LISTENERS’ LICENCES
DOUBLED IN THREE YEARS. Radio receivers’ licences reached a record point on June 30 last with a total of 292,969. The previous highest was on March 31, 'out the latest figures show that this has beep passed to the extent of 8,807 licences. The gain for the year is 37,697 licences, equal to 14.7 per cent. Receivers’ licences on June 30 were distributed as follow:— Wellington, 104,859; Auckland, 93,984; Canterbury. 54,119; Otago, 40,007; Total, 292,969. The advance has been most marked in Wellington with over 13,000 additional licences, while Auckland shows an additional 12,000, Canterbury over 7,000, and Otago over- 5,000 more compared with a year ago. In addition to the receivers’ licences, there are 1,213 dealers’,, 1,033 experimental, 830 free to blind persons, schools, and hospitals, making, with other classes of licence, a grand total of 296,065. Listeners’ licences have more than doubled since January, 1935. ,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 6
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149LISTENERS’ LICENCES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1938, Page 6
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