UNAUTHORISED WIRELESS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13594, 8 October 1914, Page 5

UNAUTHORISED WIRELESS.

[United Peess Association.]

j Wellington, Oct. 7. Hugo Scawakl, charged with establishing iii a house in Taranaki street a wireless installation capable of receir-. irur messages and transmitting messages, without first obtaining the permission of the Governor in Council,, appeared before Mr JRiddell, S.M.. this, afternoon. It. was stated that Seawald was a British subject, having been naturalised in Australia. He had obtained the apparatus from a local electrical supply store for experimental purposes. It* was very weak, hut an expert in wireless telegraphy said it- only required more cell's, to enable messages to be sent >several miles. Counsel for the defence contended that the persons ivho sold the apparatus to the defendant should bo prose-