POSTAL REVENUE
All-round Increase
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ELEVEN MONTHS’ FIGURES
A further substantial increase in Post Office revenue is shown in the figures for eleven months ended February last. The Postmaster-General, Hon. F. Jones, said last evening that there had been an all-round increase in the department’s services, and that the aggregate gain was £298,019. The comparative figures under the main headings are as follows:—-
The increase in each of the four main classes was;—Postages, £111.936; telegraphs, £21,a93; tolls, £04,600; telephones’, £81,735. The total revenue from all classes was £3,500,287, as compared with £3.202,268 for the previous eleven months.
1936-37 1935-36 (11 months) (11 months) £ £ Postages .. • Telegraphs . .. 1,241,51-1 291,210 1,129,578 269,617 Tolls .. 508,637 454,034 Telephones .. 1,220,324 1,138,589
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 10
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115POSTAL REVENUE Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 10
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