INCREASE IN BUSINESS
POST AND TELEGRAPH FIVE MONTHS OF YEAR SURVEY BY MINISTER (Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this, day. Five months’ -experience of the current financial year indicated that the business of the Post and Telegraph Department was showing a substantial improvement on the corresponding period in the previous year, stated the Post-master-General, the Hon. F. Jones loti ay. “The total revenue for the-five months, said Mr. Jones, was £1,546,014, showing an increase over the corresponding five months of 1935 of £107,155. The improvement was spread over all principal headings. Postages were £539,777, an increase of £31,011; telegraphs, £121,476, an increase of £10.973; tolls, £218,677, an increase of £21,236; and telephones, £541,505, an increase of £40,882. Oil the, savings bank side, added the Minister, the same progress was being shown. The excess of 'deposits over with drawals for the month oi' August was £259,703, while the excess of deposits over withdrawals for the-five months of this financial vear amounted to £1,557,986.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 13
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160INCREASE IN BUSINESS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 13
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