TELEGRAMS AND MAILS.
* j THE CHRISTMAS RUSH. The Postmaster-General (Mr Coates) has furnished the following particulars of tho Post and Telegraph business transacted at the seventeen chief offices •in the Dominion on December 20. 2L 22. and 23, 1922 The stamp sales amounted to £30,753, an increase of 1.11 per cent over the sales for the corresponding period of the previous year. The number of bags and hampers of mail matter forwarded from the seven teen offices was 46.761. an increase of 7.96 per cent-. Of this number 10,108 were forwarded from Auckland, 65i i from Christchurch. 4987 from Dunedin, and 8471 from Wellington. | Telegrams forwarded numbered 98.920. an increase of 1.94 per cent j Of. these 17.686 were forwarded from I Auckland. 12.277 from Christchurch. 8864 from Dunedin, and 22,525 from Wellington. Telegrams received numbered 130,169, an increa.se of 5.89 pe * cent. As these figures represent the ' business at the seventeen principal or chief offices, it is interesting to note that at the smaller or country offices the work forwarded to the cities ba~ shown a greater increase than that between the cities.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16937, 11 January 1923, Page 7
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