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Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 51, 30 June 1933, Page 38

N order to encourage the sale of licenses, the Italian radio authorities offer a reward to all listeners of twenty lire on proof they have induced a friend to register a wireless receiver. Owners of unlicensed radio sets ave very heavily fined. s s * GoUTH AFRICA was responsible for opening a new chapter in radis history when Cape Town addressed the British Commonwealth of Nations from the top of Table Mountain. The proceedings were rebroadcast in Wngland by the B.B.C. and the BHarl of Clarendon, Governor-General of South Africa, inaugurated the broadcast from the study of his home in the city. TPHE French Financial Commission has adopted certain paragraphs of the new Budget which calls for a listening tax on all wireless receivers. In addition, a surtax of 15 per cent. will be charged upon the retail price of all valves sold,