AUCKLAND LISTENERS' LEAGUE

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 35, 16 March 1928, Page 4

AUCKLAND LISTENERS' LEAGUE

oo PUBLIC MEETING MARCH 19

We have received from Mr, G, McB. Salt, hon, secretary of the Auckland Listeners’ League the following telegram :- Obliged if publish that Auckland Listeners’ League holding public mecting Unity Hall, Auckland, Monday, March 19, to discuss year’s operations and future of broadcast. ing., Messrs. Harris, Macnamara, been invited attend.-Salt, hon. secretary. MR. HARRIS UNABLE TO ATTEND. Under date February 29 Mr. G. McB. Salt, secretary of the Auckland Listeners’ League, wrote to the general manager of the Radio Broadcasting Company’ Christchurch, as follows :- Being of the opinion that Auckland listeners are very dissatisfied both with the programmes from 1YA and the whole system of administration of broadcasting, the executive of the Auckland Listeners’ League is holding a public meeting in the Unity Hall on Monday, March 19, at 8 p.m., to enable listeners to discuss the whole situation. I have been instructed by my executive to invite you to be present to address or otherwise take part in the meeting. To this letter the following reply has been sent by Mr. Harris, general manager of the Radio Broadcasting Company :- "We are in receipt of your letter of the 29th ult., to the effect that as your executive is of the opinion that Auckland listeners are very dissatisfied both with the programmes from 1YA and the whole system of administration of lroadcasting, you propose to hold a public meeting to enable listeners to discuss the situation. "You will no doubt appreciate that due to the many types of listener served by the Broadcasting Company, it is not possible to produce a programme that would be satisfactory to all. ‘The company, however, endeavours as far as it is possible to do through the medium of a broadcast service, to give different types of programmes, with a view to serving the various classes of listeners at different times. Every effort has been made by the company to improve steadily the programmes from all its stations commensvrate with the income, and to-day the listeners in your district

are being catered for through the medium of 1YA broadcast station by the leading talent available in Auckland City, ‘Such criticism as has appeared in the Press is largely untrue, or otherwise unjustifiable, considering the conditions and limitations under which the company operates, ‘In the circumstances no useful purpose can be served by the holding of a public meeting, and we would suggest that your executive forwards us some specific details in respect to its dissatisfaction with the programmes and administration, and in this way give us a fair and reasonable opportunity of geting at the facts, "The writer will also be very glad to meet your executive at the company’s office when he is next in Auckland, and in this way we have no doubt that we can enlighten you on such matters as may be cencerning you which will possibly lead to a better understanding between us.-(Sgd.) A. R. Harris, General Manager. Mr. G. McNamara, Secretary of the Post Office will be in the South Island on business for, we understand, some ten days.