MAN-MADE STATIC

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 130, 4 June 1931, Page 20

MAN-MADE STATIC

This column last week quoted an English article, discussiug the possibility of using the existing law to compel the suppression of "man-made static" due to defects in electrical apparatus. By. a coincidence 'there arrived on the writer's table, just too l.ate to he used that day, at; extract i'rom tjie "Westport Times" showing that in the remoter parts of New Zealand they arc ahead even of England, let alone the Dominion's cities. The

West-port Coal Company's management, says the paper's Denniston correspondent, has issued warnings that it will restrict the supply of current to consumers who are "creating any interferenco by any act which will prove objectionable to f.liose of their customers who are desirous of receiving radio reception. Further, they may discontinue supply it' the nuisance, if any, is persisted in." Tho correspondent adds that Hi is action is much appreciated and there is "an absence of illicit batlory chargers." If it were only "illicit battery chargers" there would be hopo even here. i