NEW AND USED STAMPS.'

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 7

NEW AND USED STAMPS.'

LICENSES NOW REQUIRED. l WELLINGTON, Friday. 1 New regulations regarding licenses to ' sell stamp* were gazetted on September 5. The Postmaster-General, the Hon. P. C. Webb, said this evening that up to the present licenses to sell stamps had been Issue! under the Stamp Duties Act, 1923, but under the I Adhesive Stamps Act, the issue of licenses, together with certain other functions concerning stamps, had passed to the Post Office. "Under the new regulations all existing licenses to sell stamps will .expire six weeks after the coming into operation of the regulations," said Mr. Webb. "Consequently, between now and October 17, the date on which 'existing licenses will expire, licensees I who desire to contlniu? selling stamps will require to make application for a new- license. "An important feature of the new system of licensing is that licenses will henceforth be of two categories, one for i issue to those persons who desire only to sell 6tamps to the public for ordinary >( use, and another for persons and firms : who deal in unused obsolete as well as ; current stamps. In other words, persons and firms in business as stamp 1 dealers will in future require to be ' licensed. No charge will be made for either class of license. The new regula- : tions prescribes a penalty for persons l dealing in or selling postage stamps > without a license"—A&pnJ,