HEAVY PENALTY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 49, 22 June 1928, Page 4

HEAVY PENALTY

IMPOSED FOR NO LICENSE. A FINE of £3 and costs was imposed on a Wireless listener in Wellington last week by Mr. IX. Page, $.M., for being in possession of a wireless set without having renewed his license. The listener, Garlie Bitossi, sought the sympathy of the Bench hy explaining that he was not an expert operator, and could not "even get Christchurch." | This plea, however, failed to move the Magistrate, whose dictum, "If you, have your set you must pay your license fee,’ heralded the imposition of a £8 fine, plus the usual costs, Two other offenders were also before the Court, one being fined 10s., and the other £1, , t is understood that there has been quite a little rush of belated listeners in Wellington Jately, and this is «.ttributed to the attractiveness of the 2YA orchestra, plus the unseen pressure of the "trouble-finding’ car, and its sleuth-like tendencies,