BUYING A RADIO

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 10, 15 September 1933, Page 15

BUYING A RADIO

Law on Heels of Persons Keeping Demonstration Sets For More Than Seven Days

Persons who retain radio sets on demonstration for longer than seven days make themselves liable to prosecution. This point was emphasised in the Magistrate’s Court, at Christchurch recently, when 34 prosecutions for using unlicensed wireless sets were heard by Mr. H. P. Lawry, S.M. _ The Magistrate said that he wanted the point to be made clear. One defendant said that he had understood that it could be arranged for demonstration sets to be kept longer than seven days. "To show how much I know about it,’’ he said, "I wrote in to the broadcasting company asking them to send out a message on a little girl’s birthday. They would know straight away that I did not have a licence." "Have you a set now?" asked the Magistrate. "No," replied defendant, "I have been waiting to see how I got on here."’ After the Court closed, the radio inspector (Mr. T. Gates) commented to a "Sun" reporter that even if a dealer had several different kinds of sets he was expecte 1 under the regulations to demonstrate them in seven days. It was not permissible to demonstrate each make of set for seven days.