RADIO IN AUSTRALIA
AMENDING AGREEMENT BRUCE INTRODUCES BILL By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. CANBERRA, Friday. In the House of Representatives the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bruce, introduced a Bill to amend the agreement between the Commonwealth Government and the Amalgamated Wireless Company of Australia, Limited. The Bill provides for the free use of patent rights to licensed broadcasting stations, radio dealers and listeners-in from the Amalgamated Wireless Company, with the payment to the company by the Commonwealth Government of 3d a month on behalf of each licensed listener, and also for the revision by the company of the stations which it at present owns. The new agreement is to remain operative for five years, and the Commonwealth and the company must agree on the form of licence which is to be signed by users of the patents. The company agrees to grant a licence free of royalty to every newspaper and every broadcasting station in the Commonwealth, for the purpose of receiving official news bulletins from Britain.
The company also agrees to prosecute as expeditiously as possible the actions which have already been instituted for the infringement of its patent rights. It is agreed that the actions are for rights that are important to broadcasting, and that unless these actions are finished within 12 months in favour of the company the agreement provides that the company will commence corresponding actions in New Zealand.
modern equipment The provision dealing with the retention of its stations by the company includes a clause that all its equipment shall be modernised and the stations reorganised. Payments to me Postmaster-General’s Department p res Pect of messages handled by the rest Office are eliminated, while the commonwealth promises to provide me company with the necessary laud or “ ne connections and internal communieations at the usual rates. The company will not be allowed to ransmit or to receive inland mes■mges, unless required to do so by the ommonwealth in cases of interruption ~,“® line circuits. The company H be entitled to establish and operr ® commercial wireless services beAustralia and ships at sea, and . if aircraft, and between the terriN'Z 68 and °* ber countries.—A. and
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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355RADIO IN AUSTRALIA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9
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