RECORD YEAR
BRITAIN’S POSTAL REVENUE. Rugby, January 31. A surplus of £9,000,000 is revealed in the Post Office conunercial accounts for the year ended March last. This is the highest recorded in the history of the Post Office. The figures are: Postal surplus, £9,250,000; telephone surplus, £500,000; telegraph deficit, £750,000. .Cash receipts for wireless licenses totalled £1,358,000 against £1,234,898 for the preceding year. After 121 per cent, had been credited to the Post Office for expenses of management, etc., a balance remained of £1,179,501, of which £887,615 was paid over to the British Broadcasting Corporation and £291,885 accrued to Exchequer.— British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20999, 4 February 1930, Page 3
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