RADIO CONTROL

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1932, Page 2

RADIO CONTROL

•PROTECTING P. AND T DEPT

NEW -REGULATIONS ANNOUNCED

WELLINGTON, July 26. Regulations -published in this .week’s Gazette in connection with the control of radio broadcasting ar e almost entirely a cqnsolidation of thosa issued by the Post and Telegraph Department in 1925. To meet the developments since then in radio matte.y, and to bring radio regulations in New. Zealand into conformity with the international telegraph regulations, a few amending clauses have been included. With one or two exceptions, however, these are or a technical character, and of little, if any, interest to the general public. It is laid ; down that no radio station shall be used in any way to compete with .Government communication ssr"iees, and shall not fra remit or receive radio communication, the ti-ansmkt ion or • reception of which is calcu’ated, in the judgment of the Minister, to cause loss of revenue to the Post and Telegraph Department. . Messages of -warning, however, having for their object the preservation of human ilife, the protection of property, or the detection of crime, may be transmitted without reference to -the Minister. This regulation is' followed Up by. ft clause restfictfiiig ■ newfpapers in the publication of hews received pei l medium of radio. Except with the permission of the Min_ ister, no person shall commit to writing for the purpose of publication in a newspaper any matter transmitted from any radio station. The" only new -section in the regula- ■ tions relates to the control of private commercial stations. The Minister is authori'ed to : issue licenses for the establishment of private commercin' stations on land for the exchange of correspondence with certain other stations (fixed or mobile), which shall he named in. the license. 'Such stations may be licensed either for general public Correspondence or for:, the . private correspondence of the owner, provided that the of general public correspondence with .mobile; stations is not -permitted. , - ; * ''\ - Private commercial station-, are.;;.tq be divided in-three classes, these to be determined by the Minister. ; The classification arid fees for -the- variousci'a'wes is/as/follows Class 1 Station, ifirst- ' class radio telegraph ' operator’s certificate, *£lo 10s; Class II station, secondclass radio telegraph operator’s, certificate £5 .5s ; Class 111 'station; (a) using telegraphy, third-class , radiewte'egr.apli operator's . certificate, arid ' (b) using telephony, a radio telephone, operator’s certificate, .'£2 2s.''Private commercial stations, authorised to engage in th e .service of public correspondence' must •be .'fcflniiected With the genefai communication"' system. The requirement!; of this section may, ,at the ' Minister’s- diScretidn, be deemed .to be fulfilled if: one of the stations of the private., radio system is' provided with vapid and direct means for the exchange of tvaffla with n telephone or telegraph office connected with the general communication system of the Post andi 'Telegraph Department. The apparatus used in any private commercial station must be capable "of .transmitting arid receiving at a speed of at least tipial ta 30 words per minute.