RADIO LICENSES.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13171, 1 February 1936, Page 3

RADIO LICENSES.

LAST YEAR’S LARGE INCREASE. AUSTRALIAN RATH) PASSJvD. Official figures relating to radio licenses issued by the Post Office show that in the year just ended there was an increase of 35.210, the licenses in force on 31st December totalling 18-5,008. These include 182,490 receivers', 1,156 dealers’, 939 amateur experimental, four research experimental, five special, 392 free to the blind, and 22 for broadcasting. Ordinary listeners' licenses are distributed as follows: Auckland 56,916 Canterbury 33,102 Otago 24,912 Wellington 67,560 The popularity of radio broadcasting in New Zealand compared with the Australian Commonwealth can be gauged by the following comparison, the Australian figures being those of wireless licenses in force on November 30th last:

-New Zealand 185,008 11.84 The rapid growth of radio-broad-casting in New Zealand can be illustrated by some brief quotations from the totals of December 31st in various years. In 1924 the licenses for the whole Dominion totalled 4.4-57 ; in 1927 when four national stations were in operation the figure was 38,18*5; and when the present radiobroadcasting board succeeded the former company the licenses numbered 71,456. TTnder the present system of control during which the area of effective coverage has been greatly extended, the listener response has been remarkable, the number of licenses having increased by 113,652 to the total of 185,008.

Sew South Wales .. 9 cc z . 291,924 c c Z §£ s' 10.99 Victoria . 249,351 13.56 Queensland 73,785 7.62 South Australia 81,(Xh 13.73 West Australia 4-5,580 10.22 Ta smania 9.59 Commonwealth . 763,598 11.35