POSTAL REVENUE.
THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD.
tar TELEGRAPH.-—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday. Speaking at. the letter-carriers' social son Saturday -night, the " Postmaster-General
(Sir Joseph Ward) said that the revenue of; the Poet and Telegraph Department of New Zealand was the highest of any country in the world in proportion (to population. It exceeded £1,000,000 last year, equal to £1 per head of population. Ninety-six and a-half million letters were posted in New Zealand last year, and over 100,000,000 were delivered. In addition to this, nearly B,ooo t ooo postcards and 24,000,000 newspapers were delivered.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147687, 5 September 1911, Page 7
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94POSTAL REVENUE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 147687, 5 September 1911, Page 7
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