of the Taranaki Electric Power Board to-day when an emphatic protest at the nonreduction of broadcasting hours was forwarded by telegram to the Minister in Charge of the State Hydro-elec-tricity Department. Mr Semple. f The text of the telegram was: “This' board emphatically protests against a system of controls that compels farmers, and their wives and children, to milk cows by hand for many hours each day while the Government policy approves of broadcasting remaining about 15 hours each day. Dairy. factories have their work disorganised and private homes are forced to economise while a substantial saving in power could be made by cutting broadcasting hours down to at the most two each day. The action of the Government in this respect is having a bad moral effect on consumers. We urge Mr Semple to give serious and sincere consideration to this phase of economising in power.”