RADIO APPARATUS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 24, 8 November 1940, Page 3

RADIO APPARATUS.

CONTROL BY THE GOVERNMENT. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) announces that as a further war emergency precaution the Government has found it necessary to assume control over certain wireless transmitting apparatus in private ownership, and also diathermy equipment, as used by doctors, hospitals, universities, etc. Regulations entitled “The Radio Emergency Regulations, 1910,”' which give the Government the necessary power and which will he administered by the Post Office, ' were gazetted to-day. As these Regulations provide for the licensing of the apparatus referred to within a period of three weeks from to-dav, owners of equipment covered by the Regulations should not delay in ascertaining from their local post office their obligations in the matter. ;

The Regulations also make it illegal to purchase or to acquire wireless transmitting apparatus except on the authority of a 'permit issued by the Post Office. Included in the wireless apparatus which will he subject to registration are items such as electronic valves capable of anode dissipation exceding 10 watts which include valves used in speech amplifiers, public address systems, picture plants, e£c.