RADIO LICENSE FEES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 11

RADIO LICENSE FEES.

i TO THE KDITOB OJ "THE PUSS." | Sir, —Last February I installed a ' |*iieless set at my home, and on applying for a license found the fee was 8s year. This I cheerfully paid, only to |find, when the license was posted to me ; J* fortnight later, that it expired on. ; | Much 31st, and that if I wished to <listen-in for the ensuing year it would be neeessary to renew my license at the new fee of thirty shillings; othcr- , I would be liable to a heavy fine. ' Imagine the disgust of on© whose total reached high-water mark at i tigliteenpence a week. • Not all the heart-to-heart talks in world could move the red-tape offi- ( -'Oftl from his '' Law-bf-the-Medes-and-attitude when I again made lapplieation to have the exorbitant new * if*?" educed by eight shillings; so, , wing a radio enthusiast and a conMietitious kind of chap, I, unwillingly you' may be sure, paid the ; thirty shillings; but before doing so, kjttada enquiries at the local broadcast- ; «g^tation - as to what kind of concert • r® l9 might' expect for one's money, and j-J? 8 told by the ciiief serang himself A »#at there would be "four real good i £°MBrts a week.'' • u unpatiently I awaited the' first coa- > gods! Pianola rolls and I j records played twice over v "?? "No. 1 anl No. 2 instrument." The . "for 'the benefit of our country ruling prices of butter, J- and mutton in the Old Country, fS? ® tate of the market generally, /" cornet solo and a recitation in between. The next conas aa orchestral one,- and these we have been listening to alJsb Ja* ,u *Hy' since April Ist.—Yours, etc., ft H OQth IJG 1JG H S ™