POST AND TELEGRAPH
THE HOLIDAY TRAFFIC. HASTINGS - RETURNS. A summary of the postal and telegraph business handled in Hastings from Decembie 21 to £4 is as follows :— Mails —December 21: flags 249, hampers 65; December 22, 211, 85; December 23, 273. 71; December 24, 262, 52; totals, 995, 273. Telegraph—December 21: Forward 339. received 396, transmitted 49; December 22, 446, 457, 71; December 23 593. 658. 119; December 24. 1239. 1285, 261; totals, 2617. 2796, 500. Tolls—December 21: Forward 708. received 661; December 22, 747. 653; December 23. 794, 656; December 24, 686, 562; totals. 2935, 2532, AT NAPIER. Mail Bags Despatched and Received. —First day 590, second day 606, third day 717, fourth day 574; total, 2387. Stamp Sales.—First ay. £JI46 15s Bd, second day £402 18s 4d, third day £454, fourth day £262; total, £2260 14s. Telegraph Business. —Firs day: Forwarded 1293, received 1845, transmitted 1295; second day: 1422, 1943, 1910; third day: 1892, 2522, 2566; fourth day: 2998, 3637, 5803; total: forwarded 7605, received 9947, |ransmitted 11,274. At tlie telephone exchange tho toll calls during the same four days numbered 8037, being made up of 2875 outward calls, 4533 inward and 629 through calls.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 12, 28 December 1926, Page 5
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