POLITICS BY RADIO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 6

POLITICS BY RADIO

MR S. G. HOLLAND ALLEGES UNFAIRNESS. GOVERNMENT ■. TAKING MORE THAN ITS SHARE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The claim that the National Party had not been fairly treated in the recent arrangements for political broadcasts was made by Mr S. G. Holland (Opposition, Christchurch North) in his address at a National Party meeting at the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall, Wellington, last night. “Is there one person in this hall tonight who will say that the National Party has been fairly treated?” he asked. “The Government has had' three Ministers —Mr Savage, Mr Nash and Mr Fraser—and Mr Atmore, who is almost a Labour man, making a total of four speakers over ' the National Broadcasting Service. Yet the National Party has been given only two opportunities of a similar nature. Is that fair?” (Voices: “No.”) “Will anyone in this gathering tonight suggest that the National Party in Parliament has been treated fairly in the present Address-in-Reply debate when on Thursday evening two Government speakers spoke for over an hour each, and then, in accordance with the usual procedure, the debate was adjourned? But. the Hon Adam Hamilton, as Leader of the Opposition, was given Friday morning in which to make his broadcast speech and no one in his right senses would suggest that broadcasting on a Friday morning has anything like the value of broadcasting on a Thursday evening,” Mr Holland said.