POST AND TELEGRAPHS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1226, 7 September 1911, Page 5

POST AND TELEGRAPHS.

GROWTH OF THE BUSINESS. Sir Joseph Ward presented on Tuesday his seventeenth report as PcstimisterGenrral. When he first assumed that office, in 1891, the revenuo for the year was .£320,058. Last year, for tho first time, it exceeded .£1,01)0,00(1. The revenuo lias doubled sinop 1902. Tlio permanent stair numbers 15'! l officers. The receipts for the year were:— Postal, .£<303.150; telegraph, .£431,11G," total, .C1,037,20(1. The expenditure was:— Postal, ,£167,.100; telegraph, .£110,710 i total. .£911,070. hurine tiio year 100,328 930 letters were delivered in New Zealand, 7,895,251 postcards, 60,001,830 other articles, and 1,281,253 parcels. Jloncv-ordors to 'the number of 509,057 for ,£2,457,523 wore issu c<l, nnd 419,773 for ,£2,12(>.559 were paid. Of postal notes, 1,01i0,959 wero issued for ,£521,913. The Pavings Hank deposits wero .£10,705,939, and tho withdrawals .£9.095,515. The number of telegrams forwarded was 8,559,055. Tile ro wero 2,031,370 bureau communications. Trains Leave Palmerston North For— Dannevirke, at 1.23, 5.30. Auckland, at 3.45. Wangnnui, at 11.42, 12.35, 4.50. Wellington. at 12.40, 2.43. 3.37, 5. DUSTIN'S LTD., LUNCHEON AND KEFKESHMEN'i HOOJIS, THE SQUARE, PALMERSTON NORTH (Six minutes from Kailwny Station.) Punctual, reliable, nnd accurate—that's tho kind of service wo givo you. Whether it's forwarding, Customs work, handling, or furniture removing, wo (to "it well, and do it economically. Tho N Z Express Co., Ltd.—Advt. ' '