POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT (REPORT OF THE) FOR THE YEAR 1895.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1896 Session I, F-01

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1896. NEW ZEALAND.

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT (REPORT OF THE) FOR THE YEAR 1895.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Comrfiand of His Excellency.

My Loed, — General Post Office, Wellington, 27th August, 1896. I have the honour to submit to your Excellency the Eeport on the Post and Telegraph Department for the year 1895, with the usual statement of revenue and expenditure to the 31st March last. • I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's most obedient servant, E. J. Seddon, Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner. His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand.

BEPOKT. There was a considerable expansion of business in all branches of the department during the yearThe telegraph traffic was unusually heavy, a circumstance largely to be ascribed to the development of gold-mining in the Auckland and Thames districts, and to the large traffic in mining.scrip and share transactions by telegraph. The following statement shows the revenue and expenditure for the financial year ended the 31st March, 1896 :— Revenue. £ s. d. Expenditobe. £ s. d. Stamps used for postage (estimated) .. 215,000 0 0 Salaries .. .. .. .. 196,072 12 10 Money-order and postal-note commission Conveyance of mails by sea .. .. 36,670 1 8 collected in the colony .. .. 14,158 16 0 Conveyance of inland mails .. .. 33,605 18 2 Money-order commission received from Conveyance of mails by railway .. 11,911 15 8 foreign offices .. .. .. 536 5 5 Money-order commission credited to Private box and bag fees .. .. 5,010 10 0 foreign offices .. .. .. 1,262 12 9 Miscellaneous receipts (postal) .. 7,909 8 2 Maintenance and repairs of telegraphOrdinary and Press telegrams .. 92,289 9 6 lines, and miscellaneous .. .. 48,027 18 2 Telephone exchanges .. .. 25,933 12 9 Cable subsidies .. .. .. 4,774 5 5 Miscellaneous receipts (telegraph) .. 4,889 4 7 332,325 4 8 Balance of revenue over expenditure .. 33,402 1 9 £365,727 6 5 £365,727 6 5 The increase of revenue was £8,277 11s. Bd., or 2-31 per cent. There was an increase of revenue under all heads, except Postal miscellaneous receipts, which were £9,675 Bs. 4d. less than the amount received the previous year. The expenditure was £32,354 3s. 4d. in excess of that for the year 1894-95, an increase of 1079 per cent. This increase is to be explained by the fact that the several items of expenditure of the year 1894-95 mentioned in the report for that year as not having been paid, have been included in last year's account, and that the payments of the year were further creased by £11,604 15s. 10d., the net amount paid the Eailway Department for conveyance of mails by ordinary trains from the Ist April, 1895. The remainder is" on account of increased expenditure consequent upon the expansion of the business of the department. It is to be borne in mind that the many reductions in postage and telegraph rates and charges and other concessions made the public, while materially increasing the volume of business and adding to the expenditure, have not resulted in any appreciable increase of revenue. The balance of revenue over expenditure was £33,402 Is. 9d., as compared with £57,478 13s. sd. for the previous year. i—F. 1.

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The estimated postage value of official correspondence sent through the post was £65,348 10s. 3d., and the value of Government telegrams £25,843 lis. lid.—a total of £91,192 2s. 2d., representing the value of services performed by the department for which no payment was received —a sum equal to 24-93 per cent, of the cash receipts. As already stated, the balance of revenue over expenditure was £33,402 Is. 9d. If the value of the official correspondence and Government telegrams be added, there is a balance of £124,594 3s. lid. in favour of the department on the year's transactions. 26,968,955 letters were posted in the colony, an increase of 1,144,988. The number of forwarded telegrams of all codes was 2,124,211, an increase of 90,411.. <63 post-offices were established and 4 re-opened. The number open at the close of the year was 1,404. 707 inland-mail services (excluding services by railway) were in operation during the year. 184 miles of telegraph-line and 883 miles of wire were erected. At the close of the year there were 6,245 miles of line, and 15,764 miles of wire. The net expenditure on telegraph construction was £35,537 15s. 2d. 243,497 money-orders, for £812,604 14s. lid., were issued, and 183,995 orders, amounting to £709,533 10s. 8d., paid. 349,627 postal notes, for £123,368 6s. 6d., were sold. The amount deposited in the Post-Office Savings-banks was £2,794,506 16s., and the sum withdrawn £2,369,333 6s. 7d. The total sum to the credit of depositors at the close of the calendar year was £3,895,543 0s. 3d., as compared with £3,340,879 lis. 4d. on 31st December, 1894. There were 5,143 telephone-exchange connections on the 31st March last, a net increase of 527. The subscriptions received amounted to £25,933 12s. 9d. The following table and return give the number of offices and officers of all classes on the 31st December last: —

Compaeative Betubn of Officees of the Post Office and Telegeaph Depabtment for the Years 1894 and 1895. 1894. 1885. 1894. 1895. Postmaster-General .. .. .. 1 1 Chief Postmasters .. .. 16 16 Secretary .. .. .. .. 1 1 Postmasters and Officers in Charge on Per- * Superintendent .. .. .. .. 1 1 manent Staff .. .. .. 162 162 Assistant Secretary and Inspector .. .. 1 1 Clerks (including Telephone Exchange Assistant Inspectors of Post-offices .. 1 3 Cadettes and Cadets in Post-offices) .. 395 423 Sub-Inspectors of Post-offices .. .. 2 0 Operators (including Cadets in TelegraphController of Money-orders and Savings-banks offices) .. .. .. .. 320 346 and Accountant .. .. .. 1 1 Country Postmasters and Telephonists ..1,147 1,204 Telegraph Inspectors .. .. ... 3 3 Letter-carriers .. .. .. ~ 153 159 Telegraph Sub-Inspector .. .. .. 1 1 Messengers (Post Office) .. 23 24 Electrician .. .. .. .. 1 1 Linemen .. ~ <. ~ 67 63 Mechanicians and Cadet .. .. .. 4 5 Telegraph Message Boys .. ~ 219 225 Clerks in General Post Office — Nightwatchmen .. ~ .. 2 2 Secretary's Branch .. -.. .. 9 10 Postmasters and Telegraphists or TeleInspeotor's and Dead-letter Branch .. 5 5 phonists who are Railway officers .. 135 139 Money-order and Savings-bank Branch .. 22 23 — Sorters in Clearing-room .. .. 13 13 Totals .. .. ~ 2,709 2,836 Storekeeper and Assistants .. .. 4 4

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The health of the staff has been good. Of the officers at the principal offices during the halfyear ended 30th September, 1895, the average absence on account of sickness was 2-38 days for men, and 3-37 days for women. In the succeeding half-year, which included the summer months, the average absence fell to 1-51 days for men, and 226 days for women. An analysis is shown below :—

