PARLIAMENT AND THE PROGRAMMES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 318, 27 July 1945, Page 5

PARLIAMENT AND THE PROGRAMMES

Sir,-I, for one, disagree with the sug- | gestion that either the 2YA or the 2YD programme should be cancelled instead of the 2YC programme, during the meeting of Parliament. Even though "AntiBing" and others are lovers of. classical music, there are those who like to listen to the 2YD serials, which by the by are not as trivial as he seems to think, or else those who prefer to listen to the talks and the London News from 2YA with music in between. I think that affairs as they will exist during the Parliamentary session should not be

altered.

PRO-BING

(Khandallah).

Sir,-Is it proposed to go on prepar‘ing and printing musical programmes for 2YC on three nights of the week which will never be heard, and to continue penalising the good-music listeners of Wellington during sessions of Parliament? In normal times we get an allotted share of music from Wellington stations, though it is by no means as much as 3YA and 3YL give Christchurch, nor as ‘much as 1YA, 1YX and 1ZM give Auckland. But now during Parliament our share is cut down most unfairly, while 2YD and 2ZB go on largely overlapping. There has been no outcry from Auckland against the whole hour of good music 1ZM has every night from 7 to 8 p.m., which is in addition to 1YX’s wellplanned after-eight programmes. Why should there not be some music on 2YD? I cannot find anything there to make .up for what I lose from 2YC, It is absurd for the NBS to go on ignoring the disturbance, as if evening sittings of Parliament were a possibility and not a certainty, and to carry the pretence so far as to publish programmes that will never be heard. Complaints have been made in the past, but still no attempt seems to have been made to restore a part of our ration, which presumably was regarded as our right when it was allotted.

TWENTY-FIVE BOB

(Wellington).

Sir,-I protest against the cutting out of the 2YC programmes on Wednesday to Saturday when Parliament is in: session. These classical programmes I feel sure are a delight to music-lovers. Other centres can always get their main station and auxiliary station, but those depending on Wellington have to be content with one station as reception from other places is generally indifferent. I suggest that 2YA programmes be re-arranged when Parliament is sitting, so as to include a goodly number of the classical items scheduled for 2YC.

CLASSIC

(Wanganui).

[Several other letters on the same topic, and generally in the same strain, have been received. We regret that we cannot find space for the others.-Ed]