CHANGING LIGHT BULBS
QUESTION OF LEGALITY The possibility of a householder committing a breach of tho regulations governing the installation of electrical appliances by the simple operation of changing an electric light bulb was mentioned in the Palmerston North Police Court to-day. A washing machine salesman was before Court because he installed one of his machines without being tho holder of a wireman's licence. He used a three-core flex attached to a two-pin plug, but the breach was discovered when the flex bad been worn so much that tho copper wire became exposed and a short circuit blow the fuse. Counsel for . the defendant drew the magistrate's attention to the fact that in the courtroom a flex extension was in use to supply a heater, the flex being fitted wtih; adaptors which could bo purchased by anyone. Counsel was informed, however, that the extra flex had been installed by an authorised wireman. Tho magistrate mentioned that according to 'one inspector it was a breach of the regulations to change an electric light bulb. The defendant was fined £2.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23721, 30 July 1940, Page 6
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