During Christmas and New ..Year the number of greetings telegrams lodged throughout the Dominion was 380,502, representing an Increase over the previous 'year of 38,880. This was; a rise of 11.38 per cent, in both volume and revenue. There were 311,033 Christmas greetings and 69,410 New Year messages. It was in 1933 that the Post Oflice made its telegram greetings service more attractive by providing appropriate “received” forms in colour. The result was a remarkable increase in the traffic, which more than doubled next year, the 1932 total of 66,188 rising in 1933 to 161,089. The recent Christmas business shows an improvement on that of 1933 to the extent'of more than 200,000 messages.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 128, 24 February 1938, Page 13
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