RADIO CENSORSHIP.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20286, 11 April 1938, Page 3

RADIO CENSORSHIP.

RESENTMENT EXPRESSED.

AT PRESENT RESTRICTIONS.

FARMERS CONCERNED

[By Telegraph.—Press Awsoclation] HAMILTON, April 9.

A strong protest against the restrictions and censorships imposed on broadcasts by fanners 1 organisations on the grounds that the control was unjust and contrary to the economic wellbeing of the country was voiced in a remit moved by Mr. J. 11. Furniss and passed by the Waikato sub-provincial conference of the Farmers' Union. "Unless one were to look on the radio as a means of propaganda and not of amusement and instruction, the remit should not be encouraged," said Mr. D. 11. Cavers, a Raglan delegate, who opposed the remit, stating that a licenseholder paid his fee for amusement and not for "hot air."

Other delegates urged the removal of all censorship on the air. Mr. R. V. Young pointed out that' -the radio could always be turned off if a broadcast was unpalatable. Mr. H. H. Schweiters maintained that many more stations would be necessary if everybody was to talk over the air.