Radio Crash Bang To Go At Home

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 235, 5 October 1936, Page 5

Radio Crash Bang To Go At Home

LEGISLATION TO STOP ELECTRICAL NOISES Legislation, to prevent interference vith broadcast programmes by electrical apparatuses likely to be introduced at Home following tlio recommendations of tlie report of the Committee formed three years ago to investigate the growing problem. Representative of the Post Office, the and the radio and electrical industries composed the Committee. Recently the Government indicated that it would act upon the recommendations. Vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, lifts, Hashing signs, trams, electric trains—all kinds of industrial and domestic electrical apparatus can introduce noises into wireless programmes, and the committee has concentrated on devising a "yardstick" of interference, so that it can be laid down what degree of noise is to be prohibited. The Post Office has 300 men engaged in investigating interference. Every year 40,000 complaints are received. In about 4,000 cases investigated each year the owner or user of the interfering apparatus declines to take action or to meet the cost of suppressing devices. Electrical; interference with broadcasting was made illegal in Prance some time ago.