LOUD-SPEAKER NUISANCE

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 2, 19 July 1935, Page 5

LOUD-SPEAKER NUISANCE

N the short space. of 450, yards in Willis Street, Wellington, the other Wednesday, five loud-speakers were pouring into the ears of passers-by the efforts of community singers in the Town Hall. While community singing may be an excellent tonic for. the people who are there, and a broadcast of it a cheerful thing for country and suburban listeners, it is definitely not intended for a busy city street. Quite apart from the fact that the ordinary noises of the city are wearying enough, one should remember that listening should be an act as intentional and deliberate as broadcasting itself, The loudspeaker nuisance is not confined to city streets. Everyone has run across the man who makes the neighbourhood hideous with noises from his wireless set-a wretch who abuses the privilege of broadcast reception. Neither the Broadcasting Board nor the Post and Telegraph Department has any power to protect the individual against this form of nuisance; only the local authority can do so. If an appeal to neighbourly consideration does nat succeed, a combination of three householders appealing to the local authority ought to be able to put things right-