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RADIO BROADCASTING SERVICE. The number of licensed radio listeners at the 31st March was 285,007, ail increase of 43,699 over the number at the end of the previous year. Receiving-sets are now installed in 77*6 per cent, of the households in the Dominion, while the number of sets per hundred of population is 17-7. DETAILED REPORT. A detailed report of the Department's activities during the year ended on the 31st March, 1938, follows. I have the honour to be, Your Excellency's most obedient servant, General Post Office, Wellington, C. 1, E. Jones. 27th June, 1938.

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