POWER RADIO SETS.
DEALER FINED TEN POUNDS
INSTALLED WITHOUT LICENCE
[BY TET.EGRAr.II. —OWN CORRESTONPENT.]
HAMILTON, Friday
Two charges of installing electrical conductors when he was not a registered wireman anr[ without a licence were admitted by John Alexander Malcolm, radio deaief, of Iluntly, in tho Hamilton Magistrate's Court to day. , The Crown solicitor. Mr. If. 'J'. Gillies, said defendant installed a wireless set operated from a beating plug in a house. A power board oilicial had found the, connection to he in a dangerous Condition. Malcolm had also made, an unauthorised connection in his shop at Iluntly. It was fortunate that, tho house and shop had not been destroyed by fire as a result of defendant's work.
ibis is a typical caso of unskilled persons tinkering with electrical fittings," Mid the magistrate, Mr. Wyvern Wilson. Wireless sets such as these should not be installed except by registered electrical
wiremen. Malcolm installed these two sets in such a manner as to cause possible danger to ]i fo and property." Defendant was fined £lO on the first charge, with costs totalling £4 14s.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20626, 26 July 1930, Page 14
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181POWER RADIO SETS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20626, 26 July 1930, Page 14
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