SUCCESS OF CHEAP POSTAGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43117, 23 July 1907, Page 4

SUCCESS OF CHEAP POSTAGE.

The annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department for the year ended March 31 records a resolution re securing, if possible, universal penny postage, which Sir J. G. Ward introduced and carried at the Imperial Conference, and also states that since the reduction of the inland letter rate on November 1, the total number of letters dealt with in the period January 1 to March 31 exceed!ed 416,316 those posted during the corresponding quarter of 1906. In that quarter the public saved £6359, while the only £IOBB, a result more favourable than was expected. Tire report, states that nearly 72 million letters were posted in the colony, and 5| millions were received from outside the colony, making over 77 million letters dealt with, besides over \\ million letter cards, nearly 6 million post Cards, nearly 24 million: books and pattern packets, the same number of newspapers, and nearly 1J million parcels. Letters increased by 11.11 per cent, letter cards by 15.92, post cards 58.66, parcels 14.32, and newspaper .38 over last! year. The Conveyance of mails by sea .cost £60,611, conveyance of inland mails £53,981, and conveyance of mails by railway £33,665.