TOO MUCH DELETED FROM SCRIPT OF BROADCAST

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 February 1948, Page 4

TOO MUCH DELETED FROM SCRIPT OF BROADCAST

IAIHATE FAKMU DECLINES TO PERMIT ITS USE

(0.C.) Marton, Feb. 24. Because too many deletions had been made to the script of an address he had prepared for broadcasting in New Zealand to further the Aid for Britain appeal, Mr, D. G. Gordon, TaU hape, declined to allow it to be broadcast.

Mr. Gordon read his script, and ths deletions made to it by the National Broadcasting Service, to a meeting ot the Wellington Provincial district ot Federated Farmers, held here to-day. Mr. Gordon said that the deletions made it appear that anything which was of the slightest reflection on ths Government was cut out .In one paragraph, where the script said that factors limiting production at present were many and varied, the continuation of the sentence,” that any conception of maximum production from New Zealand as a whole was simply wishful thinking," was deleted. Another paragraph deleted read: "If farmers give way at this time to tha popular urge of minimum work for maximum pay they no doubt fvill have an easier time, but in the meantime Britain may starve and the moral force that this country needs to put it on the right line will be further dissipated.” Other comments which met with disapproval from the National Broadcasting Service, included an Appeal for farmers to overcome political feelings in their response to the call for higher production, the script being cut where Mr. Gordon wrote: "We know that in many cases the toll of increased production will fall on ourselves or our families, and the nett result may be Increased taxation."