HOLIDAY TELEGRAMS
LULL AFTER BUSY PERIOD NEW YEAR RUSH PENDING After an exceptionally busy period (since the beginning of the week, telegraph operators at the Auckland post office experienced less, arduous conditions yesterday, when the traffic was little more than that of the average holiday period. The last of the Christmas messages received on Christmas Day was sent early yesterday morning, and the staff was then reduced to that usually engaged at holiday time. Although telegraphic traffic is expected to bo comparatively light for the next few days, another rush period is anticipated at the New Year. So far no details of the nunfber of messages handled during the Christmas activity • are yet available. The authorities have no doubt, however, that the business done constitutes a record, there being every indication that last year's Christmas week total of 144,643 messages W^ri exc€e ded by a substantia} margin. The mailroom staff at the Auckland post office also enjoyed a comparative Ml yesterday, following heavy work tor some days past.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21993, 27 December 1934, Page 10
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