It is interesting to note that, although proportionately fewer men than women were absent on account of sickness, the average duration of their illness was longer. The New Zealand figures compare very favourably with those of the British Post Office, where the last published average for each man employed was 79 dtiys, against 3-8 days in New Zealand, and for each woman 12-2 against 5-5 days. The usual annual Intercolonial Postal and Telegraph Conference, which was to have met at Sydney at the beginning of this year, has been deferred until the receipt of the tenders for the Federal mail-service, which closed at London last month. The Pacific-cable question has made but little progress. A special Postal and Telegraph Conference was held at Sydney in January last, at which the whole of the Australasian Colonies were represented, the Hon. W. P. Reeves attending on behalf of New Zealand. The conference was promoted in the hope that the colonies might be able to arriye at some definite basis of action on the question, and also to nominate two members to the Commission of representatives of the Imperial Government, Canada, and Australasia, to be appointed by the Imperial Government to fully consider the Pacific-cable proposals. The following resolutions were agreed to at the Sydney Conference: — That the Pacific cable should be constructed and owned jointly by the various Govern' merits interested. That the landing-places of such cable should be only upon territory belonging to or under the control of the British Empire. That the cost of its construction, working, and maintenance be borne in the following proportions, namely: Great Britain, one-third; the Dominion of Canada, one-third; and the contributing Australasian Colonies, one-third. That the route from Fiji to Australia be via Norfolk Island, thence bifurcating to the nearest convenient landing-places in the north of New Zealand and Moreton Bay respectively. That it is highly desirable that South Australia join the other colonies in the Pacific-cable project; and that, having regard to their vested interests in the transcontinental line, her representative be invited to make a proposition embodying the terms on wliich the South Australian Government would be prepared to join the other colonies in the said project. The Conference nominated the Agents-General for New South Wales and Victoria to represent the Australasian Colonies on the Imperial Commission. This Commission met at London at the beginning of June last; but, as the Australasian representatives had to attend the International Telegraph Convention at. Buda-Pesth on the 16th, there was only one formal meeting, which was adjourned for six weeks. The International Telegraph Convention assembled at Buda-Pesth on the above date, this colony being represented by the London Post Office delegate. The only direction it was considered necessary to give the delegate was to oppose the adoption of the official telegraph-code vocabulary, and the obligation to use only the words included in the vocabulary. The objections entertained by this colony to the vocabulary were, it appeared, in entire harmony with those of the London Post Office. A cable message has been received from the colony's delegate at Buda-Pesth, advising that the Committee of the Conference had decided that the regulations shall contain no obligation to restrict the use of telegraph code-words to the words in the code vocabulary. This is satisfactory. The agreement under which the Eailway receives payment for the carriage of mails by ordinary trains and for other services,—and this department is given credit for the estimated postage on railway correspondence sent by post, and for the transmission of telegrams on railway business, &c, —■ has been revised and renewed, as from the Ist April last to the 31st December, 1897. The amounts payable per annum to the Eailway are— £ s. d. £ s. d. Carriage of mails, and haulage of special mailcarriages ... ... ... ... 29,328 10 0 For postal and telegraph duties at combined offices 8,537 0 0 Parcel post, &c. ... .. ... ... 720 0 0 ■ 38,585 10 0 And the sums payable by the Railway to this department— For telegrams ... ... ... . 10,000 0 0 For postage ... ... ... ... 4,000 0 0 Telephone Exchange subscriptions, &c. ... 569 0 0 Maintenance, railway telegraph wires ... ... 4,000 0 0 18,569 0 0 Leaving a balance in favour of the Railway Department of £20,016 10 0

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Numbers comprised Average Absence per Sick Officer. Average Sick Absence per Officer employed. Men Women 800 118 I j 8-6 5-5 3-8 5-5

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Other services performed by either department for the other are treated as matters of separate account. It should be explained that payment for combined postal and telegraph duties, and for conveyance of parcels, has been made the Railway Department for several years. The first meeting of the Appeal Board under " The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1894," to consider all appeals in relation to any question of classification, status, or salary arising under "The Classification Act, 1890," and amendments, Was held in August last year. There were in all eighty-two appeals, and the number favourably reported upon was twentytwo. Effect has been given completely or partially to all of the latter except four, which are still pending, for the reasons—(l) because requisite examination has not been passed; (2) because the facts relating to service have not been proved ; (3) because no suitable vacancy; and (4) because no suitable vacancy has presented itself in the particular branch designated by the Board. Sixty of the appeals were either not favourably reported upon by the Board or were covered by general recommendations. The second meeting of the Board took place on the Bth June last. The two elected members of the Board retire in February next, necessitating an election early next year. It will be observed that several of the statements and returns appear in different form to what they did in last year's report. This change has been made with the object of securing uniformity of postal and telegraph statistical information throughout the colonies. In the report for 1894 attention was drawn to the steadily-increasing number of delayed, and the fallmg-off of the ordinary (or shilling), telegrams, giving evidence of the fact that the former code, under the then existing liberal conditions of transmission during the day, and posting immediately on arrival, bade fair to seriously displace the ordinary telegram, and to force the department to take steps to check the loss of revenue. When the delayed system was introduced, in 1878, communication between the main centres of population, was comparatively infrequent, and a scheme by which a telegram might be sent at a cheap rate from one end of the colony to the other, and delivered by the first post next morning, met an appreciable want, and introduced a new class of business. At the beginning of 1886 a further concession was made in the direction of accelerating the delivery of such telegrams by posting them immediately on arrival, and in 1891 the number of words covered by the initial rate was increased to eighteen, with the result that the proportion of delayed to ordinary telegrams rose from 1 in 4-14 in 1885 to 1 in 1-52 in 1894. Upon mature consideration it was decided to revert to the practice of posting delayed telegrams after office hours, as from the Ist December last. The effect of this was that the number of delayed telegrams, in comparison with December, 1894, fell off in December, 1895, 13,195, or about 26-18 in value, and ordinary telegrams increased 15,848, or 19-12 per cent., and £701 15s. Bd., or 15-07 in value—a net increase of £293 11s. 4d. The Christmas month was one in which fluctuations in business were to be anticipated; but the returns indicated at least that the service given by the department by means of delayed telegrams was, even under the altered conditions, sufficiently prompt for a large proportion of the community. Continued representations, however, were made to the Postmaster-General in favour of a return to the system of immediate posting, but it was considered that it would give more general satisfaction to reduce the rate for ordinary messages and place all classes of the community in the enjoyment of a cheap rate for a message of a reasonable length, which would be promptly delivered by messenger on its arrival. The proposal was one which required much deliberation. Already the proportion of telegrams to each inhabitant of the colony was largely in excess of the proportion obtaining in the United Kingdom and the Australian Colonies, with the one exception of Western Australia. To maintain the revenue, assuming the average length of a message to be fifteen words, would require an increase of at least 23-32 per cent, in the numher of messages forwarded; and the fact that a sixpenny telegram had been available under the old system had also to be taken into account as a disturbing element in the calculations which were made. Various rates were suggested, but it was felt that the sixpenny telegram would be the most popular one, as affording considerable relief to the users of the ordinary or shilling telegram, and at the same time meeting to a large extent the convenience of the patrons of the delayed code. Government, therefore, decided for the sixpenny telegram of twelve words, including address and signature, with Id. for each additional word, and double rates for urgents, as from the Ist June last. The time was a favourable one for making the change, as the mining industry in the North was assuming large proportions, and trade was showing signs of further improvement. The result has exceeded anticipation. The traffic for the months of June and July shows an increase in the number of paid messages of 2897 per cent, and 21-13 per cent, in value, as compared with the traffic for the corresponding months of 1895. The increase in the number of urgent telegrams was 118-11 per cent. The following statement of the telegraph traffic for June and July last, as compared with the corresponding months of the previous year, shows the increase since the introduction of the sixpenny telegrams:—

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The effect of the gold-mining boom in Auckland and Thames on the traffic in ordinary and urgent telegrams and cable messages in those postal districts, as compared with the telegraph business in Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin districts, for the months of June and July last, and for the corresponding months, 1895, may be seen by the following return: —

