STATE RADIO FACTORY
NO PLANS AT PRESENT MANUFACTURE OF SETS COMMENT BY MINISTER (Per Press Association.) CnRTSTCHURCH, this day. "Our attitude is that if radio manufacturers can and will give the service to the people by supplying radio sets at " reasonable cost, if is not contemplated that manufacture will bo undertaken by the Government," said the Minister ol Industries and Commerce, the lion. 1). 0. Sullivan, to-day when a rumour that n State factory for the manufacture of radio receiving sets was under consideration was referred to him. The Minister said that everything depended on the radio people themselves. .If they helped the Government by seeing that the p'conlc were able to buy raibo sets at a fair and reasonable cost, if. was unlikely that the Government would take any action itself. The 'Government wonted all the people to be able to have. the. advantages of the radio service, but up to the present the establishment of a radio factory had not been decided upon as part of the policy of the Government.
One of the difficulties in connection with the radio industry was the high cost of selling, which appeared almost to exceed the cost of production.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 13
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198STATE RADIO FACTORY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19247, 12 February 1937, Page 13
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