AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, 20 June 1927, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

WIRELESS INQUIRY. SYDNEY, June 17. Further examined by the Wireless Commission in regard to Amalgamated Wireless Protection rights, Mr Fisk said, his company had not yet made claims in New Zealand, although their patents were being infringed there. Asked by the Chairman if ho did not think it would be better to go to New Zealand and have their legal rights tested without disturbing the peace of the Commonwealth, Fisk replied he did not think trade in Australia would be any more peaceful, because they would still be under a cloud. When the Western Electric Company proposed to instal broadcasting stations in New Zealand, he agreed that it could use Amalgamated the latter had the right to collect a Wireless protection rights, provided royalty for their use. It was a difficult thing to ask the New Zealand Government to pay a royalty, when the whole matter was under review in Australia. If the- Commonwealth established a broadcasting monopoly, his company would have to negotiate with the Government along the same lines as with New Zealand.