RADIO LICENCES INCREASE
OVER 42,000 LAST YEAR FEWER DEALERS IN BUSINESS Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. At December 31, J92S, there were 42,501 receiving radio licences on issug in the Dominion, compared with 38.185 at the end of 1927. Transmitting licences increased in the same period from 136 to 169, while dealers’ licences decreased from 1.728 to 1,464. Broadcasting licences, which totalled seven in 1927, now total 14, of which five are held in Otago, four in Wellington and three in Canterbury. The number of receiving licences in Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury and Otago compare surprisingly, there being 14,437 in Auckland, 17.272 in Wellington, 8,167 in Canterbury, and 2,925 in Otago. About the same ratio is observed in transmitting and dealing licences in each province.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 5
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123RADIO LICENCES INCREASE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 5
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