UNLICENSED RADIO.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 254, 7 August 1937, Page 2

UNLICENSED RADIO.

FALSE CALL SIGNS GIVEN. (Per Press Association .) AUCKLAND, August 6. For having an unlicensed radio transmitter and for representing it as a radio station, Gilbert Glazbrook, who was charged on a summons but did not appear, was fined £2 and ordered to pay costs on each charge by Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. The radio inspector said that many complaints had been made that a supposedly unlicensed station was transmitting on the call signs ZLIXK and VPK. The inspector heard the transmission of the calls and recorded items on the afternoon of July 4. He called at defendant’s house and found an unlicensed transmitter. Defendant admitted the offence and said he had no idea that his calls were getting outside. He was sending them to a friend in Howe Street. The inspector said the calls were heal’d as far a.way as Gisborne, Napier and New Plymouth. The Magistrate said that the maximum fine which could be imposed on the first charge was £IOO and on the second £750, or six months’ imprisonment.