POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT
« —: A YEAR'S OPERfVTIOKS. ; The report of the Post .'nd Telegraph Department for the year tmlod March I 31, 1918. wis presented to Parliament - yesterday. It "mentions that the business : of the Department vns very satisfactory, 1 despite the ,war. The revenue amounted 1 to .£1,837,260, and the ■■ expenditure to ■£1,489,446, leaving a balance of The regular expenditure shows a-serious riso owing to the great' advance in the cost of materials.-: ■■■'.'• The funds at the credit of depositors in the Post. Office ■ Sttvihgsr-Banli exceeded .029,000,000 lit the end of the year. The deposit? (hiving 1017 exceeded the withdrawals by 42.fiW.360. . •.■ Over 52 per cent, of the permanent shift' eligible-for military service and over 300 casual' employees joined: the Kxpeilitiomuy ..Force. ■ the lose of the service.* of many irxporienced officers, the Department was able to release 'every medically fit matt <f the First Division, 'exclusive of ft few wireless operators (retained at the 'efluest of the Imperial Government. At. the snino time I the Department was r.ble to continue the full services. The. calling up of the Second Division made necessary some curtailment of., services.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 37, 7 November 1918, Page 8
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