P. & T. DEPARTMENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 197, 3 August 1928, Page 8

P. & T. DEPARTMENT

RETURNS FOR LAST QUARTER. INCREASE IN REVENUE. Wellington, Aug. 2. The postal returns for the four main centres for the quarter ended June 30th were gazetted to-night. They are:—Auckland, total post and telegraph revenue £214,420, Wellington £159,933, Christchurch £128,032, Dunedin £43,460. Under the heading postal revenue, the following are the returns for the second quarter of 1928, compared with the figures for the corresponding period last year in parenthesis:— Money order commission £6021 (£6401), Postages £316,166 (£3OB,465), postal note commission £5859 (£5879), total postal revenue for Dominion £401,031 (£368,010). Telegraph revenue. — Telegrams £93,216 (£96,531), telephone exchanges £317,869 (£290,214), total telegraph £525,522 (£485,908). The total number of money orders issued for the second quarter of 1928 was 193,901 for a total amount of £1,144,203, as against 193,499, amount £1,166,162, for the corresponding period last year. In the Svaings Band branch a total of 22,925 accounts were opened, against 23,938 in the same period of 1927. The amount of deposits was £6,928,669, against £7,108,540 last vear, while withdrawals were £7,455,671 and £7,853,591. The excess of withdrawals over deposits was £527,002, against £745,050 for the corresponding period of 1927.