RADIO ON COURSE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 84, 21 January 1936, Page 10

RADIO ON COURSE.

FOUR SYDNEY MEN FINED. t UNAUTHORISED TRANSMISSION. /United Press Association— Copyright' SYDNEY, Jan. 20. ■ A sequel to the discovery of a portable wireless transmitting set on a man at Rosehill racecourse at a meeting last year was the conviction in the police court at Rufus Theodoi e Nay oi, aged 52, an investor, and Charles Rowles, aged 26, a radio mechanic Bertie Sheeley, aged 47, a clerk and Walter Bedford, aged 25, a mechanic. The cases had been adjourned pending the recent High Court judgment on the validity of the V ireless Telegraph Act. ■ Bedford was fined £5 with £7 15s costs for having, without authorisation, used an appliance ior transmitting messages by wireless. Naylor, Rowles, and Sheeley were charged with having been __ concerned in Bedford’s offence. Baylor was fined £5 and Sheeley and ...owles £2 each. All three were ordered to pay £2 10s court costs. On a. similar charge Eric Gordon, aged 32, pleaded not guilty and was remanded. The prosecution stated that Bedford, who had a transmitting set strapped ta his body, sent information from the racecourse to a spot outside, where there was a receiving set and a broadcasting set belonging to the radio station 2YK. The defence stated that defendants had good . grounds for believing that they were acting within their rights, but after the High Court’s decision they had come to court at the earliest opportunity to plead guilty.