B CLASS RADIO STATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21976, 10 June 1933, Page 12

B CLASS RADIO STATION

SUSPENSION OF LICENSE DISREGARD OF REGULATIONS (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND. June 9. • The request for the continuation of the transmitting license of the B class radio station IZR until an inquiry has been held into the circumstances which led to the closing of the station on Thursday evening has been refused by the Post-master-general (Mr A. Hamilton). A telegram received from the Minister today by Messrs Lewis Eady, Ltd., proprietors of the station, said that the information which led to the action taken by him was so serious that he regretted it was impossible for him to grant the request. ?

A letter sent to the Minister by the firm to-night set out the facts of the case as viewed by the station and asked for immediate reconsideration to be given to the original request to allow transmission to be resumed pending a thorough and impartial investigation of all that was involved in the complaint. The letter requesting the bessation of transmission was from the Post and Telegraph Department at Auckland.. It read: “I am directed by ray head office to inform you that in view of your disregard of the radio regulations and the conditions under which sponsored programmes may be transmitted, and of warnings issued from time to time in connection with such failures, the Minister has now decided to suspend the license of IZR. It is therefore requested that transmission cease forthwith.”