UNLICENSED RADIO.
AUCKLAND TRANSMITTER FINED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Aug. C. For having an unlicensed radio transmitter and impersonating radio stations, Gilbert Glazbrook, who was charged on summons but did not appear, was fined £2 and costs on each charge by Mr F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. An inspector said that many complaints had been made that a supposedly unlicensed station was transmitting on call signs ZLIXK and VPK. The inspector heard the transmission of -the calls and recorded the items. On the afternoon of July 4 lie 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, which he was sending to a iriend iri Howe Street. The inspector said that calls were heard as far as Gisborne, Napier and New Plymouth. The Magistrate said that the maximum fine which could he imposed on the first charge was £1(10 and on the second £SO or six months.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 3
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167UNLICENSED RADIO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 3
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