ILLEGAL RADIO CALLS
TRANSMITTER UNLICENSED FINES OF £4 IMPOSED. (By Telegxapn.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Friday. For having an unlicensed radio transmitter and impersonating radio stations, Gilbert Glazbrook, who was charged on summons but did not appear, was fined £2 and costs on each charge by Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., in the Police Court to-day. The inspector said many complaints had been made that a supposedly unlicensed station was transmitting on call signs of ZLIXK and VPK. The inspector heard the transmission of calls and recorded items on the aftefnoon of July 4. He called at defendant’s house and found an unlicensed transmitter. Defendant admitted the offence and said he had no idea his calls were getting outside. He was sending them to a friend in Howe Street. The inspector said the calls were heard as | far as Gisborne, Napier and New Plymouth. | The magistrate said the maximum fine which could be imposed on the first charge was £IOO and on the second £SO or six months’ imprisonment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 10
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167ILLEGAL RADIO CALLS Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 10
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