ERECTION OF WIRELESS SETS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 8

ERECTION OF WIRELESS SETS

ANOTHER “WARNING” PROSECUTION By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, April 9. Amateur wireless operators who erected sets without obtaining the necessary permits from the Post and Telegraph Department were proceeded against by the Department in the Magistrate’s Court before Mr. J. G. Hewitt, S.M., to-day. It was explained by SeniorSergeant Quartermam that a good many sets had been erected in this way, and the cases were taken as a warning. The charge against each of the four defendants, who were J. D. Todd, Alfred Johnson, H. A. Harper, and H. A. Foote, was that they established a.plant capable of receiving wireless signals without having previously obtained a license issued by the Minister. All defendants except one admitted the offence. One said that his set was not connected with an aerial, but when the Magistrate explained that this was not the point involved, he altered his plea. “These cases are taken as a warning,” said the Magistrate. "I will adopt the same course as that taken in Wellington. Each defendant will be convicted and ordered to pay costs.”