LABOUR AND RADIO

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 18764, 20 December 1935, Page 7

LABOUR AND RADIO

DISSEMINATING NEWS. MR PARRY SPEAKS OUT. MINISTER AND PRESS INTERESTS. (By Telegraph—Special Reporter. HUNTLY, Thursday. A veiled Intimation that If necessary the Labour Government would utilise the radio broadcasting system to disseminate Its opinions among the people of the Dominion was given by the Hon. W. , E. Parry, Minister of Internal Affairs, speaking at a reception to the Minister of Agrloulture, the Hon. W. Lee Martin, at Huntly this evening, 1 “When we start to put our policy Into operation it will not be opposed by the great mass of the community but by the big daily newspapers of New Zealand,” Mr Parry stated. “But there Is no need to worry about this opposition because ,we are better oil to-day in presenting our policy before the people of New Zealand than the Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon ever was. We have the freedom of the air. If we arc refused the right to tell the people what we shall do by means of the daily papers, we shall have the right to use the air.”

Mr Parry stated that after Christmas the parly would commence moulding the legislation it had promised. Little or no progress could be made by the country until Labour placed the fundamentals of its policy upon the Statute Book. Some might expect to receive more than they got from the first legislation, hut lie would assure them that the foundations would be carefully and truly laid. The party knew what it wanted and knew how to get it.