POST OFFICE REVENUE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 8

POST OFFICE REVENUE.

BIG INCREASE SECURED. WELLINGTON, June 24..' The Post Office revenue from stamp sales during the month of May demonstrates not only, the widespread interest which was taken_ in the pewpictorial issuo and the Silver Jubilee celebration stamps, which first appeared in that month, but also a reassuring expansion in the normal postal business. It is 37 years since the New Zealand Post Office issued its first pictorial stamps and the recent appearance of 14 new designs was marked by a world-wide demand, not only from philatelists but many thousands of the general public who desired to secure the six first cover envelopes carrying the new- issue post-dated May The two factors mentioned account for tho remarkable increase in postal revenue shown la6t month in comparison with the corresponding period of 1934, the figures being: May, 1935, £123,090; May. 1934, £95,700, an increase of £27,300. Postal revenue has been showing a progressive increase for several months, and it is officially estimated in connection with the remarkable rise in last month’s figures that £12,300 is due to an increase in' normal business and £15,000 to the special demand created-by the appearance of two new stamp issues. --***