RADIO LICENSES

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 12 July 1935, Page 60

RADIO LICENSES

Steady Increase in Figures (THE steady increase in the number ef radio licenses issued by the Post and Telegraph Department in May. cf this year is further indication of the continued and inereasing popularity of broadeasting in the Dominion. The increase over: the number of licenses issued at the ecorrespending time last year remains at mueh the same figure as in previous months, 35,000. At Mey 31, the number oi receivers licensed in Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury ‘and Otago respectively were 48,142, 58.955, 28,701 and 21,710, making a total fer New Zealand of 157,508, compared with 120,893 at the cutrespending date last year. There was an inerease of 61 in the number of dealers’ licenses issued as compared with last year, and an inervease of 72 in the number ef licenses issued to experimental amateurs. The free ist was increased from 252 to 339. Broadcasting stations were reduced by one in number to a tetal of 24 licensees.

would like to see others in, to wit, 11 years ‘without hearing a note of music. We are not all "waybacks" nor. © content, either, ‘to "rest and be thankfu’," nor to emulate a domestic pet’ which subsists dumbly on its master’s offerings-I am,. etc., ONLY A LISTENER. Wellington,