RADIO LICENCES
More Than 85 Per Cent. Of Households Have Sets Immediately following March 31, the date for renewal of radio listeners' licences, there is always' a temporary drop in numbers, but the recovery this year lias been extremely rapid, and at June 30 the total of 320,402 licences was 3897 higher than the previous highest point, which had been attained on March 31. The advance for the year has been 27,600, or 9.3 per cent., which means that more limn 95 per cent, of the households of the Dominion are now provided with radio sets. New Zealand’s radio receiving licences compare well in numbers with those of Ihe Australian Government, where the ratio a 100 of population, according to the latest ollicial figures, is 16.29. The corresponding percentage iu New Zealand is 19.8.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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134RADIO LICENCES Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 264, 5 August 1939, Page 8 (Supplement)
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