WELLINGTON TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT HAS VERY BUSY TIME.
Per Press Association. ELLINGTON, December 26. The Telegraph Department experienced an exceptionally busy time on Christmas Eve. The total messages handled on Thursday amounted to 110,025. This number was made up as follows: This Last Sent from Wellington 25.57 S 24,869 Received .... 31,052 29,376 Forwarded from offices outside Wellington . 53,395 42,538 110,025 96,782 Greetings and other purely Christmas business formed by far the greater proportion of the messages, and it was fortunate for the Department that the weather favoured telegraphic work and that transmission was possible with a minimum of meteorological and other interruptions.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17729, 26 December 1925, Page 6
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