Radi-o 'Grady

NZ Truth, Issue 1178, 28 June 1928, Page 6

Radi-o 'Grady

IF you happened to be indiscreet enough to have two wireless masts

disfiguring the sky-line and a perfectly good valve set m operation, but without the requisite license m your possession, the last person you'd want to meet would be the radio inspector. But. if the inspector happened to be F. J. O'Grady, of Dunedin, the unpleasant contretemps wouldn't be as unpleasant as it might have been. For F.J.O'G. is about as breezy a civil servant as can be found m Dunedin. He positively radiates geniality. Although a through-and-through New Zealander, he'd need to undergo no alien test to get into the Emerald Islel . He does not particularly relish haling before the bench an unfortunate youth with an unlicensed crystal set or an absent-minded person with a "supet-het." who forgets to "get things done." But he knows that a law that's not enforced is a law that should be repealed. There are other and more pleasant sides to his job, however. Tracking down howlingr valves or oscillating Oswalds and unfolding the technique of radio to amateurs, for instance. If 'tis true that' radio itself is only m its embryonic stage, then O'G. should go far m his life's calling. ■•