RADIO REGULATIONS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 281, 22 July 1932, Page 5

RADIO REGULATIONS

(Press. Assn.-

iSSUE OF LICENSES GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND' STRj.'CT SUPERVISION J ENFORCED • / EMERGENCY MESSAGES

-By Telegrai^h — Copyright).

WELLINGTON, Thursday. , Regulations/ds to the granting of licenses for,/ 'the installation of radio apparatus wore gazetted to-night. : It is stipulated that any person authorised by the Government may, in I the case of emergency, assume eonirol for transmission or reception of messages by the apparatus of any licensed radio station, cxcept as provided ;by the international radio telegraph | convention regulations. With.out special authority of the Minister, radio stations shall not be used in any way likely to intertoro with Government communication.-;, and no person shall transmit or rerieive radio com--munications the traiismission or reception of which, is calculated in the judgment of the Minister to cause loss of revenue to the Posi and Telegraph Department. Nevertheless, messages of warning for the proteetion of | human life, proteetion of prbperty, or the detection of crime, may he transmitted without reference to the Minister. In the regulations relating to broadcasting stations, it is provided that the licensee shall, if the Minister directs, debar from announcing duties, any person, who in the Minister's opinion, is unsuitable for such duties, also that the broadcasting stations shall not he established in any loeation, where in the judgment of the Minister undue interference with the apparatus of Government stations or other stations opened for general or public purposes, is likely to be caused, or I where the establlshment would be inimieal to public interest. Advertising Regulations Subject to speeified conditions it is stipulated that no form of advertising shall be undertaken by the licensee from any broadcasting station unless speeially authorised by the Minister. The speeial conditions embody the fol-

lowing clauses: (1) The call sign of the, broadcasting station shall, as a general rule, be announced every 30 minutes, but may, if desired, be given at the commencement of each item. (2) The full name and addmss of the station may, however, be announced only at the_ beginning and end of the programme. (3) A number of descriptive remarks relative thereto may be made at th'e commencement of each broadcasting programme. (4) A broad casting station may not be used for the dissemination of propaganda of a controversial nature, but shall be restricted to matters of an educative, informative or entertaining character, news, lectures, useful information, religious services, musical or elocutionary entertainments, or other items of general public interest which may be approved by the Minister. The licensee shall supervise to the satisfaction of the Minister all matters broadcast, and shall carefully select the matter to be broadcast. In order to give effect to the requirements of these regulations, the licensee shall, at the request of tho Minister, transmit free of charge to the Government as a part of the regular programme of the broadcasting station, any announcement by the Government or by any Government department.