NOISE THAT ANNOYS

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 6

NOISE THAT ANNOYS

-'" When Oscillating Oswalds " Get Busy ' THE man who has paid away more than he can afford for his v wireless set does so m the fond hope that he will have at his command a good reception of Australian and other overseas stations. ..:/•■> ; : .

IF' he lives m the country he is all right. He is not; liable to a form of torture and interference beside which all the reputed horrors of the nether regions are mild. .•;' - . - For every good set m the cities there are about fifteen superduds. These are mostly inefficient boxes of junk, but they are the pride and dejight. of their owners. ■When the: New Zealand stations close down .at night; these ghastly caricatures, of wireless sets try to pick up Australian stations. Their owners ought to know that they haven't a hope of getting anywhere more than, two or three blocks away, but they turn on the juice and — oh, the row! A convention of tomcats could not

make more noise. The "Oscillating: Oswalds" are on the job. Something should be done, to stop this "racket." 1 ' Government inspectors are going about trying to find children operating crystal sets without a ■licence. • . ■ . •; Why do they, not, turn theiri : efforts to tracing down some ofr the people who are not fit to \ bs trusted with a toy train, not to mention apparatus that is capable • of upsetting the ether for miles around? ..•'■' The New Zealand listener-in pays one of the heaviest licence fees m the world, , and he is entitled to a little consideration and protection from noise nuisances. .