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...June, the U.S. had received from the United Kingdom $871,000,000 of Lend-Lease in food and supplies on which a dollars-&-cents value could be placed. From Australia, New Zealand and India it had received another $300,000,000. (For the same period American aid to Great Britain totaled...
...With Debate. New Zealand could now give them some facts about its own experiment. Final results were announced of the first general election faced by a House which had undergone a full term of broadcasting. Alarmists who had thought that the microphone would encourage fluent hypocrisy at the expense of floundering soundness were silenced-along with many of the House's most agile speakers. Some of the House's lamest orators were triumphantly reelected. To champions of parliamentary broadcasting, this seemed proof that the New Zealand voter was capable of being educated without being entranced...
Dairy v. Kitchen. Their opposition went back to 1936, when the system was established by the late Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, head of New-Zealand's first Labor Government ("The Fair Deal"). He wanted the House proceedings broadcast, on the grounds that the press did not give the Labor Party an even break. He put New Zealand's transmitters under direct Government control, appointed himself first Minister of Broadcasting...
...Zealand, which has the world's fourth highest radio density (one for every 4.6 people) ate the parliamentary broadcasts up. Farmers fought their wives over the question of where to put the radio: dairy, barn or kitchen. Prime Minister Savage's pear-shaped tone and forthright manner quickly made him their favorite broadcaster. Conservatives have yet to produce his peer...
...Zealand's House is its lawmaking body. Its Upper House is honorary and advisory...