QUARTERLY RETURNS.
[BY TELEGRAPH.— PRE3B ASSOCIATION.]
Wellington, Thursday. The revenue collected by the Postal Department) for the quarter ended 31sb March, 1894, amounted to £64,027, as compared with £58,722 for the corresponding quarter of previous year. The Telegraph revenue for the same quarter amounted to £28,398 as compared with £26,649 for the same quarter of the preceding year. Government telegrams of the value of £7038 were despatched last quarter, an increase of £27 as compared with the returns for - the first quarter of 1893. The Savings Bank returns show that last quarter 7784 accounts were opened, and 5623 closed, as compared with 7705 opened and 5059 closed during the corresponding quarter of last year. In the 1894 quarter there was an excess of withdrawals over deposits of £63,840, and in the 1893 quarter there was an excess of deposits over withdrawals of £18,837. Business in postal notes shows a large increase. During the quarter ended 31st March, 1894, 65,8370z of gold, of the value of £265,879, were exported from the colony as pared with 51,9460z of the value of £208,797, for the same quarter last year. The Auckland and Otago districts both show large increases.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9490, 20 April 1894, Page 5
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