SALES OF STAMPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 253, 23 September 1940, Page 3

SALES OF STAMPS.

LICENSING REQUIREMENTS

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, Sept. 20. New regulations regarding licenses to sell stamps were gazetted on September 5. The Postmasteri-General said this evening that up to the present licenses to sell stamps had been issued under the Stamp Duties Act, 1023, but under the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1939, the issue of licenses, together with certain other functions concerning stamps, had passed to the Rost Office.

“Under the new regulations all existing licenses to sell stamps will expire six weeks after the coming into operation of the regulations,” said the Minister. “Consequently between now and October 17, t'ne date on which the existing licenses will expire, licensees who desire to continue selling stamps will require to make application for a new license on a form obtainable at any permanent post office. “An important feature of the new system of licensing is that the licenses will henceforth be of two categories: One for issue to those persons who desire only to sell stamps 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 dealers will in future require to be licensed. No charge will be made for either class of license.

“The new regulations prescribe a penalty for persons dealing in or selling postage stamps without a license.