RADIO LICENCES
DOMINION RETURNS LARGE INCREASE FOR YEAR. An increase of 47,103 in the number of radio licences in force on November 30, 1937, compared with the total at the same date last year, is revealed in a return issued by the Director-Gen-eral of the Post and Telegraph Department, Mr. G. McNamara. The total number of licences of all descriptions in force at the end of November this year was 274,348, compared with last year’s total of 227,245. During the 12 months the number of receiving .licences increased by 46,916, the total now standing at 271,277. Dealers’ licences increased by 43 to 1272 and an additional 27 experimental licences were issued to amateurs, the total number for this class now being 991. Broadcasting licences decreased by one, while one licence was issued for an experimental research station in Wellington. Wellington still heads the list with a total of 96,984 receiving licences lor i the province, Auckland being a close ! second with 86,645. Canterbury has ■ 50,499 receiving licences, and Otago ! 37,149.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 307, 28 December 1937, Page 9
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170RADIO LICENCES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 307, 28 December 1937, Page 9
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