"LET DOWN BY LABOUR PARTY"
Our Own Correspondent)
B Radio Stations and Credit Supporters AND SALES-TAX STILL 0N
(From
WAIPUKURAU, This Day. That the Labour Government had let the B-class broadcasting stations down badly was one of the char^es brought ugainst the party in power1" by the Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, in his address at Waipukurau last i ight. He said that the Labour Party had promised to fight the* cause of the B class stations, but' had done just the opposite. "There are three classes of people who have been badly let down by the Labour Party," he said. "One is the cl.iss that believed in social credit; the second is that which accepted the Labour Party 's promise to watch the interests of B-class stations; and the chird that class of people who suppoTtfid the Labour Party thinking that they would get rid of tne sales-tax." fc5o far as the B-class stations were concerned, he added, the Labour Party had made capital out of them at election time and had undertaken to look after their interests, but were now domg just the opposite. A voice: You'd have had them off the air long ago. Mr Hamilton: "Would we? We were subsidiging about eight of them.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 144, 6 July 1937, Page 9
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