TELEVISION LICENCES

Press, Volume C, Issue 29556, 4 July 1961, Page 14

TELEVISION LICENCES

No Rush To Pay Although an estimated 2000 to 3000 television sets have been bought in the Christchurch area, only 73 licences were reported as having been sold up to noon yesterday, the senior supervisor in the Post Office engineer’s branch (Mr J. L. S. Loader) said last evening. A period of grace extending to Monday. July 17. was being given to the owners, after which the licensing regulations would be strictly enforced, said Mr Loader. Television licences were Issued und»r slightlv different conditions from radio licences, he added There was no multiple licence of the kind taken out bv boarding houses and hotels for radio sets, so that a hotel proprietor would have to pay separately for every set in his guest rooms and a boarder at a hostel would need his own licence. Sets in bars, common rooms, and the rooms set aside for family and staff, however, were covered by the one licence Boarders in private homes needed their own television licences for their sets, as with sound radio. Where re’s were held for hire, the hirer was resnons’ble for the licence fee? The sets would carry a tag supplied bv the Post Office on payment of the f»e. This did not apply to hire purchase. The radio licence free list covering schools and other institutions, applied equally to television, except for the Foundation for the Blind. A television licence did not cover the owner’s broadcast radio sets.