WOMEN SHOW LARGE RADIO INTEREST

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 5

WOMEN SHOW LARGE RADIO INTEREST

Canterbury Meeting Suggests Thriller Serials Be Banned When Children Listen In

INNEW ZEALAND women are taking a constructive interest in radio broadcast features as they exist in New Zealand to-day. Approval of recommendations to the National Broadcasting Service, which were sent to organisations represented on the council for consideration, was given at a recent meeting of the Mid-Canterbury National Council of Women, at Ashburton. Mrs. F. Curtis (president) presided. Matters the women asked the NBS to consider carefully were: That only birthdays of children between three and seven years, and birthdays of elderly persons, be called over the air; that broadcast plays and serial features with murder and crime themes be restricted, and that they should be prohibited during hours when children are likely to be listening-in; that arrangers of children’s-hour sessions should try to introduce more recreational and educational material into the programmes.

HE delegates from the MidCanterbury Federation of Women’s Institutes, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Trained Nurses’ Association supported all remits,

The annual conference of the National Council of Women in New Yealand will be held in Christchurch from December 25 to 29, and, if the aforementioned recom: mendations have not been noticed

by the NBS in the meantime, the | women will probably have more than a little to say about it. The women feel they were quite modest in their demands, particularly when the birthdays of the most obsctire littie folk are heralded as they are to-day with a noise like a fire-engine syren being choked off. Murder and crime material, it was believed, is presented at an inopportune time. ‘There was 2 unanimity of opinion for the infusion of more recreational and educational themes into children’s programmes,