Radio's Future

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 3, 31 July 1931, Page 5

Radio's Future

Chamber of Commerce Resolution | B Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce last week adopted a recommendation from its legislative committee on the subject of broadcasting control. The committee submitted a long report upon the subject in the eourse of which it stated that at the last meeting of the council a resolution had been proposed involving recommendations to the Government in regard ot the control of broadcasting. Two very vital principles were involved in’ this resolution-namely: (1) The ‘encroachment by the Government further into the field of private enterprise ; -«2) the granting of 2 monopoly in a public utility to private interests. Assurances had been given that there was no intention or desire on the part of the Government or on the part of any Government department to take the place of the Broadcasting Company, or to exercise any further control, which it must be recognised was necessary, than they did at present. The committee submitted the following resolution for the consideration of the council, with a recommendation that it be passed :-- That it be a recommendation from the chamber to the Goyernment that in considering the qyeggon of the gontrol of radio broadcasting in New Zealand, any system of control de‘cided on shall not involve any further encroachment by the Government into the field of private enterprise; and that in the event of the British or Canadian system of control being adopted, proper safeguards be provided against the possibility of any political control; and that in the event of a monopoly being granted to private interests, more adequate safeguards be imposed with regard to . the restriction of profits and the application of the income from license fees than are contained in the present agreement with the Broadcasting Company. The recommendation was adopted.