POST AND TELEGRAPH
HEAVY WORK AT CHRISTMAS.
The Postmaster-General (Sir Joseph Ward) has furnished the following par. ticulars of the Post and Telegraph business transacted at the seventeen' chief offices in the Dominion on 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 24th December, 1917 :—
The stamp sales, amounted to £21,279, an increase of 3.69 per cent, over the sales for the corresponding period of the previous year.
Tho number of bags and hampers of mail matter forwarded from the. seventeen offices was 39,673 Of this number 7834 were forwarded from Auckland, 7177 from Wellington, 5900 from Christchurch, and 4456 from Dunedin.
Telegrams forwarded numbered 83,412. Of these 13,600 were forwarded from Auckland, 22,000 from Wellington, 10,000 from Christchurch, and 7000 from Dunedin. ■
: Telegrams received numbered 108,172 and telegram transmits, that is, messages, received and transmitted onward to other destinations, numbered ; 155,741. The total number of telegrams (forwarded, received, and "transmits") dealt with in the four days numbered 83,027 in Wellington, 65,867 in Auckland, 51,150 in Christchurch, and 32,830 in Dunedin. Next in order were Wanganui with 23,495 and Napier with 18,342. For all classes of telegraph business, the increase in 1917; over the four days preceding Christmas.Day in 1916 amounted to, SJB p'erl'ceiift ',xV' ?i' ' ;:' l,!'"!''
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 15, 17 January 1918, Page 10
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