Prizes were offered last year for a series of designs for postage-stamps representing New Zealand subjects. Over two hundred sets, numbering about 2,400 single designs, many of them of conspicuous merit, were received from residents of New Zealand and the Australian Colonies, and were submitted to a board of experts, consisting of Messrs. A. D. Eiley, Director, Wellington Technical School; S. Hurst Seager, of the Canterbury School of Art; C. D. Barraud, the wellknown artist; the Government Printer; and the Assistant Secretary and Inspector of this Department. The Board unanimously decided to award prizes to the drawings sent in under the pseudonyms stated as follows : — "Practical": Three first prizes, two second prizes, and two honourable mentions. "Progress": Two first and three second prizes. " Tongariro" : Two first prizes, one second prize, and four honourable mentions. " Arawa " : Two first prizes and one second. " Exegi " : Three second prizes. "Aotea-roa": One first prize and two honourable mentions. "Maori":

iureau :essages. linary legrams. rgem legrams. Pqt-iod. Number. Eevenue. Number. Eevenue. Number. Revenue. June, 1895 (Delayed added to ordinary) June, 1896 6,354 £ s. d. 151 18 0 114,552 £ s. d. 5,505 18 3 3,811 £ s. d. 474 9 6 7,915 Inc. 12-57 187 8 0 Inc. 23-03 148,231 Inc. 29-40 6,436 3 8 Inc. 16-89 8,033 Inc. 110-78 736 3 8 Inc. 55-27 July, 1895 (Delayed added to ordinary) July, 1896 6,703 158 1 9 189 10 8 Inc. 19-62 118,044 5,446 14 0 3,684 474 11 2 770 7 4 Inc. 62-45 7,972 Inc. 18-93 152,535 Inc. 29-22 6,435 16 6 Inc. 18-16 8,314 Inc. 125-68 June and July, 1895 (Delayed added to ordinary) June and July, 1896 13,057 309 19 9 232,596 10,952 12 3 7,495 949 0 8 15,887 Inc. 21-67 376 18 8 Inc. 2168 300,766 Inc. 29-31 12,872 0 2 Inc. 17-53 16,347 Inc. 118-11 1,506 11 0 Inc. 58-69 Press 'elegrama. Total pai< Telegrams. Governmi int Telegrams. Period. Number. Bevenue. Number. Revenue. Number. Value. June, 1895 (Delayed added to ordinary) .. June, 1896 14,471 & s. d. 681 9 3 139,188 £ s. d. 6,813 15 0 17,739 £ s. d. 1,984 15 0 17,353 Inc. 19-92 937 17 10 Inc. 37-74 181,532 Inc. 30-42 8,297 13 2 Inc. 21-81 19,279 Inc. 868 1,870 17 7 Dec. 5-74 July, 1895 ,. (Delayed added to ordinary) .. July, 1896 17,703 882 6 6 992 0 8 Inc. 12-47 146,134 6,961 13 5 17,480 2,492 8 3 17,625 Dec. 0-44 186,446 Inc. 27-59 8,387 15 3 Inc. 20-49 18,950 Inc. 8-41 1,876 10 11 Dec. 24-72 June and July, 1895 (Delayed added to ordinary) 32,174 1,563 15 9 285,322 13,775 8 5 35,219 4,477 3 3 June and July, 1896 .. 34,978 Inc. 8-72 1,929 18 6 Inc. 23-42 367,978 Inc. 2897 16,685 8 5 Inc. 21-13 38,229 Inc. 8-55 3,747 8 6 Dec. 16-31

OrdSiary Telegrams. Urgent Telegrams. Cable Messages. Postal District. Period. Number. Amount. Number. Amount. Amount. Auckland Thames Wellington June and July, 1895 1896 June and July, 1895 1896 June and July, 1895 1896 44,618 65,813 Inc. 47-50 p.c. 9,796 20,173 Inc. 105-93 p.c. 41,741 51,651 Inc. 23-74 p.c. 25,000 29,831 Inc. 19-32 p.c. 29,538 35,055 Inc. 18-68 p.c. £ s. d. 2,149 5 6 3,095 10 6 Inc. 44-07 p.c. 465 13 4 820 7 9 Inc. 75-97 p.c. 1,705 17 7 1,977 17 4 Inc. 15-94 p.c. 1,205 7 11 1,298 17 1 Inc. 7-80 p.c. 1,436 15 3 1,469 6 9 Inc. 2'23 p.c. 1,927 4,861 Inc. 152-26 p.c. 601 2,388 Inc. 297-34 p.c. 1,435 2,632 Inc. 83-41 p.c. 734 1,055 Inc. 43-73 p.c. 793 1,334 Inc. 68-22 p.c. £ s. d. 215 10 0 448 8 10 Inc. 107'41 p.c. 66 4 0 189 10 11 Inc. 187-88 p.c. 194 14 5 249 17 8 Inc. 28-21 p.c. 88 6 4 117 15 5 Inc. 34-09 p.c. Ill 18 0 131 2 8 Inc. 16-96 p.c. £ s. d. ; 1,161 9 8 ! 5,353 7 3 Inc. 361-07 p.c. 58 13 3 169 8 10 Inc. 186-44 p.c. 2,770 16 3 2,399 12 3 Dec. 13-39 p.c. 730 6 2 1,087 1 5 Inc. 48-90 p.c. 630 19 & 618 13 3 Dec. 1-09 p.c. Christchurch .. June and July, 1895 1896 Dunedin June and July, 1895 1896 Delay: id are included 'ith Ordinary i: 1895 figures.

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One first prize and one honourable mention. "O " : One second prize. " Letterewe " : One honourable mention. " Mahi " : One honourable mention. On opening the sealed envelopes, the names of the successful designers were found to be : — "Practical," W. E. Bock, Wellington; "Progress," B. T. Luke, Melbourne; " Tongariro," J. Gaut, Wellington; "Arawa," H. W. Young, Ponsonby, Auckland; "Exegi," El. Howard, North Fitzroy, Melbourne; " Aotea-roa," A. W. Jones, Christchurch; "Maori," A. E. Cousins, Wellington ; " O," F. Sears, Wellington ; " Letter-ewe," P. Sears, Wellington ; " Mahi," E. Eoy MacGregor, Wellington. At the request of competitors and others the designs were exhibited at the principal centres in the colony, and attracted great attention. It is satisfactory to relate that the awards of the board were generally approved. The engraving of the stamps from the designs finally selected by the Postmaster-General will shortly be put in hand, and it is believed that, when completed, the series will compare favourably with the stamps in use in any part of the world. Messrs. Dunlop and Co., the well-known shipbuilders, of Port Glasgow, were the successful tenderers for the new cable-steamer, which is now on her way to the colony. The contract price was £30,770, and it is reported that the vessel is particularly well suited for lighthouse inspection and other work, as well as for cable-laying. The hero of the Maori legend of which the heroine was Hinemoa supplies the name " Tutanekai," by which the steamer will be known. The "Tutanekai" is expected to arrive at Wellington about the end of September. The Hon. J. G. Ward, who assumed Ministerial control of the department on the 24th January, 1891, resigned office on the 16th June last. Many improvements in the service, and liberal concessions to the public, were made during his term of office. Among the latter may be mentioned the reduction of international and intercolonial telegraph-cable rates, the reduction of telephoneexchange rates, the introduction of £5 postal notes and letter-cards, liberal amendments in the commercial and. printed-paper post, and other material reductions in the postage rates, following the colony entering the Postal Union, as well as the introduction of sixpenny telegrams on the Ist of June last.

