MORE RADIO SETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22972, 25 February 1938, Page 13

MORE RADIO SETS

DOMINION FIGURES ANNUAL RETURNS COMPARED A further substantial increase in the number of radio licences in force in New Zealand is shown in the official return supplied by the Director-General of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. G. McNamara. The total number of licences current at the end of January was 267,093, compared with 225,370 at the same period of last year. These totals represent the aggregate of receivers', dealers', experimental and a number of free licences, in addition to those for broadcasting. Receiving licences increased by 41,428 and the total is now 263,995, comprising the following figures from the four I>rovinces: —Wellington, 92,150; Auckand, 86,534; Canterbury, 49,385; Otago, 35,926. Auckland, however, leads with 466 in the number of dealers 5 licences in force, Wellington having 417, Canterbury 216 and Otago 158. Amateur experimental licences in the Wellington district number 425 and there are 269 in Auckland, 189 in Canterbury - and 127 in Otago. There is only one research experimental licence in the Dominion, this being in Wellington. Broadcasting licences total 20, one less than in January, 1937, while the number of free licences, which are issued to blind people, charitable and benevolent institutions and private schools where the sets are used for educational purposes, has increased from 546 to 794.