POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH RETURNS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 85, 1 May 1901, Page 4

POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH RETURNS.

The postal and telegraphic retarns far the quarter ended March 31st appear io thi« week's Gsz-tte. The aggregate revenue from both post sn4 t lfgriph was £126,334 8* Sd, a decrease of £BB2 19a 8d on the reveone of the first quarter of 1900 The apparent decrease is, of coarse, due to the introduced of pinny poßfcage. The sale of stamps amounted ti / 43,000 lis 10J, a* agairst £59,976 19 8d in the firtt quarter of 1900. 'Private box rents contriba'el £3480 13< 4'; moneyorder commission, £4260 9j 31; postal guides, £B4 17a ; pastil note comai.rion, £167 9i 8i; nnnceUanecm pistal, £23 400 2i 81; telegnms, £36 441, lOi 41; telephone ■ x shangep, £4440 Is 8 i, miacellaw oas telegraphic, £436812'1id. The tilfgnph returns show ihit 788,642 ordiairy telegrnnn weie dispatth-d it :he 991 offij.s which were open at the <nd cf tSe quarter. The money orders issotd numteiel 95,118 the amount aggregating £312 699 Oi 61. while 69.843 ortars, amounting to £278.177 10j 91 were paid. The sivings bank deposits amounted to £1,141,258 5< SJ, as agUnib £1,078,524 15i 7d for the •am* qaaitir of 1900; white the »i.hdrawals amounted to £1,056 024 16s 6d, ss agtimt £985 292 16' 91 fo- the eoirwf ondicg qoarter of 1900 The exceii of deposits orer withdrawals last quarter waa bc Or ingly £85,233 8i lid, as again t £93,231 18s 101 for the same quarter of 1900.