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REQUEST FOR RADIO FACILITIES By !>l«>ernph - association WELLINGTON, August 11. The question of allowing contro.ersial broadcasts over the national stations was reopened in the House today by Mr A. C. Sexton (Count!y Party, Franklin), when the Petitions Committee reported that it had no recommendation to make on a petition signed by 9057 persons asking that provision be made for the broadcast cf lectures by the Auckland BritishIsrael Association. Mr Sexton said he was sorry the committee had no recommendation to make, and added that apparently nothing political or controversial was R be put over the national service. It was ar. absolute farce. He would seriously ask the Government to reconsider the whole question of broadcasting and say if it were not possible to work out some system that’would give reasonable freedom of speech over the air and allow people to hear what the? wanted to hear in proportion to their numbers in the community. The motion that the report of the committee be laid on the table of the House was agreed to.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21113, 12 August 1938, Page 8
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