BROADCAST TALKS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 27 June 1938, Page 5

BROADCAST TALKS

‘DIRECTOR MUST BE JUDGE’

BEST LECTURES WANTED ALL SECTIONS WELCOMED ATTITUDE OF CABINET iPer Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. "The director has to get the most interesting material and make some changes in the speakers and peiformers when necessary. In the finish, the director has to be the judge of the material and the speakers too, said the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, referring to the recent action of the director of Broadcasting, Professor J. Shelley, in informing Station IZM, Auckland, that no further talks were to be given by Mr. A. E. Robinson, secretary of the Auckland provincial branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, without specific approval from the National Broadcasting Service.

“We must make one man an institution on the air—that is all there is in it,” Mr. Savage said. “We want the best in lectures over the air, as well as in music, and we do not want the same people all the time. The director, and those in charge of the service, have to be the judge.

“It is not a question of restricting the freedom of speech at all. Representatives of the farmers, as well as of other sections of the community, will always be welcome to send in scripts.”