134 WERE INTERESTED

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 13, 4 October 1935, Page 5

134 WERE INTERESTED

A SMALL item buried away in the annual report ofthe Government Printing and Stationery Department, presented to Parliament last week, said: The number printed of each issue of Hansard, for.the session 193435 was 7000, THE NUMBER OF SUBSCRIBERS 134. That’s the point-the big reason why Parliament should not be put on the air. Out of probably half-a-million electors in this country not more than 134 were interested enough to read of the full activities of Par- ° liament! And yet there are men in the House who maintain that the’ public has a "‘right"’ to hear. what is going on in Parliament. If it can be regarded as a "right,"" it would certainly seem that it is not one that’ the electors want to exercise. A -‘voman candidate said the other day, "People have said to me that women are | not wanted in Parliament. Why, Parliament's half full of old women!" If this be the case it is quite certain © that listeners do not want broadcasts of.old wives’ tales and wearisome back-biting.