PROFIT OVER NINE MILLIONS
BRITISH POST OFFICE RECORD. MINISTER CLAIMS EFFICIENCY. British Wireless. Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 24. The Postmaster-General, Mr. A. LeesSmith, stated that when the accounts of the Post Office for the last financial year are completed tjiey will show a record profit of approximately £9,250,000. He claimed for his, department an average level of efficiency higher than that displayed in- other industries, and ©aid th© criticism to which as a public department it was open acted as a tonic.
Referring to the postal service he ©aid it carried 6,000,000 letters a year. As for the telephone service, the proportion of wrong calls was only 1 per cent, in the provinces and 3J per cent, in London, while the average time a subscriber had to wait before an operator answered his call was 6.4 seconds in the provinces and 5.3 seconds in London.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1930, Page 7
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