BROADCAST SPEECH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 519, 1 May 1933, Page 5

BROADCAST SPEECH

(Press Assn.—

MR. COATES AND THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION PREFERENCES ALLEGED

-By Telegraph — Copyright) .

Dunedin, Sunday. An industrial exhibition under the auspices of the Manufacturers' Association and the Trades and Labour Council, and comprising a big and comprehensive industrial display of New Zealand made goods, was opened at the Trades Hall on Saturday afternoon by Mr. H. E. Holland, Leader of the Opposition. After congratulating Dunedin on the fine display, he said that he had '"been informed that the Broadcasting •'Board had announced that it would not broadcast any portion of his speech that was of a controversial character.

The board made it a condition that 'if the speech was to be broadcast, he anust not cr'iticise the Ottawa agree,'ment or touch on any other controversial matters. Indeed there was no speech broadcast to-day that ,was not of a controversial nature. Mr. Coates had repeatedly broad,'cast speeches which he, Mr. Holland, claimed were controversial, and 'if the Broadcasting Board was to follow what it had stated v/bs its policy in his, Mr. Holland's case, no speech would ever be broadcast in New Zealari(L . .

He considered that all (iovernment pronouncenients should be broadcast, and he thought uttera'nces from ihe Opposition of the House should also be allowed to go over the air, so that people might hear both sides of the question. " These remarks 'were met with ap'proval by a large sectioil of the audience. : ■