ENGINEERS IN CONFERENCE

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 26 September 1933, Page 5

ENGINEERS IN CONFERENCE

ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY

RADIO INTERFERENCE.

(By Telegraph- Press Association.! WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. The annual conference of the New Zealand Power Board and Supply Authority Engineers’ Association opened this morning. In welcoming the delegates the president Mr G. Lauchlan, remarked that despite the diiiicult times the electrical7 industry had developed and must continue to do so. Declaring the conference open the Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, said the industry was potentially the biggest in New. Zealand. Discussion took place on the subject of radio interference and means of reducing such trouble. The conference gave hearty support to a report by a special committe set up at the last conference recommending that legislation be sought for drawing up and enforcing suitable regulations. Mr Lauchlan said it was suggested the P. and T. Department should be the clearing house for interference complaints and should investigate them and allocate the responsibility for remedying them or improving the. position, co-operating as far as possible with electric supply and tramway authoritics and liters of electrical equipment.