NO RADIO RAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22144, 25 June 1935, Page 8

NO RADIO RAY

THE TAKAPUNA CASE DEFINITE POLICE DENIAL MR. PENNY'S EXPERIMENTS EFFECT UPON RECEPTION Responsible police authorities Testerday discounted any suggestion that the police guard on Mr. Victor Penny in the Auckland Hospital and at Mr. Penny's home at Takapuna had any connection with the alleged discovery of any radio ray, as has been rumoured. It was learned that their interest had been aroused in possible effects on commercial and official wireless reception of Mr. Penny's experiments. What these wero would be established when Mr. Penny was able to leave the hospital. Dr. J. W. Craven, medical superintendent at the hospital, said there was no truth in any statement that Mr. Penny was being held in hospital for his protection. He was there solely as a patient, and the ban on visitors to him was due to the state of his health. "The hospital is not a boarding house, and as soon as Mr. Penny is fit he will be discharged," Dr. Craven said. Mr. Penny was admitted to hospital last Wednesday night, after it had been reported that he had been attacked at his place of employment, the depot of the North Shore Transport Company, Limited, at Takapuna. No weapon with which Mr. Penny might have been assaulted has so far been found by detectives.

COMMISSIONER AMUSED "THE BEST FOR SOME TIME" [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] WELLINGTON, Monday When interviewed this morning concerning the Takapuna ease, the Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. G. TVohlmann, laughed. "Really, this mystery is quite one of the best for some time," Mr. ohlmann said. "It seems such good 'copy,' coming, as it does, at this quiet season, that I am reluctant to say anything that may spoil even this penny-halfpenny effort to drive away dull care. "We have all heard of the Loch Ness monster, but many reasonably wellbalanced people venture to doubt its existence. It is possible that the 'Nosey-Parker' police, who, of course, hate mysteries, 'smell a rat,' and, in the words of the immortal Sir Boyle Roche, see it 'floating in the air' and are trying to 'nip it in the bud'."