INTERFERENCE BUGBEAR

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 16 November 1934, Page 5

INTERFERENCE BUGBEAR

‘ay'‘nE announcement of the personnel of the Radio Interference Advisory Committee looks as if something definite is under way tor the checking of interference. Regulations were adopted early last month dealing with this greatest of ali radio: nuisances, and listeners will be happy to know that the work of elimination is being pressed forward with all speed. but interference has heen tolerated for too long in this country. Listening in for people in some parts of New Zealand has become more of a penance than a pleasure, and the inability to appeal to anything but the offender's sense of fair play has meant that the position has been growing steadily worse. But now, with the law on the side of the liscener, steps may be taken against the causes of interference, and "radio without tears’’ should be possible. The committee has not been set up a day too soon. With increasing supplies of cheap hydro-electric. power. available, New Zealand is turning eagerly to electricity --and the causes of interference are being multiplied in proportion. However, the regulations now demand that one’s neighbour be considered, and the day is rapidly approaching when interference will be a thing of the past.