LICENCE STATISTICS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 20

LICENCE STATISTICS

The following figures show the number of radio licences ia New Zealand at tho end'of October: —

0T.571 1,198 2liO 230 The .8.8.C. recently announced that the number of licences issued to the end of July was 3,162,-160, exclusive of the 17,019 licences issued free to the blind. In November, 1024, the number of licences issued reached the 1,000,000 mark. By April, 1926, the number was 2,000,000. Tho steady increase is shown by the following table: —Fresh licences issued in the first six mouths of 1027, 121,503; corresponding period of 1928, ]28,010; corresponding period of 1929, 162,432; corresponding period of 1930, 201,854. An official of tho 8.8.C. said: "We estimate five listeners to each wireless licence, and on that basis we have a potential audience of 15,000,000 listeners. It is further estimated that there is a wireless set in two out of every three homes in the country. Saturation point will not bo reached until there is a wireless set in every home, and that is our aim." j

Transmuting deceiving IScceiriiij,'. Dealers. Special. Free. Auckland 17,531! 2'.H S:! 08 Canterbury .. 9,707 23:! 47 55 otaso b 1 :j!)5 172 sr sr. Wellington 24,233 'ISIi 100 01