WIRELESS IN AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 7

WIRELESS IN AUSTRALIA.

THE BROADCAST SYSTEM. LIMITED WAVE LENGTHS. MELBOURNE, May 2.".. The Wireless Confrrrnco will consider a scheme submitted by Mr. KisK, managing director of Amalgamated j Wireless. Ltd. He proposes that a. mini- I her of wave lengths shall be set aside for broadcasting stations, so chosen that neighbouring stations shall not, interfere with each other or other traffic Each station shall be licensed annually to transmit on one of these wave lengths only. Licenses to hire or sell receiving apparatus conforming tn t.he regulations shall he issued to dealers in electrical apparatus, the dealers to sell apparatus to holders of licenses only, and to kee-p a record of Kales. Broadcasters shall provide the Government with a list oi license holders using their services, and pay an annual fee to tho Government, for each Buch license. Bona-fido experimenters shall be piven every reasonable freedom in conductinpr experiments which do not interfere with matter provided by broadcasting firms. Mr. Fisk stated that the hroadeastin? scheme, if carried out in Australia in the same way as in England, would necessitate the establishment of 200 stations and would cost £4.000.000 annually — (A. and X.Z. Table.) PROTECTION OF TfEWS. (Received J1.30 a.m.) M~ELBOUTtN~E. this day. The Wireless Conference passed a resolution in connection with tho appointment of a board to administer regulations that it compriso representatives of Government broadcasting stations, manufacturers, traders, and the ProsIt was also agreed that the Conference recognises the necessity of protecting the principle of property in news. A memorandum prepared by members of the Press was accepted. It recommended that a condition of every license issued ehall he that every licensee shall recognise the exclusive ownership of news or intelligence collected by any news service by .full acknowledgment of its use, hy full consent in writing beforehand, and upon such payment as might 'be afrrped to between the licensee and any newspaper or agrency concerned. Regulations were agreed to determining the number of wave lengths to he allotted for broadcasting purposes to be selected in respect of the suitability of stations of various powers, and for standardisation of receiving apparatus. Retailers must keep a record of all equipment sold, and any person dealing in or using wireless equipment without a license will be subject to an adequate penalty. The Conference affirmed preference to Australian. British and foreign manufacturers in that order. The Post.master-General stated that he would consider the Conference decisions forthwith and frame regulations for broadcasting at the earliest opportunity.—(A. ant N.Z. Cable.)