The Waipukurau Press. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933. RADIO SERVICE MATTER

Waipukurau Press, Volume XVIII, Issue 66, 11 March 1933, Page 4

The Waipukurau Press. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933. RADIO SERVICE MATTER

There were good grounds for the representations made on behalf of B class broadcasting stations concerning the use of gramophone records and the need for extending the regulations covering sponsored programmes by a number of members of Parliament who waited on the Post-master-General (Hon. A. Hamilton) and the chairman of the Broadcasting Board (Mr. H. A. Vickery). The deputation sought to have B stations placed on the same basis as the A stations. The Postmaster-General repeated the statement he made to Parliament that he did not consider Government interference justified and that the dispute between the manufacturers of gramophone records and B stations was a mateer for private negotiations. He added, however, that he was watching the position carefully.

FORTY-HOUR WEEK » On the suggestion of the Mayor, committees of the Christchurch City Council are considering the decision of the International Labour Conference, which is part of the machinery of the League of Nations, in favour of a 40-hour week, unaccompanied by any proposal for reduction in wages. In bringing the matter before a recent meeting of the council, the Mayor stated that there were certain portions of the staff who now worked a 40-hour week. In view of present conditions the council could not undertake any additional financial obligations, but if committees of the council could see a way to give effect to a 4 0-hour week at no additional cost to the council, and without any impairment of efficiency, or reduction in the weekly wage, already deteriorated by high exchange, he saw no reason why a trial should not be made,' at the discretion of the committees, as a guide to the incoming council.

THE NEW ZEALAND LEGION If, as Dr. R. Campbell Begg, the head of the new non-party political organisation known as the Legion, proclaims, the movement now taking shape throughout New Zealand can avoid sectional conflict in bringing its policy into effect, then success is practically assured. The constitution will need to be on very broadminded lines in order to bring the various schools of party political thought into harmony and a basis of liberalism will be essential. Judiciously directed, the Legion can be a power for good. In an interview, published in the “Dominion,” Dr. Begg says:—“lts attitude is nonparty, and its purpose is to assist and encourage and stimulate what is best in our public life. One of its primary objects is to remove the fetters which have bound the Parliamentary machine over so many years, and which threaten its efficiency mainly by the intense pressure put upon Ministers and members, not only through deputations but from the constituencies. This pressure prevents them acting untrammelled. To those who know the. inner workings of the political machine this point of view needs no elaboration.”