Sheer Bluff

NZ Truth, Issue 1183, 2 August 1928, Page 6

Sheer Bluff

WIRELESS amateurs all over the country are taking the greatest exception to the tactics of the Radio .Broadcasting Company of New Zealand. The Company's announcers are systematically dunning listeners m the hope that those who have not paid their licenses will toe the line. ■ Night after night, with monotonous regularity, • comes the old refrain: "At the Magistrate's Court to-day, 1 a number of listeners were fined" . ■. . and so on; .■'.■: /.,■'■ ' '■ ■. . These kind words, coming m through the, loud speaker, are not inclined to give the Radio Broadcasting Company' any further popularity m the eyes of listeners. ; • • • "When it starts interfering m the matter of licenses, it is actually butting, m on the work of Government Departments. Whilst a handsome — a too handsome— portion of the j revenue \ is handed to the com-: pany under a monopoly granted by our most remarkable Government, the work of collecting does not come under its' control. ■■:.'■, The company j tooy forgets thV.t good bid saying; about a mail's home being his castle. / In. one of its* little ; dunning speeches recently, it stated that m addition to dismantling 'his set, 'the non-license holder must;' put it m a condition so that it could not be used. \ ■■:■. ■; This -was followed up witn sonic light humor,,: starting with '"or .otherwise.':' .: Why was this little piece of bluff put over? Simply to intimidate^ , ■ ■» ■ ■ '