SANDY'S CORI

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 July 1948, Page 4

SANDY'S CORI

ANOTHER QUEUE DAfl June 30, halfway through tlfl Yesterday was in every way ifl day in this socialistic life leading. First come, first senj the ruie of the queue. It woulfl horrible thing if the Army J method—“fah in in alphabet™ der ’—was resurrected. RADIO CONSCIOUS 1 How terribly conscious our Pl mentarians have become as td radio. It would seem that in House of Representatives every a her of it has one eye on the BJ is speaking to, the other on me oi cast. Does that mean that if broadcast was not functioning would be a different speech, or that too many people taKe nolle what is said in Parliament, and \i Pardament is on the air care mid taken to say the correct thin J one’s seat becomes endangered 'll are of opinion that few people I up their minds on how to vot4 what is said in the House. They not swayed by what politicians! they vote according to the do] and when they listen in they J already made up their minds wl believe and who not to be.ieve. 1 ernments rise and fah not on i they say—it is on what they do what they do does not meet with proval, all the radios in the u won't help them. We Ihink broadcasting people are devoid humour. What they should do i have the House on the air when members think it is*off. adopt a m od of not letting anybody—not < the Prime Minister—Know wnen speech is going over. Let them be their natural selves, ta klm the House and not to the unseen tening public. That would cure business of wondering who is gel the best of the deal when it come use of the radio. It would be un of course, if one were in charge of radio, to suddenly switch it oi Bellamy’s to find out some h That would be too much the maid 'ooking through the ! hole. Still, we feel that witl stooping so low, the radio people I a glorious opportunity of using t initiative and giv’hg us the H< when the House thinks it is not bi heard. .