DOMINION ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1927, Page 1

DOMINION ITEMS.

[BY TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. ] RADIO DEALERS REGULATIONS. AYELLING TON, May 27. Regulations governing radio broadcasting stations and the sale of radio apparatus are published in a Gazette issued last evening. Radio dealers’ licenses are to be divided into four classes :-

(1) Licenses of dealers carrying on business in any of the four nunn centres and those of dealers without any fixed place of business who are to be charged a fee of £lO per year. (2) Those of dealers doing business in other centres having a population of more than 5000, to he charged £5. (3) Licenses of dealers in centres of populations of 5000 or less, £2. (4) Portable licenses of dealers without fixed place of business, £2. For a period of less than one year the fees are to be respectively: (1) 10s 8d per month or fraction of a month ,with minimum, of £2 10s; (2) 8s 4d per month or fraction, minimum £1 os ; (3) 3s 4d per month or fraction, minimum 10s; (4) 3s 4d per month or fraction, minimum 10s. A radio dealer’s license is to include authority for the radio dealer to establish and operate for the purpose of demonstration only at the place of business mentioned in the license, or at the place of residence of a Class I A'. liceiLsee, or for a period not exceeding seven days at tlie premises of a prospective purchaser, or elsewhere if specially authorised by the Minister, a set of radio receiving apparatus. The receiving apparatus is to be operated in strict accordance with the amateur radio regulations, 1925.

MAN INJURED. AUCKLAND EAST, May 31. AYilliam Forsyth, married, aged 20, employed at Ain.son Brothers’ shipyard, Freeman’s Bay, was badly burned by an explosion while he was filling a generator used in connection with a welding plant. Ite is in the hospital in a serious condition, 1 1 is eyesight being endangered.