WIRELESS AERIALS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18945, 17 February 1925, Page 12

WIRELESS AERIALS.

MANY UNSIGHTLY MASTS. COMPLAINTS MADE IN SYDNEY. [FROM OIFR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] SYDNEY. Feb. 13. Many of Sydney's suburbs are now simply forests of unsightly wireless aerial masts. It was with a certain amount of complacence at first that the municipal authorities witnessed these masts shooting up; but now, like a noxious weed, they have spread everywhere, without regard for appearance, or the susceptibilities of the. man next door who may not be a wireless fanatic, and sonic of the local councils have been spurred to action. They have protested to the PostmasterGeneral's Department against the unsightly masts that are disfiguring the landscape. The department, however, cannot help the councils. Tt says it has no power to control the masts, nor has it any power over what is erected in private dwellings. The local authorities, dissatisfied with this, propose to ask the next Local Government Conference to obtain the necessary power for councils to control the masts. The protest is based on good premises. Clothes props, long boughs of trees and other unsightly contrivances are to be seen everywhere, iri cases where the wireless enthusiast cannot swing his aerial from neighbouring trees or cannot afford the outlay for a proper mast.