The Number and Value of Cable Messages forwarded to International Countries, to New Caledonia, and to the several Australian Colonies, during 1895, are shown in the following Statement: —

Statement of Traffic over the New Zealand- Sydney Cable, for the Year from the Ist May, 1895, to the 30th April, 1896. £ Amount guaranteed to Cable Company ... ... ... ... 20,000 Actual receipts during the above period ... ... ... ... 14,076 Showing a loss to the Cable Company of ... ... ... £5,924 Apportioned as follows : — New Zealand, one-third ... ... ... ... ... 1,975 Contributing colonies, including New Zealand, two-thirds ... .... 3,949 £5,1)24 And the contributing colonies' proportions, on the basis of population :— n , _ Population Amount. Oolon y- (Census, 1891). £ b. d. Victoria ... ... ... ... ... 1,140,405 1,320 16 9 New South Wales ... ... ... ... 1,132,234 1,311 7 6 New Zealand ... ... ... ... 620,030 718 2 7 South Australia ... ... ... ... 320,431 371 2 7 Tasmania ... ... ... ... ... 146,667 169 17 5 Western Australia ... ... ... ... 49,782 57 13 2 Totals ... ... ... 3,409,~549 £3,949 0 0

iary. 'rci is. Destination. No. of Messages. Value. No. of Messages. Value. International ... New Caledonia New South Wales Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia 7,135" 16 16,476 1,188 1,073 1,262 10,780 1,006 £ s. d. 27,484 10 3 11 18 11 3,654 3 3 441 2 0 338 10 0 475 16 10 2,908 6 7 370 17 7 3 £ s. d. 11 2 3 1,036 1 388" 14 3 0 11 5 128 33 5 1 Total for 1895 38,936 35,685 5 5 1,168 433 13 0 Total for 1894 34,713 28,965 9 6 994 899 4 9

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Statement of the International Traffic on the Eastern Extension Company's European Lines in respect of the Cable Guarantee Fund, for the Year ended 30th April, 1896. £ Amount guaranteed for the year ... ... ... ... 227,000 0 0 Actual revenue ... ... ... ... ... 360,970 19 2 Surplus ... ... ... ... ... £133,970 19 2 The revenue derived by the company from the Australasian-international cable-traffic for the year ended April, 1895, was £238,712. The increase of revenue last year was, therefore, 51-22 per cent. The increase of the telegraph cable-traffic resulted in a reduction in the payment by the colony to the Intercolonial Cable Guarantee Fund. The colony's outward international and intercolonial cable business, not including Press, for the years 1894 and 1895 was as follows:— International, — Messages. Value. Number. £ s. d. 1894 ... ... ... 5,963 ... 21,431 6 4 1895 ... ... ... 7,135 ... 27,484 10 3 Increase ... 1,172 Increase ... 6,053 3 11 or 19 - 65 per cent. or 28-24 per cent. Intercolonial, — Messages. Value. Number. £ s. d. 1894 ... ... ... 28,750 . . . 7,534 3 2 1895 31,801 ... 8,200 15 2 Increase ... 3,051 Increase ... 666 12 0 or 10-61 per cent. or 8-84 per cent. A total increase in 1895 of 4,223 messages and £6,719 15s. lid. in value.

The forwarded and received cable Press business for the past five years has been: —

Note. —The intercolonial cable Press rate was reduced from 3d. to Id. per word on the Ist April, 1893. There was a large increase in the number and value of the received messages, but a falling-off in the forwarded, in number of words and value. A comparison of the receipts from Press cable messages under the old tariff and the reduced rates which came into operation in April, 1893, is largely in favour of the former. POST OFFICE. The number of articles posted in the colony, and received from places outside the colony, during the year, as compared with the number in 1894, was as under ; — Letters— 1895. 1894. Increase. Posted in the colony .. .. .. 26,968,955 25,823,967 Received from places outside the colony .. 1,980,981 1,816,044 28,949,936 27,640,011 1,809,925 Letter-cards posted in the colony .. .. 637,013 Nil 637,013 Post-cards— Decrease. Posted in the colony .. .. .. 1,196,156 1,248,819 Received from places outside the colony .. 5,477 5,021 1,201,633 1,253,840 52,207 Books and pattern-packets— Increase. Posted in the colony .. ~ ~ 8,337,680 6,900,049 Received from places outside the colony .. 2,509,444 2,514,002 10,847,124 9,414,051 1,433,073 Newspapers— Posted in the colony .. ~ .. 8,964,111 8,787,935 Received from places outside the colony .. 3,711,862 3,545,773 * 12,675,973 12,333,708 342,263 Parcels— Posted in the colony .. .. .. 156,752 155,697 Received from places outside the colony ~ 19,454 18,567 176,206 174,264 1,942

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Forwarded. Received. Year. Number of Number of Value. Value. Messages. Words. Messages. Words. 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 837 791 796 994 1,168 45,285 44,263 57,390 103,366 68,682 £ s. 932 15 898 3 504 9 899 4 433 13 d. 8 9 9 9 0 2,828 2,884 2,883 3,033 3,926 198,935 197,477 202,170 203,326 314,136 £ s. d. 2,739 6 0 2,796 9 4 1,540 17 10 1,179 13 7 1,782 13 5

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The letters increased 4-74, the books and pattern-packets 15-22, newspapers 278, and parcels 1-11 per cent., but the post-cards show a decrease of 4-16 per cent. The increase in 1894 was : Letters, 0-70; books and pattern-packets, 16-88; newspapers, 136 and parcels, 1-98 per cent. The post-cards decreased 9-94 per cent. The average number of letters posted per head of population was estimated to be 38-95 (and with letter-cards, 39-87). The average in 1894 was 38-02. The Post Office receipts for the financial year 1895-96 amounted to £242,614 19s. 7d., compared with £247,437 11s. : a decrease of £4,822 11s. sd. The decrease is more than explained by the fact that the miscellaneous receipts were £9,675 Bs. 4d. less than they were the previous year. There was, however, an increase in all other items of revenue. The expenditure was £183,855 ss. 5d., as against £164,180 os. 9d. for the previous year : an increase of £19,675 4s. Bd., or 11-98 per cent. It should be explained that the Post Office expenditure for 1894-95, as may be seen by reference to the last report, was £5,873 2s. Bd. below that of the previous year, owing mainly to several payments not having been made within the financial year. And as the agreement under which the Railway Department is now paid for the carriage of mails by ordinary trains came into force on the Ist April, 1895, last year's expenditure was swelled by £11,604 15s. 10d., the net amount paid that department for such conveyance of mails, &c. There was, however, a balance of revenue over expenditure of £58,759 14s. 2d. for the year. The estimated value of the official correspondence was £65,348 10s. 3d. The gross earnings of the Post Office for the year were therefore £307,963 9s. 10d., and the credit balance £124,108 4s. sd. Customs duties amounting to £5,917 12s. 9d. were collected upon articles received through the post from places beyond the colony by parcel-post. The sum of £1,408 was collected in connection with the sale of game-licenses. Premiums amounting to £26,808 7s. Bd. were collected from policy-holders of the Government Insurance Department. Income-tax amounting to £55,634 Bs. 7d., and £204,468 19s. lid. on account of land-tax, were received at post-offices. The fees collected under the Live-stock Acts amounted to £13,328 15s. £3,947 2s. 6d. on account of machinery fees we.re received. The receipts derived from the sale of miners' licenses amounted to £1,552 17s. £8,165 was lodged at post-offices for investment in New Zealand Consols. Eeceipts on behalf of the Public Trust Office amounted to £157,855 165., and the payments to £160,113 2s. 2d., as compared with £118,694 12s. 7d. and £119,149 12s. 10d. for the previous year. £314,288 9s. 10d. was received on behalf of the Advances to Settlers' Office, and payments amounting to £308,746 ss. 7d. were made. The fees collected for registration of births, deaths, and marriages amounted to £1,761 3s. Pees were also collected on account of the Government Printing Office, Audit Department, Hospitals and Charitable Aid, Industrial Schools, Lunacy Department, Eailway Department, public baths, totalisator-tax, and Marine Department—aggregating £9,481 Is. Bd. The payments made at post-offices on behalf of the Treasury amounted to £400,588 4s. lid. The gross receipts dealt with for the year were : Departmental, £4,885,365 14s. 2d.; on account of other departments, £1,205,626 95.: total, £6,090,992 3s. 2d., as compared with £5,186,265 Bs. sd. for the previous year. The payments were: Departmental, £4,877,125 2s. 5d.; on behalf of other departments, £895,750 15s. lid.; and to Government accounts, £333,527 12s. lid.: total, £6,106,403 11s. 3d., as against £5,139,261 Bs. 9d. during the former year. The gross receipts and payments were therefore £12,197,395 14s. 5d., as against £10,325,526 17s. 2d. for the year 1894-95. Deliveries by letter-carrier were established at Auckland—along the Birkenhead-Birkdale Eoad, by subsidised carrier; Bluff; Christchurch—in the suburbs of Addington, Linwood, Merivale, Phillipstown, Eichmond, and in the more thickly populated parts of St. Albans ; and Paeroa. Deliveries were extended : Auckland—on foot in suburbs of Mount Eden, part of Mount Eoskill, and western portion of Ponsonby; by mounted carrier over Eemuera, along Paton's, Kingsland, Western Springs, and Old Mill Eoads : Christchurch—in suburbs of Burwood, Shirley, and Windsor: Hutt—along Waiwetu Eoad and to Nae Nae : Invercargill—to include Hawthorn, thrice weekly: Mosgiel—over the whole borough : Oamaru —the afternoon delivery to Upper Severn, Towey, Mersey, and Lune Streets: Tauranga—to a distance about two miles from office; Temuka —to Frew's, corner Waitohi Eoad; Eutland's, on main road; and Murray Street East: Waipawa —to corner of Waipawa and Patangata Eoads: Wellington—in city, and over part of suburbs of Ohiro, Brooklyn, Happy Valley, and Boseneath. - The delivery at Geraldine was increased from once to twice daily.

