WIRELESS LICENSE FEES
INTERESTING COURT PROCEEDINGS. (Bj Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 3. (Received March 4, 7.5 pjn.) An extraordinary application is being heard before the Chancery Division testing the legality of charging wireless listeningin license fees. Robert Moffatt Ford, a wireless amateur, who is conducting his own case, sought an injunction to restrain the Postmaster-Gen-eral handing over tn the Broadcasting Company £350 out of the listeners’ license fees, the contention being that under the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904, the PostmasterGeneral had no right to collect license fees from holders of receiver sets but only from holders of transmitting sets. Mr Justice Ast bury: Where’s your interest in the matter? Mr Ford: As a taxpayer I am concerned at the large sum of public money now in jeopardy. Mr Justice Astbury: We are all tax payers! Mr Ford: But nobody else thought of it. His Honour refused the injunction insofar that it related to the Broadcasting Company and Postmaster-General and adjourned the application in its general terms.
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Southland Times, Issue 19492, 5 March 1925, Page 5
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166WIRELESS LICENSE FEES Southland Times, Issue 19492, 5 March 1925, Page 5
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