CHRISTMAS BUSINESS

Southland Times, Issue 17866, 17 January 1918, Page 5

CHRISTMAS BUSINESS

| MAILS AND TELEGRAMS. | INCREASE IN 1917. j (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 16. 1 Sir Joseph Ward furnished the following particulars of the Post and Telegraph busi- . ness transacted at seventeen chief offices in the dominion on 20th, 21st-,22nd and 24th ■De-ember, 1917:-- ! Stamp -ales amount £21,279. an incrna.se ; of .'5.69 [>er cent., over the sales for the cor- ■ responding period of the previous year. ! The number of bags and hampers of mail matter forwarded from the seventeen offices j was 69.673. Of this number 7834 were fori warded from Auckland. 7177 from Welling- , ton, 6900 from Christchurch, and 4466 from Dunedin. j Telegrams forwarded numbered 83,412. Of these 13,600 were forwarded from Auck- i I land. 22,000 from Wellington, 10,000 from | i Christchurch, and 7000 from Dunedin. Tele- | I grams received numbered 108.172, and tele- | ! gram transactions (that is messages received | ■ and transmitted onwarri to other destina- ( i tionsi numbered 166,741. The total mint- ( i her of telegrams (forwarded, received and j “transmits” i dealt with in four days mini- | bered 83.027 in Wellington, 65,867 in Auckland, 61.160 in Christchurch, and 32,830 in j Dunedin. Next in order were Wanganui i with 23,496, and Napier with 18,342. For ! all classes of telegraph business the increase [ in 1917 over the four days preceding Chri.stI mas Day in 1916 amounted to 6.8 [>er cent.