CONSIDERABLE INCREASES
POST OFFICE BUSINESS'AT YULETIDE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. New Zealanders posted more letters, sent more telegram's, and made more toll calls during the recent Christmas period than ever before. During the last half of December nearly 1,000,000 more letters and cards passed through the post-marking machlnese. in the four main centres than in the correspond-, ing period of 1947. Telegraph traffic was up by 12,000 messages, and outward toll calls showed a sharp increase. Letter postings alone at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin totalled 4,175,375, compared with 3,431,290 in the previous year. The telegraph figures for the period December 16 to December 31 were 315,041 messages compared with 303,201 for the corresponding period of 1)947 while outward toll calls for the four centres were 176,843 against 170,257 in the previous year.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 75, 8 January 1949, Page 4
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