TELEPHONE BAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 17

TELEPHONE BAN

RIGHTS OF LANDLORDS. A landlord in Britain has the right to forbid a tenant to install a telephone and to order its removal if he already has one, it was stated at the office of the superintendent engineer of the General Post Office Engineering Department, recently. , This onamly is due to an old Act—the Telegraph Act of 1863—which gives a landlord legal rights against the' Post-master-general in requiring the removal of telephone apparatus involving exterior fittings. .... . . “Cases of the right being exercised are fortunately rare,” it was stated. When the Post Office installs a telephone subscriber’s premises they expect the tenant-subscriber to get any ‘ wayleave that may be necessary in those premises. Generally speaking, a landlord is ready to facilitate the installation of telephones bv his tenants.” Wireless sets are in a different cate-gory-s-if the set is run on an indoor aerial. The landlord’s rights in this matter apply only to fittings on the exterior of the property. A tenant may place what fittings he pleases inside the house provided he does no damage.