B CLASS STATIONS
GOVERNMENT CRITICIZED BY LISTENERS’ CLUB (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 22. The executive of the United Listeners’ Club held a special meeting today and later issued a statement viewing with concern the failure of the Government to honour its pre-election pledges about B class stations. Both in written and repeated verbal utterances the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) and his colleagues had assured listeners that justice would be done to the B class stations, it was stated. “The truth is that after 16 months no subsidies or assistance have been given in accordance with the election pledges and it now appears that an attempt is being made to eliminate them by Government purchase,” the statement continued. “This method of dealing with a major issue of the 1935 general election is exhausting the patience of listeners. The United Listeners’ Club asserts that the Government has no mandate from the electors to make broadcasting a State monopoly, and we are fully in agreement with the Hastings Chamber of Commerce that the Government should buy out no B station until the opinion of listeners has been obtained.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 8
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190B CLASS STATIONS Southland Times, Issue 23181, 23 April 1937, Page 8
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