WITHIN TWO YEARS
RADIO IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD WHAT THE FIGURES FORETELL “The rapid strides of motor ownership and telephone use in New Zealand are being easily eclipsed by the radio,” state the Postmaster-General (the Hon. F. Jones). "To-day, over 84 per cent, of the Dominion’s households have licensed radio-receiving sets. Ten years ago this proportion was 14 per cent., and five years later it had risen to 35 per cent. But in the last five years the licenses showed another advance of 49 per cent., and if this rate of progress is maintained, the time when every household in New Zealand will have its radio set is less than two years ahead. "Licensed receiving sets total 317,523, distributed as follows:—Auckland, 101,726; Canterbury, 58,530; Otago. 43.244; Wellington, 114,023.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 May 1939, Page 6
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