MORE RADIO LICENCES
A MARKED INCREASE INFLUENCE OF ALL BLACKS New licences for radio receiving sets taken out in New Zealand last month totalled 6601. or 1111 more than the increase in August last year. There is no doubt that the All Blacks' tour of Great Britain has stimulated the sale of radio sets, and has accounted in some measure for tho unusually large advance in August licences. The average monthly increase in the past year was just under 3000. At tho end of last month there wero 171,012 paid receiving licences in tho Dominion, an increase of 32,661 on tho figure at the corresponding date last year. Of the present total 52,538 are in the Auckland district, the • other totals being:—Wellington, 63,713; Canterbury, 31,015; Otago, 23,716. f Tho grand total of licences on August 31 was 173,358, or 6687 more than at the end of July. Besides the 171,012 paid receiving licences, there were 1102 dealers' permits, 852 amateur oxperiinental licences, four experimental research, two special, 362 free, 22 broadcasting and two private commercial stations.
Wellington has the largest number of dealers, with 379, tho other totals being:—Auckland, 370; Canterbury, 212; Otago, 141.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22225, 27 September 1935, Page 12
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194MORE RADIO LICENCES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22225, 27 September 1935, Page 12
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