RADIO CONTROL.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12568, 8 February 1934, Page 7

RADIO CONTROL.

COMMENT OX NEW ZEALAND SYSTEM. VALUE OF COMPETITION. “I consider that New Zealand has been very unwise in removing from the broadcasting sphere the competitive element of privately-owned commercial stations,’ 7 said Mr M. B. Duffy, a member of the Comonwealth Bank Board, and president of the Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Stations of Australia, in an interview. ‘■■The effect of the dual system of Government-owned and privatelyowned stations has been to improve vastly the programmes all round in Australia, and I am sure a similar state of affairs would have been the case in Xew Zealand, if allowed to develop,” he said. ‘ ‘Broadcasting is only in its infancy, and the more executives that are brought to bear upon ascertaining the features that please the public, the better it will be for the listener. That will mean more listeners’ licenses, which in turn will mean greater revenue for the Government stations, improved programmes, and greater activity in the business of manufacturing and selling of sets. c ‘After my last visit to the United States and to England, I came horn© convinced that the Australian system was the happy combination of the systems adopted in the two countries, one unrestricted competition and the other no competition under a Government board.”