INCREASE IN LICENSES.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4211, 4 June 1935, Page 5

INCREASE IN LICENSES.

Tlie new Radio Board is laced with the very pleasant news that license figures now total over 150,000. It is a foundation upon which they may build some thing in the future, and in that they are more fortunate than was the previous Board, which had to lay foundations. Actually the sum total of listeners licenses is a few hundred under the 150.000, but this figure is passed when we add dealers and other licenses. Hough ly speaking, these figures mean that in a period of one year some 30,000 non-lis toning members of the general public hove been persuaded to become listeners. Wei liimton loads the way in the totals with over 55.000, and Otago is lowest with a mere 20.000. Indeed, the total listeners in Otam) and Canterbury do not amount to as many as there are in the Wellington ;u-ea. What these license figures do m dieatc is that the Board is in the pos session of a fairly comfortable income, made all the more comfortable by tin fact that it is not only steady, but in creasing (says the Dominion). It re mains for them to put the money to tinbest use.