Dealers' Licenses

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 6

Dealers' Licenses

New Rates from April I AS from April 1, a new schedule of charges for dealers’ licenses will be operative throughout the Dominion. The new rate represents an increase in the main and a_ co-ordination of classes. For the future the license for the three classes of dealers will be as follows :- Class 1-Dealers in the four centres and adjacent areas, £15 per annum. Class II.-Dealers in other places, £7 10s. per annum. Class IIIi-Portable licenses and dealers, without any fixed place of business, £2. The main change above mentioned represents an increase of £5, from £10 to £15. Its effect will probably be in the direction of reducing the number of dealers in main centres and elsewhere. While this may represent ship in some few cases, the gener#l opinion of those most concerned with the good of radio will probably be that it is a move in the right direction. It is an open secret that the number of licensed dealers has been out of proportion to the number of listeners, leaving the turnover for each individual dealer on the small side. A reduction in the number of those competing for the business will naturally tend to increase the turnover of those remaining, with a beneficial effect upon their profits from radio, Listeners will benefit by every improvement that takes place in the status of dealers.