LISTENERS' LEAGUE

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 9, 16 September 1927, Page 12

LISTENERS' LEAGUE

', Delegates from various listeners’ vieties throughout the Dominion are scheduled to meet at Wellington on september 20, commencing with a ‘Special session at 11 a.m., when they will be welcomed by the Mayor (Mr. G. A. Troup). Among those who have -beeu invited to speak are thé Prime Minister = (the Right "lon. J. CG. Coates}, the Postuiaster-General (Ion. ‘W. Nosworthy),.the Secretary of the ‘Post aud ‘Telegraplt Department, and tle general inannger of the Radio Broadcasting Company of wew ZeaJasid, Ltd. ~The first sessions, which will be held in-the Dominion Farmers’ Jastiiute, will be open to the public. The establishnient of a New Zealand ‘Listeners’ League, to which all societies will affiliate, will be among the duportant matters to be considered. ‘the Wellington Society will be represented at the conference br its president, Mr. J. [1, Owen; aud Mr. I. M Levy, vice-president. "Mr. R. Leslie. Jones, hon, secretary of the society,’ Will act as seerctary to tlic conference

Members of the execntive committee of the Anckland Listeners’ League recentiy Iti an opportunity of disenssing the broadcasting situation with Mr XR. (larris, general manager of the Radio Broadcasting savs Fea exchange. Since the interview the kuguce’s exceutive has spent no lif’ >: time ii formulating a scheme of cocperation with the local station ,director, If the idea is accepted, says the "New Zealand I[Herald," ot is ‘ie league's intention to shelve, for the tinue being, its policy of endeavouring to obtain a similar control of New Zealand broadcasting to that obteiming -it) Great Britain,