WIRELESS INSTALLATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 499, 22 July 1932, Page 8

WIRELESS INSTALLATIONS

HEW AEGIT •ATfOi'iS GAZETTED SAFEGUARDING THE POST OFFICE Press Association. —Cony right. WE LI i INC! TON. Thursday. Regu. lations as to the granting :c£ licenses for the installation’, , working and sale of radio apparatus are gazetted tonight, it stipulated that any person auhorised by the Government may in case of emergency assume cciurol (.vor the transmission or reception of messages by the apparatus of any licensed radio station. imcepl as provided in the interna, ioual radio telegraph convention 01 m the regulations, ic-r with the spa. ual authority of the Minister, a radio Pation shall not be used in any way to compete with the Government communication services, and shall i,of transmit or receive radio cnm-

-Ulrica lions, the transmission or reception of which is calculated in the judgment of the Minister to cause loss of revenue to the Post and Telegraph Department. Nevertheless mes. sages icf warning, having for then object the preservation of human life, the protection of property or the detection of crime, may be transmitted without reference to (he Minister. Under the regulations relating to hr adcasting stations it is provided that a licensee shall, if the Minister directs, debar from announcing duties any person who in the Minister’s opinion is unsuitable for such duties; also that a broadcasting stat'on shall not be established in any location where in the judgment of the Minister undue interference with the operation of any Government, sta. lion or other station open for general public correspondence is likely to be caused, or where the establishment would be inimical to the public in i crest.

Subject, to specified provisions, it is stipulated that no form of advertising shall be undertaken by a

licensee from any broadcasting station unless specially authorised by the Minister. The specified proyis. ions are embodied in the following clauses; The call sign of the broad casting station shall as a general rule he announced every 30 minutes but may, if desired, he given at the com mencement of each item. The full name and address of the station, may, however, be announced only at flie beginning and end of the programme. Brief descriptive remarks relative thereto may be made at the commencement of each item of the broadcasting station’s programme. A station* shall not be used for tbe dissemination of propaganda of a controversial nature but shall be restricted to matter ol educative, informative or entertain, iug character, such as news, lectures useful information, religious services musical or elocutionary* entertainment and other items of general public interest as may he approved by the Minister.

The licensee shall supervise with all reasonable care and to the satis, faction of the Minister the; matter broadcast, and shall carefully select the matter to be broadcast in order to give effect to the requirements ol this regulation. A licensee shall at request trails, mil, free of charge to the Government, as a part of the regular programme of any broadcasting station, any announcement by the Govern, ment or by any department.