SELLING OF STAMPS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1940, Page 8

SELLING OF STAMPS

By Telegraph—Press Association.

NEW REGULATIONS MADE

Wellington, Last Night. New regulations regarding licenses to sell stamps 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 issued under the Stamp Duties Act, 1923, but under the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1939, the issue of licenses together with cer fain 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 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 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.