SALE OF STAMPS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23767, 21 September 1940, Page 13

SALE OF STAMPS

NEW LICENSING SYSTEM [BY TELEGR.VS.H —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday, New regulations regarding licehces to sell stamps were gazetted on September 5. Postmaster-General, the Hon. P. C. Webb,, said this evennig that up to the present licences to sell stamps had been issued under the Stamp Duties Act, 1923. but under the Adhesive Stamps Act. 1939, the issue of licences, together with certain other, functions concerning stamps, had passed to the Post Office. "Under the new regulations all existing licences to sell stamps will expire six weeks after the coining into operation of the regulations," sa\d Mr. Webb. "Consequently, between now and October 17, the date on which existing licences will expire, licensees who desire to continue selling stamps will require to make application for a new licence. "An important feature of the new system of licensing is that licences 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 (leal 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 licence. The new regulations prescribe a penalty for persons dealing in or selling postage stamps without a licence."