POST OFFICE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1937, Page 3

POST OFFICE

BRITISH RETURNS. (Per British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 10. The Stores Department of the Post • Office, which deals with the supplies oi 24,00.) local offices throughout the United Kingdom and with the equipment of a total staff ol 2152,000, has many ramifications, -which increase < from year to year. / Air official publication describing the. department's work, which has just been issicd. says that the total value of contracts placed hy the department is well, over £5,0 X),OOP a year. T lie servants of tie Post Office, who wear uniforms, totalling 120,000 regard the department, as their tailor, halter, and outfitter. Special depots have been established it 10 ports for the storage and treatment of telegraph poles, which are taken in at an annual ram 1 of 120,000 and comprise more than .'0 categories, ranging in length Iron! 10 to 85 feel. General stores supplied vary in size from such poles down to pencils, and in value I ruin hanks ut I silk to consignment of stamps and eutuples and costly units of telegraph and telephone equipment. Tin* total lace value of the annual i issues 'of stamps is more t han £2oo,- I COP,O'/) and slocks are held on TOO different varieties as well as many kinds of stamped stationery and var-J ions denominations of postal and j money orders. 1 The department also has several re- I , pair-.factories and elaborate organ isn- [ I t.ioii lor the recovery and utilisation or , scrap material from used stores. 1 , BRITISH SAVINGS. RUGBY, January 10. Deposits in the Post, Office Savings Ihipkj at the end of last year totalled £432,000,000. an increase of C 12,000,- j 000 compared with a year before and . 1 of £77,1:00.003 compared with two j rears hel’u'V |