WIRELESS REGULATIONS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3806, 22 February 1927, Page 6

WIRELESS REGULATIONS.

DEALER IN COURT. - INVERCARGILL, February 16. The Magistrate (Mr Cruickshank. S.M.) to-day delivered reserved judgment in the case in which Rupert Printz, a licensed radio dealer, was charged that about June, 1926, at Invercargill he did construct a plant, capable of receiving wireless telegraphic signals otherwise than by the license granted to him by the Minister of Telegraphs. Defendant pleaded not guilty when the case was heard and the magistrate treated it in the nature of a test case. The magistrate giving judgment said: “I think that the defendant has committed a technical breach of the Act. He holds two licenses but neither of them seems quite to fib the case. If he had advised the Telegraph Office and consulted them it is probable that his receiving license could have been endorsed for a portable station. There does not seem to be any provision by which a dealer can erect a set in the house of a prospective buyer on trial for a short period. This must sometimes be done in the course of business. Something to meet such a case might well be allowed by the department. The defendant’s action has arisen through ignorance of the regulations. He will be convicted and discharged.”