Radio Control

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 2, 24 July 1931, Page 4

Radio Control

Policy Requested "{t is a matter for regret that the. Postmaster-General has not yet stated what action he is contemplating regarding radio broadcasting," sai Mr. H. G. R. Mason (Lab., Auckland Suburbs), in the House last week. Mr. Mason said the present position was causing a great deal of dissatisfaction, particularly in regard to the B class stations, some of which gave rather better service than some of those stations to whom all listeners’ fees were given, Unfair treatment had been meted out in return to these stations. He would like to know to what extent the restrictions which were being imposed with ever-increasing severity on the B class stations were dictated by the newspapers. He had noticed a great tenderness on the part of newspapers of all kinds toward the Government, and wondered whether this was due to the way in which the Government obliged the newspapers by imposing restrictions on the B class stations, The Postmaster-General, Hon. J. B. Donald: The interests of the newspapers have never been considered as far as I am concerned. Mr. Mason said he was glad to know that, and expressed the hope that other members of the Ministry would be able ‘to make a similar reply. In any case the House was entitled to have from the Government a clear statement of its policy on the broadcasting question.