SALE OF STAMPS

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1940, Page 4

SALE OF STAMPS

NEW SYSTEM OF LICENSING. [per press association.] WELLINGTON, September 20. New regulations about licenses to sell stamps were gazetted on September 5. The Postmaster-General- (Mr Webb) said this evening that up to the present licenses to sell stamps had been issued under the Stamp Duties Act, 1923, but under the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1939, issue of licenses, together with certain other functions concerning stamps, had passed to the Post Office. “Under the new regulations, ail existing licenses 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 licenses will expire, licensees who desire to continue selling stamps will require to make application for a new license on a form obtainable at any permanent post office. An important feature of the new system of licensing is that licenses 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 will be made for either class of license. The new regulations prescribe a penalty for persons dealing in or selling postage stamps without a license.”