POWER SUPPLY AUTHORITIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 255, 25 September 1933, Page 2

POWER SUPPLY AUTHORITIES

RADIO INTERFERENCE DISCUSSED. Per 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 difficult times, the electrical 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. A discussion took place on the subject of radio interference and the means of reducing such trouble. The conference gave hearty support to a report by a special committee .set up at the last conference recommending that legislation bo sought for drawing up and enforcing suitable regulations. Mr Lauclilun said it was suggested that the P. and. T. Department should be the clearing house for interference complaints and should investigate them and he allocated the responsibility for remedying them or improving the position, co-operating as far as possible with the electric supply and tramway authorities and tho users of electrical equipment.