WIRELESS REGULATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19510, 14 December 1926, Page 14

WIRELESS REGULATIONS.

BREACH CHARGE DISMISSED. PURCHASER'S TRIAL SET. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] DUNE DIN, Monday. An interesting point was raised in the Dunedin Magistrate's Court by Mr. B. S. Irwin, who appeared for the defendant in a case in which John Stenhouse was charged with, on November 25, at Dunedin, establishing a wireless plant capable of receiving signals without being licensed to do so. Defendant pleaded guilty.

Mr. Irwin said the circumstances were a little exceptional. Defendant had decided to put in a plant and for that purpose radio dealers had erected an aerial, and two or three plants had been tried. On November 25 he decided to adopt one plant and he had received his licence the following day. Frank Barnett, licensed radio dealer, said he had been in touch with defendant and a temporary aerial had been put up and-two sets tried. On November 25 defendant decided to take the set he now had installed. From the beginning of November to November 25 he had had sets installed, but had not decided which one he was going to take. "The object of the Act is to ensure that all wireless sets are duly registered, and there was no concealment in the present case," said the magistrate. Defendant had secured a licence the day following that on which he had finally purchased the set. There may have been a technical breach of the Act, but the charge would be dismissed.