SALE OF STAMPS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23131, 21 September 1940, Page 14

SALE OF STAMPS

— NEW SYSTEM OF LICENSING WELLINGTON. September 20. New regulations about licences to sell stamps were gazetted on September 5. The Postmaster-General (the Hon. P. C. Webb) said this evening that up to the present licences to sell stamps had been ' issued under the Stamp Duties Act, 1023, but under the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1039, issue of licences, together with certain other functions concerning stamps, had passed to the Post Office. “Under the new regulations, all existing licences 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 existing licences will expire, licensees who desire to continue selling stamps will require to make application for a new licence on a form obtainable at any permanent post office, “An important feature of the new system of licensing is that licences 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 wifi be made, for either dags of licence. The new regulations prescribe a penalty for persons dealing in or selling postage stamps without a licence."