SOLD RADIO SET.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 17

SOLD RADIO SET.

MAN WITHOUT LICENSE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) STRATFORD, Tuesday. An unusual case was heard in the local Magistrate's Court before Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M., when William McCracken was charged with selling a radio instrument without being the holder of a dealer's license. Mr. N. H. Moss, who appeared for the defendant, said the Department had placed a wrong interpretation on the regulations. Robert William Cardno, deputyradio inspector, of Stratford, said he visited the house of a man named Gatton at Puniwhakau, who luid a radio set which was in <jood working order and duly licensed. The regulations stated that a travelling representative for a licensed radio dealer, class 1 or 2, must bo in receipt of at least 30/ a week and must be ori the regular pay roll. McCracken had installed several sets in the district.

To Mr. Moss, witness said he could not give any reference regarding liis statement that a traveller should be on the regular pay roll. Those were his instructions. Mr. Moss: Do you know of any other prosecution of this kind in New Zealand ? Witness: No. Mr. Moss: Have you been instructed to bring this prosecution as a test case? Witness said lie would rather not answer the question. He said that an application had since been received for authority for McCracken to act as a travelling representative. Mr. Moss, in opening the case for the defence, said the Department's interpretation apparently was that if a man were employed full time, and receiving 30/ a week or over, he would not require a dealer's license, but otherwise a license would be required. McCracken had had nothing to do with the business transactions. In evidence it was admitted that McCracken would receive commission.

The magistrate reserved his decision,