Twenty-two Political Broadcasts
TOTAL of 22 broadcasts will be made during the election campaign, eleven by Government speakers and eleven by Opposition speakers. The leaders of each party will open and close the broadcast campaign, there will be six two-hour relays of speeches from public halls throughout the country, and twelve 15-minute talks. The first broadcast will be given on Monday, August 13, from 8.0 p.m. until approximately 10.0 p.m., by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. S. G. Holland. It will be followed by a broadcast by the Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. Walter Nash, on the following evening, Tuesday, August 14. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 16, 17 and 18, 15-minute talks will be given each night by one Government and one Opposition speaker. These will be broadcast between 6.45 p.m. and 7.15 p.m. This procedure will be followed again on Thursday, August 23,
Friday, August 24, and Saturday, August 25. The names of speakers on these occasions have not yet been announced. On Monday, August 20, and Tuesday, August 21, and again on the following Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, August 27, 28, 29 and 30, relays of speeches from public halls by Government and Opposition speakers on alternate nights will be broadcast, from 8.0 p.m. to approximately 10.0:p.m. each night. The campaign will end on Friday, August 31, when final half-hour broadcasts will be made by both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. Details of the coverage for the preelection. broadcasts had not been completed as The Listener went to press, but it is likely that all major speeches will. be heard from the YA and YZ stations, as was the case at the last election, ; ppeiaka" 8S
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 19
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288Twenty-two Political Broadcasts New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 19
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