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Deliveries were diminished in frequency, but extended in area, at Greytown North—from twice to once daily; and Oamaru—from four times to fchrice daily. The deliveries were changed at Christchurch, to enable the letter-carriers' half-holiday to be taken on Thursday instead of Saturday ; and at Gisborne on Thursday instead of Wednesday. Sixty-three post-offices were established, four reopened, and sixteen closed during the year, as under:— Opened. Alpine Hill, Westport. Manapouri, Inveroargill. Rongomai, Wellington. Anakoa Bay, Blenheim. Mangakura, Auckland. Ruabine, Wellington. Aoroa, Auckland. Marlow, Auckland. Scarborough, Wellington. Bankside, Christchurch. Matahuru, Auckland. Silverstream, Wellington. Brightlands, Blenheim. Moonlight's Point, Westport. Southburn, Timaru. Brooklyn, Wellington. *Motu, Gisborne. Springlands, Blenheim. Dalefield, Wellington. Moutoa, Wellington. Staveley, Ohristchureh. East Tamaki, Auckland. Ngamatapouri, Wanganui. Taikorea, Wellington. Glenham, Invercargill. Ngaturi, Wellington. Tane, Wellington. Granville, Greymouth. Nihoniho, Auckland. Tangawhine, Auckland. Judgeford, Wellington. Noble's, Greymouth. Tapuae, Wellington. Ingram's, Wanganui. Oaonui, New Plymouth. Tekinga, Greymouth. Kakahu School, Timaru. Okiwi Bay, Nelson. Titirangi, Blenheim. Katea, Dunedin. Opononi, Auckland. Tongaporutu, New Plymouth Kiwitahi, Auckland. Oteramika, Invercargill. Upper Matakitaki, Westport. Kokonga, Dunedin. Pakipaki, Napier. Waimai, Auckland. Kowai Bush, Christchurch. Palmer Road, New Plymouth. tWaimamaku, Auckland. Lee Stream, Dunedin. Papatotara, Invercargill. Wainuioru, Wellington. Linwood, Christchurch. Pohui, Napier. Wangamomona, New Plymouth. Little Wanganui, Westport. Pongaroa, Wellington. Waterfalls, Wellington. Lower Awatere, Blenheim. Reikorangi, Wellington. Watershed Road, Wanganui. Mahitahi, Hokitika. Rock and Pillar, Dunedin. Whakapirau, Auckland. Mamu'ku,' Auckland. * Name of original office at Motu changed to Whakarau, and a new office established called Motu. t Name of original office at Waimamaku changed to Waiotemarama, and a new office established called Waimatnaku. Closed. Albert Road, New Plymouth. Marahau, Nelson. Ratapapa, Wanganui. Akuaku, Gisborne. Maud Island, Blenheim. Ruahine, Wellington. Anakoa Bay, Blenheim. Meremere, Wanganui. Sandy Bay, Nelson. Gap, Invercargill. Moonlight's Point, Westport. Upper Matakitaki, Westport. Hackthorne, Christchurch. Nevesville, Thames. Wordsworth Street, Wellington. Lee Stream, Dunedin. Total number of post-offices open at the close of the year was 1,404. The designations of offices were changed as follows : Auckland—Opanake to Kaihu, Oxford North to Tirau, Waimamaku to Waiotemarama (new office opened called Waimamaku); Blenheim —Titirangi to Hikoekoea; Dunedin—Greytown South to Allanton ; Gisborne—Motu to Whakarau (new office on same line called Motu); Invercargill —Oteramika to Mokotua (former name given to new office at Eailway-station), Oteramika (office at Eailway-station) to Kapuka; Napier—Maraetaha to Moss Side ; Wanganui—Three-log Whare to Mangaweka ; Wellington—Pohangina to Palmer's, Pohangina Township to Pohangina. Spellings of name were corrected: Danevirke to Dannevirke, Eangitira Valley to Eangatira Valley. Eighteen newspapers were registered for transmission by post, and seven ceased publication. Nineteen receiving-boxes were established—Birkenhead-Birkdale Eoad (Auckland), 3; Takapuna, 1; Christchurch, 2; Ashburton, 1; Dunedin, 1; Caversham, 1; Gladstone (Invercargill), 1; North Invercargill, 2; Waipawa, 1; Paeroa, 1; Geraldine, 1; Bltham, 1 ; Hawera, 1 ; Wellington, 1; Mitchelltown, 1. Four receiving-boxes were closed—Kumara, 1; Gladstone, 1; North Invercargill, 1; Wellington, 1. There were 358 pillar, wall, and lamp-post receivers at the close of the year. 9,872,591 letters, 227,715 letter-cards, 511,114 post-cards, 1,996,932 books, circulars, &c, 2,589,515 newspapers, and 43,587 parcels were delivered by letter-carriers. A rearrangement of the Postal Inspectors' districts has been made. The colony has been divided into four divisions. The Northern embraces Auckland, Thames, and Gisborne ; the Central comprises Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Napier ; the Midland includes Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, Christchurch, and Timaru ; and the Southern, Oamaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill postal districts. An Assistant Inspector has been appointed to each of the districts, except the Central, the inspection of which will be provided for from the office of the Assistant Secretary and Inspector. During the year 1,018 visits of inspection were made, and 21,317 miles travelled by the inspecting officers. The conditions under which commercial papers and printed matter may be sent through the post have been revised. The Postal Guide has been rearranged in a form more convenient for the public. A careful perusal of the Guide should do much to prevent the commercial and printed-paper regulations being misunderstood. The revised departmental regulations are to be brought into force in October next. ii—F. 1.

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Parcel-post. The following table shows the total number and the weight of inland, intercolonial, United Kingdom, and foreign parcels dealt with during the years 1890, 1892, 1894, and 1895: —

The increase in the number of parcels dealt with was 1,942, or 1-11 per cent. The increase in 1894 over 1893 was 3,393, or 1-99 per cent. The postage collected on parcels posted in the colony amounted to £9,143 12s. Bd., as compared with £8,907 13s. 2d. in 1894. The number of inland parcels posted was 149,454, as compared with 149,150 in 1894.

