POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS.
CHRISTMAS-BUSINESS AT NELSON
There was-an increase in postal business and a decrease in telegraphic-for the Nelson office..for Christmas this 3<The number of mailbags and parcel receptacles despatched and received this Christmas was as f&}lows I :-;? l eoe™IJf fclst, "256; 22nd, 260; 23rd 401: 24th, 350; total, 1267. The total for Christmas 1914, wa,s 1126. This year tJio total amount of stamp sales was £oW, as against. £373 8s 2d for Christmas, Following are particulars of the telegraphic business: — . & Telegrams forwarded, . Christmas, 1915: December 21st, 325: 22nd, 416; 91%-d 449- 24th, 903; total, 2096. lotalf'or Christmas 1914.2454. Telegrams received, j&nfltaias 191o: (counted one 24t& 428.3; total, 93&. Total tor Christmas 1914, 10,877.
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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13971, 29 December 1915, Page 6
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114POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS. Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13971, 29 December 1915, Page 6
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