Big Increase in Postal Revenue
ELEVEN MONTHS’ FIGURES UP OVER £200,000 Per Press Assoeiat’on. WELLINGTON, Last Night, Something like a record for postal and telegraphic business in New Zealand for several years is in prospect. To-day the Postmaster-General (Hon. F. Jones) disclosed tho details of receipts for tho eleven months ended February 20 last, these showing that the lotal increase in the revenue for that period was £212,505. The revenue collected during the whole of the last financial year to March 51, 1955, increased over the previous year by £142,504, so that with one month still to go the figures for tho current financial year represent an addition of very nearly £70,000 to last year’s increase. The detailed increases are as follow: —Postage, £109,297; telegrams, £93SO; telephones, £4.1,48.1; tolls, £17,300.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 71, 25 March 1936, Page 4
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130Big Increase in Postal Revenue Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 71, 25 March 1936, Page 4
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