POST AND TELEGRAPH.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 22, 26 January 1924, Page 12

POST AND TELEGRAPH.

REVENUE FOR QUARTER. j MAIN CENTRES COMPARED. According to a return published in the ".Jew Zealand Gazette" showing post and telegraph revenue for the quarter ended December 31 last, the four main centres stand as follows: _- Postal. Telegraph. Total. £ £ £ Wellington .. 73,085 118,233 191,310 Auckland .. 68,863 111.835 180,(198 Chris-church 38,879 83,863 122,742 Dunedin .... 23,983 38,182 02,105 The total amount of the money-orders issued during the quarter was £1,055,178 (£1.006.416 for December quarter, 1922); 'while that of the money-orders paid was £974,258 ( £919,513). In the four chief centres the total amounts of the money-orders issued were:—Auckland, £202*030: Christchurch, £98,817; Dunedin, £8L633; Wellington £194,586. The total amounts of the money-orders paid were:—Auckland, £253,559; Christchurch, £115,110; Dunedin, £88,113; Wellington, £204,150. P.O. Savings, Bank. For the December quarters of 1923 and 1922 the Post Office Savings B-ink figures compare a. under, those for 1922 being placed in parentheses:—Accounts opened, 25,326 (16,944); accounts closed, 22,240 (15,467); number of deposits, 290,640 (262,479) ; amount of depo..ts, £7,827,373 ( £0.342,609) ; amount of withdrawals. £8,285,283 ( £6,850.058) ; excess of withdrawals over deposits, £157,905 ( £508,079). For the four centres the figure-? compare as under: — Deposits. Withdrawals. £ £ Wellington 1.807.18!) 1,860,405 Auckland ........ 1,575,085 133.166 Christchurch .... 1.109,410 1,186.950 Dunedin 554.555 702,770