The following table shows the number and weight of parcels exchanged with the United Kingdom and foreign countries vià London, and with the Australian Colonies and South Sea Islands, during the years 1894 and 1895: —

* Parcel-post service to Tonga temporarily suspended, t Parcel-poet service to Hawaiian Islands commenced Ist September, 1896, The declared value of parcels received from places outside the colony was £26,668 14s. 9d. The Customs duty collected amounted to £5,917 12s. 9d. In 1894 the declared value was £27,601 14s. Id., and the duty £5,340 7s. 4d. The declared value of parcels despatched to places beyond the colony was £6,374 19s. lid., as against £7,037 4s. Id. in 1894. The small expansion of the parcel business may be mainly ascribed to the inland and foreign book and packet rate affording a cheaper means of transit for printed matter. Arrangements have been completed for the exchange of parcels with the under-mentioned countries, vid Colombo, in lieu of vid London as formerly: Mauritius, Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar, India, Siam, British North Borneo, Labuan, Hongkong, Chinese Ports, Corea, and Japan. Advantage has also been taken of the direct steamers now calling at Montevideo on their way to London to provide for the distribution of parcels for Uruguay, the Argentine Eepublic, and Chili, from Montevideo, instead of London. Parcel exchanges, vid London, have been extended to St. Pierre and Miquelon and Buluwayo. A direct exchange of parcels has been established with the Hawaiian Islands.

Postal Districts. Number. 1690. 1892. Number. 1894. Weight. 1895. Weight. Number. Weight. Number. Weight. Auckland .. Chames .. STew Plymouth jisborne .. Napier tVanganni Wellington kelson iVestport .. Iroymouth ilokitika .. 31enheim.. jhristohurch Cimaru .. 3amaru .. Dunedin .. inveroargill 24,582 1,677 1,131 1,046 7,059 4,531 29,093 5,323 1,201 2,819 1,587 2,050 21,819 2,261 955 25,301 3,892 lb. oz. 65,907 2 4,102 2 3,034 8 2,862 12 19,422 1 10,731 12 83,998 11 15,123 4 2,688 12 7,128 5 4,382 8 4,941 15 65,881 6 5,515 6 2,415 11 73,616 10 8,768 11 35,164 2,011 1,675 1,270 7,442 5,482 36,183 5,110 1,457 2,9b9 1,942 2,386 26,338 2,635 986 27,563 4,090 lb. oz. 96,274 0 4,858 4 5.544 0 ' 3,756 9 23,307 15 14,979 0 124,516 5 15,957 10 3,457 11 7,539 2 5,125 3 5,827 7 85,782 9 6,340 10 2.545 3 85,822 10 10,490 14 J 34,480 2,103 2,567 1,362 8,778 5,543 43,035 5,697 1,696 2,627 1,722 2,260 26,523 2,120 1,010 28,316 4,425 lb. oz. 98,202 8 5,702 8 6,705 10 4,140 11J 26,362 15 15,795 9 143,652 3 17,815 7 4,332 6 7,278 2 5,598 5 6,162 8 87,776 10 5,542 15J 2,618 4 90,554 9 12,074 5 ! 35,631 2,235 2,543 1,136 8,865 5,722 43,591 5,771 1,707 2,553 1,816 2,133 27,053 1,908 988 28,132 4,422 lb. oz. 107,729 14 J 6,134 10 6,780 8 3,581 8j 25,672 1 18,139 5 158,124 1 17,860 6 4,382 13 6,319 13 5,904 8 5,767 13J 96,386 9 5,060 9 2,563 8 99,186 10 12,598 15 Totals 136,327 502,125 0i 174,264 540,315 8 ,176,206 582,193 8J 380,521 8 164,703

Received. Despi itched. Country. 1894. 1895. 1894. 1895. Number. Weight. Number. Weight. Number. Weight. Number. Weight. United Kingdom and foreign offices (via London) Victoria New South Wales South Australia Queensland Tasmania Western Australia Samoa Barotonga Tonga* Hawaiian Islandsf Ceylon Straits Settlements 13,147 lb. oz. 40,223 0 13,681 lb. oz. 46,339 0 3,325 lb. oz. 8,089 0 3,524 lb. oa. 9,113 8 2,560 2,225 215 141 144 52 21 15 7,357 4 6,691 15 767 7 392 2 462 4 163 13 67 11 47 1 2,558 2,504 238 159 133 64 26 14 7,629 0 7,850 12 765 0 394 6 382 5 201 11 81 11} 31 1 1,246 1,075 170 205 279 95 72 45 12 2,607 10J 2,535 12 422 2J 549 2 636 01 240 13 276 12 163 7 31 10 1,457 1,348 176 196 246 181 109 39 2,773 5} 3,128 1 474 15 474 3} 505 0 472 14 388 0* 168 15 "23 22 61 6} 39 1 15 47 15 25 9 77 6 35 13 "l9 4 34 4 8 15 3 11 8 2 8 22 & 23 8 Totals 63,813 10| 6,547 7,298 18,567 56,273 0$ 19,454 15,595 8J 17,547 2 J

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Negotiations for direct exchanges with the Cape Colonies, Canada, and the French Colonies are likely to terminate favourably. Owing to the want of unanimity on the part of the Australian Colonies, the reduction in the parcel rates to and from the United Kingdom has not yet been settled. There is now, however, reason to suppose that the reduced rates of Is. for the first, and 6d. for each succeeding pound, instead of Is. 6d. for the first 21b. and 9d. for each succeeding pound, will be adopted at the end of the year. Eeductions in parcel rates to the following countries, via London, have been made : Bechuanaland Protectorate and Mashonaland, Cameroons and Togo, Canada, Chili, Constantinople and Smyrna, Finland, France, Italy, and Switzerland,

Official Correspondence. The estimated number and value of official correspondence posted during the year are given in the statement below: —

Dead Letters. The following comparative table shows the number of unclaimed letters, letter-cards, and postcards, dealt with from 1884 to date: —

The exceptional increase of unclaimed letters dealt with in 1895 has been occasioned in a laro-e measure by the return to the Australian Colonies of a considerable number of undeliverable racing-sweep circulars, which had been posted as letters. The proportion of dead or unclaimed letters to the total number of letters dealt with in the colony was 0-34 per cent. 35,001 book-packets and circulars were returned to foreign countries, 34,304 were returned to senders through the Dead Letter Office, 10 were re-issued, and 24,764 were returned by Chief Postmasters : a total of 94,079 book-packets and circulars, as compared with 77,778 in 1894. The under-mentioned articles of value were found in letters opened in the Dead Letter Office, and returned to the senders where practicable ; —

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District. Letters. Packets. Registered Articles. Newspapers. Value Auckland Thames New Plymouth Gisborne Napier Wanganui ' Wellington Nelson Westport Grey mouth Hokitika Blenheim Christchurch Timaru 242,070 43,446 77,736 28,080 116,014 132,142 722,460 56,455 26,088 38,403 16,433 43,513 232,872 145,847 37,700 282,460 109,608 17,750 3,120 5,689 2,036 8,430 9,601 52,616 ■4,073 1,885 2,768 1,164 3,183 16,866 10,548 2,690 20,660 7,927 8,471 1,546 2,729 1,024 4,096 4,643 25,575 2,008 974 1,372 726 1,538 8,123 5,096 1,302 9,863 3,843 164,148 28,982 51,998 18,873 78,384 88,968 488,628 37,844 17,520 25,743 10,784 28,982 157,368 97,830 24,938 192,068 73,566 £ 6,772 1,194 2,149 777 3,232 3,676 20,107 1,559 722 1,055 448 1,194 6,499 4,028 1,027 7,881 3,028 Oaniaru Dunedin Invercargill ■ Totals 2,351,327 171,006 82,929 1,586,624 £65,348 The estimated value for 1894 was £59, 174 10s. 2d.

