RADIO LICENCES
NEW "HIGH POINT"
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 has been extremely rapid, and at the end of 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 27,606, or 9.3 per cent., which means that over 85 per cent, of the households of the Dominion are.now provided with radio sets. .
NeAv Zealand's radio receiving licences compare v/ell in numbers with those of the Australian Commomvealth, Avh'ere the ratio per hundred of population, according to the latest official figures, is 16.29. The corresponding percentage in NeAV Zealand is 19.8.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 11
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