LISTENING-IN FEES.
AN UNUSTJAIi APPLICATION. USADIITO CASE IN LONDON. (Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. An extraordinary application was made in the Chancery division testing the legality of charging -wireless listening in licence fees. i ■Robert Moffat Ford, a wireless amateur, conducting Ins own case, sought an injunction to restrain the PostmnsterGeneral from handing over to the Broadcasting Company, £350,000 out of listeners' licence (fees, the contention being that under the 'Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1004 the PostmasterGeneral hnd no right to collect license fees from holders of receiving sets only, or from holders of transmitting sets. Mr. Justice Astbury: 'Where's your interest ? Ford: As a taxpayer concerned in a large sum of public money now in jeopardy. Mr. justice Astbury: We are all taxpayers. Ford: But nobody elst thought of it! Mr. Justice Astibnry refuced the injunction. In the absence of the Brnadcasing Company, the Postmaster-Gen°ral adjourned the application.—A. and N.Z.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 53, 4 March 1925, Page 9
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