CHURCH BROADCASTS
Sir,-Generally there ist a Roland to watch and counter every! Oliver. So here’s a Roland to counter) the opinions of the "Oliver" of your issue of August 9. I trust he has the sense, grace, and humility to realise that there are thousands of listeners who are definitely not of his mind, and who may‘ be just as entitled to consideration as \he is, and may possibly be of as much value to the life of the State as he is.' There are thousands of listeners, invalids, elderly people, shut-in folk and others who derive much joy and encouragement from the broadcasts of Church serwices. In their interests I suggest that * Oliver" should be sufficiently self-sacrificing to tune in for two short hours on Sundays to other radio stations, which miay provide him with programmes more agreeable to his type of mentality. In any case I submit that he would do his country, and these other listeners, a great disservice if he should attempt to use his influence to ban the broadcasts of these services, or so limit) and curtail them as to make them of little advantage or satisfaction to other} lis-
teners. Two hours per week is but a small percentage of the time allotted to all other types of programmes, -records, talks, and sports news. This small percentage "Oliver" should not grudge to the thousands who are not of his mind,
ROLAND
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 24
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238CHURCH BROADCASTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 61, 23 August 1940, Page 24
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