Manner of Disposal. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 188!). 1890. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. Opened and returned to the writers Returned unopened to other countries Reissued Destroyed Returned unopened by Chief Postmasters .. 68,942 9,134 107 3,986| 66,592 8,115 185 2,872 66,729 8,359 251 6,600 62,847 7,287 96 5,974 55,118 6,892 88 5,246 62,654 60,540 6,220 7,779 92 141 4,340 2,660 21,164 21,931 63,483 7,751 128 2,092 62,209 8,255 160 2,941 61,745 8,941 130 4,725 61,065 12,929 199 3,617 17,593 19,187 21,144 20,185 19,963 19,909 23,115 22,042 25,980 Totals 99,762 96,951 103,083 96,3891 87,307 94,470 93,051 93,363 96,680 97,583 103,790

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s, s. a. 211 post-office orders ... ... ... .. ... 539 0 4 27 bank drafts ... ... ... ... ... ... 917 5 8 129 cheques ... ... ... ... ... ... 978 5 5 3 dividend warrants ... ... ... ... ... 239 6 promissory notes ... ... ... ... ... 66 19 10 Postal-notes ... ... ... ... ... ... 66 12 6 Stamps ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 22 17 5 Bank-notes ... ... ... ... ... ... 136 0 0 Gold ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 10 0 Silver and copper .. ... ... ... ... 11l Eepresenting a total of ... ... ... £2,737 16 0 In addition, 3 gentlemen's silver watches, 1 lady's silver watch; 1 silver watch, chain, and locket; 1 waterbury watch and steel chain, 2 gold masonic jewels, 2 pairs gold earrings, 2 gold brooches, 1 silver brooch, 1 mother-of-pearl brooch, 1 gold chain bracelet, 4 gold rings, 1 gold pin, 1 scarf pin, 1 pearl tie pin, 5 studs, 1 silver locket, 1 silver medal, 19 silk handkerchiefs, 1 silk scarf, 3 pairs of gloves, 1 woollen petticoat, 1 purse containing coin and stamps, 1 violin string; 1 steerage ticket, Melbourne to Bluff; 1 steerage return ticket, Brisbane to Napier; 1 order for steerage passage, San Francisco to New Plymouth; 1 Avonside 'bus ticket, value 35.; 1 pawn ticket for 55., 8 racingsweep tickets, 4 sheets foreign stamps. 1,091 unclaimed registered letters were dealt with. 907 newspapers and 1,748 books and other articles without addresses were received, a considerable number of which were subsequently applied for and delivered. 722 newspapers were returned to the publishers. 270 letters were posted without addresses—at the rate of 10 per million. 168 letter-cards were posted without addresses—at the rate of 264 per million. 36 letters with libellous addresses were intercepted. 530 letters were wrongly addressed. 28 letters were discovered to have been posted with previously-used stamps. The number of inland, intercolonial, and international unclaimed articles received and disposed of during the year 1895 was as under: —

Registered Letters. The number of registered articles dealt with in 1895, compared with the numbers in 1885, 1890, and 1894, is shown below: —

Letters. Lettercards. Postcards. Packets. Newspapers. Inland. Eeturned, delivered, &c, through Dead-letter Office ... Eeturned by Chief Postmasters direct Destroyed in accordance with law ... 48,631 25,380 2,871 1,202 2,212 600 131 34,314 24,764 2,121 722 71 5,071 Intercolonial. Originally addressed to other colonies :— Eeturned to writers Destroyed in accordance with law Eeturned to other colonies as unclaimed ... 5,148 304 8,379 14 1 24 452 24 3,950 International. Originally addressed to other countries : — Eeturned to writers Destroyed in accordance with law Eeturned to other countries as unclaimed 4,046 238 4,513 11 1 13 510 27 31,051 Total 99,510 1,273 3,007 97,213 5,793

1885. 1890. 1894. 1895. Postal Districts. From Places beyond the Colony. Registered in the Colony. Totals. Prom Places beyond the Colony. Registered in the Colony. Totals. From Places beyond the Colony. Registered in the Colony. Totals. Prom Places beyond the Colony. Registered in the Colony. Totals. iuckland rhames .. New Plymouth jisborne .. Napier Wanganui Wellington kelson Westport .. 3-reymouth Hokitika .. 3lenheim jhristehurch rimara )amara .. Dunedin .. !nvercargill 5,890 205 675 108 892 283 4,757 559 45 125 173 181 3,717 440 316 5,645 1,614 22,124 2,879 2,876 922 5,453 4,500 19,218 2,432 1,438 2,835 1,907 1,413 13,678 3,153 1,947 12,737 6,661 : 28,014 i 3,084 8,551 1,030 6,345 4,783 23,975 2,991 1,483 2,960 2,080 1,594 17,395 3,593 2,263 18,382 8,275 7,119 130. 341 118 999 211 6,129 322 112 102 95 92 3,659 312 278 4,615 1,740 34,398 4,781 3,372 2,120 10,911 6,060 30,369 3,430 3,254 8,879 2,579 3,193 20,404 3,551 2,505 19,696 9,819 41,517 4,911 3,713 2,238 11,910 6,271 36,498 3,752 3,366 8,981 2,674 3,285 24,063 3,863 2,783 24,311 11,559 195,695 11,446 178 360 199 833 689 7,715 268 129 299 70 101 4,480 186 147 5,187 2,199 34,486 58,032 5,199 7,180 3,319 16,302 11,753 50,463 5,726 2,977 6,866 4,060 3,624 24,944 3,898 2,515 23,554 14,279 ! 69,478 i 5,377 i 7,540 > 3,518 : 17,135 ■ 12,442 ■ 58,178 5,994 3,106 7,165 4,130 3,725 29,424 4,084 2,662 28,741 16,478 11,042 226 505 228 1,195 397 10,055 1,239 194 365 206 120 4,465 1,510 1,252 5,520 2,579 47,350 7,955 8,576 3,812 16,917 16,300 50,900 6,956 4,409 4,989 3,624 4,447 28,302 4,514 2,569 28,188 14,507 254,315 58,392 8,181 9,081 4,040 18,112 16,697 60,955 8,195 4,603 5,354 3,830 4,567 32,767 6,024 3,821 33,708 17,086 Totals 25,625 106,173 131,798 26,374 169,321 244,69l! 1279,177 41,098 295,413

