AMAZING GROWTH
BRITISH POST OFFICE LAST YEAR’S BUSINESS LONDON, Nov. 32. A comparative statement of the Post Office accounts shows that the depression tide has definitely turned. Figures relating to letters, telegrams, and parcels ail reveal an upward trend from the worst year of the depression, 1931-32. Telephone registers show the biggest growth since the war, as the following figures for 1932-33 reveal, the number for 1931-32 being given in parentheses: Local calls (790,000,000) 1,360,000,000; trunk calls (38,000,000) 128,000,000; international (112,000,000) 1,171,000,000. Saving certificates remaining invested total £383,500,000. Wireless licenses now number 5.497,f)00, compared with 1,350,000 in 1924-25.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18254, 24 November 1933, Page 7
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