RADIO LAWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 273, 18 November 1927, Page 7

RADIO LAWS.

BILL IN AUSTRALIA.

Federal Government And Amalgamated Wireless.

COURT ACTIONS IN N.Z.

(By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Received 12 noon.) CANBERRA, this day. In the House of Representatives Mr. S. M. Bruce introduced a bill to amend the agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the Amalgamated Wireless of Australia, Limited.

It provides for free patent rights to licensed broadcasting stations, radio dealers and listeners-in from the Amalgamated Wireless with the payment to Amalgamated Wireless by the Commonwealth Government of 3d per month on behalf of each licensed listener and the revision by the Amalgamated Wireless of stations which it at present owns.

The new agreement is to remain operative for live years and the Commonwealth and the company must agree oil the form of the license to be signed by the users of the patents,

The company agrees to grant a license free of royalty, to every newspaper and every broadcasting station in the Commonwealth for the purpose of receiving official news bulletins from Britain.

It also agrees to prosecute, as expeditiously us possible, actions which have already been instituted for infringement of the patent rights. It is agreed that the actions are for rights impoitant to broadcasting aud must be finished within twelve months in favour of the company. The agreement provides that the company will commence corresponding actions in New Zealand.

The provision dealing with the retention of stations by Amalgamated Wireless includes a clause that all equipment shall be modernised and stations reorganised. Payments to the Post-master-General's Department in respect of messages handled by the Post Ollice are eliminated while the Commonwealth promises to provide the company with the necessary land for line connections and internal communications at usual rates.

The company is not allowed to transmit or receive inland messages unless required by the Commonwealth in cases of interruption to the line circuits.

The company will -be entitled to establish and operate commercial wireless services between Australia and ships at sea, with aircraft and between territories and other countries.