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Inland Mail-sebvices. The number of contracts for inland mails in operation at the end of 1895 was 707, as compared with 668 in 1894. The length of inland postal routes (counted one way only), exclusive of railway routes, was 9,992 miles, and the total number of miles travelled 1,982,727, at an average cost of 3 - 74 d. per mile. The railway postal routes aggregated 2,822 miles, and the trains with mails travelled 2,396,533 miles during the year. For the conveyance of mails by ordinary railway-trains the department is now charged £29,328 10s. a year, based on a rate of £15 a mile for main lines, and 3d. extra per mile for haulage of the special sorting-carriages, and £10 per mile for conveyance over branch lines, as from the Ist April, 1895. The following mail-services were established during the year : — Auckland— As required : Eussell Post-office and vessels in harbour; Waiwera Post-office and steamers. Thrice weekly : Birkenhead and Birkdale (open mail delivery) ; Mamaku Post-office and Eailway-station ; Otahuhu and Bast Tamaki. Twice weekly : Morrinsville and Kiwitahi; Whakapirau Post-office and steamers. Weekly : Mangawai and Te Arai (making twice-weekly mail) ; Ongaruhe and Nihoniho; Putaruru and Lichfield; Tauhoa and Mangakura; Topuni Wharf and Port Albert (extension of Wellsford and Topuni Wharf service) ; Towai and Marlow ; Waima and Taheke ; Waiotemarama and Waimamaku ; Wairangi and Matahuru. Blenheim— Daily: Blenheim and Springlands (by Chief Post-office letter-carrier). Weekly : Blenheim and Lower Awatere. Fortnightly : Havelock, Maori Bay, Homewood, Brightlands, and Ketu Bay (bysteamer). Christchurch— Thrice weekly: Hinds and Lismore; Pigeon Bay Saddle and Little Eiver (giving Little Eiver a daily mail). Twice weekly : Springfield and Kowai Bush. Dunedin— Five times weekly : Glenoamaru Post-office and Eailway-station ; Owaka Post-office and Eailway-station, Weekly : Owaka and Katea. Greymouth— Twice weekly : Totara Flat, Granville, and Noble's. Invercargill— Thrice weekly : Oteramika Post-office and Eailway-station. Weekly : Clifden and Papatotara ; Manapouri and Hillside Creek. Monthly : Bluff, Puysegur Point, and Cromarty (by steamer). —Renewal. Napier— Daily : Hastings and Pakipaki. Weekly: Napier and Pohui; Weber and Government Camp, Akitio; Wimbledon and Weber. Nelson — Thrice weekly : Ngatimote and Pokororo. Weekly : Turner's (Eai Valley) and Okiwi Bay. New Plymouth— Weekly : Strathmore and Wangamomona. Thames — Daily: Waitekauri and Paeroa. Timaru — Thrice weekly : Kakahu Bush and Kakahu School. Weekly : Ashwick Flat and Sherwood Downs and Clayton (extension of FairlieAshwick Flat service). Wanganui— Weekly : Marohema and Ngamatapouri. Wellington — Daily : Dalefield Post-office and Eailway-station ; Feilding, Awahuri, and Campbelltown ; Foxton, Moutoa, and Shannon; Levin and Foxton; Pahautanui and Judgeford (extension of Paremata-Pahautanui service); Silverstream Post-office and Railway-station. Thrice weekly: Eketahuna, Kaitawa, Eongomai, Tane, and Pahiatua; Waikanae and Eeikorangi. Twice weekly : Campbelltown and Taikorea ; Pemberton and Euahine. Weekly: Alfredton and Waterfalls; Gladstone and Wainuioru; Makuri and Pongaroa; Pohangina Township and Upper Pohangina (open mail-bag); Waituna West and Tapuae. Westport— Twice weekly : Lyell and Alpine Hill. Weekly: Murchison and Upper Matakitaki (re-established); Upper Matakitaki and Moonlight's Point. Monthly : Westport and Little Wanganui (by steamer).

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The frequency of the following services was increased: — Auckland— Thrice weekly to daily : Birkenhead and Birkdale ; Coromandel, Driving Creek, and Tokatea. Thrice to five times weekly: Auckland, Tarukenga, and Eotorua (by train). Twice to thrice weekly : Eotorua, Atiamuri, Wairakei, and Taupo. Weekly to thrice weekly: Waiwera, Puhoi, and Warkworth (section of DevonportWellsford service). Blenheim— Weekly to twice weekly : Picton, Kenepuru, and Manaroa. Christchurch— Thrice weekly to daily : Ashburton, Elgin, Wakanui, and Eiverside ; Flemington and Longbeach Eoad; Medbury Post-office and Eailway-station; Willowby and Eiffelton. Thrice to five times weekly: Lyttelton, Little Akaloa, and Okain's Bay. Twice to four times weekly : Valetta and Mayfield. Twice to thrice weekly : Christchurch and Gebbie's Flat. Weekly to twice weekly : Lyttelton and Port Levy. Additional mail on Saturday evenings from Christchurch to Belfast, Southbrook, Styx, and Waipara (by railway). Dunedin — Twice to thrice weekly : Palmerston and Morrison's. Weekly to twice weekly : Outram and Clark's. Gisborne— Weekly to twice weekly : Gisborne, Pakarae, Hauiti, and Tolaga Bay. Greymouth— Thrice weekly to daily : Ngahere and Nelson Creek. . Invercargill — Twice to thrice weekly : Gore, Waikaka, Waikaka Valley, and Wendon Valley. Napier— Fortnightly to weekly : Nuhaka, Morere, and Maraetaha (Moss Side); Tokaanu and Taupo ; Wairoa, Nuhaka, and Mahia. Nelson — Fortnightly to weekly : Turner's (Eai Valley) and Okiwi Bay. New Plymouth — Twice to thrice weekly : Stratford and Cardiff. Oamaru— Daily to twice daily : Enfield Post-office and Eailway-station ; Ngapara Post-office and Eailway-station ; Weston Post-office and Eailway-station; Windsor Postoffice and Eailway-station. Twice to thrice weekly : Livingstone and Marowhenua. Timaru— Twice to thrice weekly : Hilton, Kakahu Bush, and Kakahu School. Wanganui— Thrice weekly to daily : Ohingaiti and Mangaweka. Twice to thrice weekly : Manaia, Kapuni and Kaponga; Ohingaiti and Three-log Whare (re-named Mangaweka) ; Otakeho and Awatuna. Weekly to twice weekly: Mangaonoho and Waiouru, and Waiouru and Pipiriki, during summer months. Wellington — Twice to thrice daily : Levin Post-office and Eailway-station. Thrice weekly to daily: Cuningham's and Waituna West; Feilding and Makino; Pahiatua and Makuri. Twice to thrice weekly : Eketahuna, Pleckville, Tawataia, and Alfredton ; Pahiatua, Mangahao, and Ballance. Weekly to twice weekly : Makuri and Coonoor. Westport— Monthly to fortnightly : Westport and Karamea, by steamer. The frequency of the following services was diminished: — Auckland— Thrice to twice weekly : Auckland, Pahi, Paparoa, and Matakohe. Twice to once weekly : Auckland and Batley ; Oxford North and Lichfield; Waotu and Lichfield. Christchurch — Four to three times daily : Christchurch and Sydenham. Invercargill— Twice to once weekly : Te Anau and Mararoa (during winter). Nelson — Weekly to fortnightly : Turner's (Eai Valley) and Okiwi Bay (during winter). New Plymouth — Twice to once weekly : New Plymouth and Albert Eoad (during winter). Timaru— Twice to once weekly : Fairlie and Ashwick Flat.

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Wanganui— Twice to once weekly: Ohingaiti, Otaihape, Moawhango, and Tokaanu (during winter); Pipiriki, Mangaituroa, Ohakune, and Karioi (during winter). Wellington — Daily to thrice weekly : Greytown North and Morrison's Bush. The following services were abolished : — Auckland— Paparoa Post-office and Wharf; Warkworth and Puhoi horse-service (Puhoi served by Devonport-Warkworth coach). Nelson— Eiwaka, Marahau, and Sandy Bay. New Plymouth — New Plymouth and Albert Eoad. Thames— Waitekauri and Junction on Tauranga-Paeroa Eoad (Waitekauri-Paeroa service substituted). Wellington — Foxton and Kereru (replaced by Foxton-Moutoa-Shannon service); Morrison's Bush and Martinborough ; Pahiatua and Kaitawa ; Pemberton and Buahine. Westport— Murchison and Upper Matakitaki (but subsequently re-established); Upper Matakitaki and Moonlight's Point. The river-steamer service between Wanganui and Pipiriki—hitherto maintained by the Lands and Survey Department, but used for mail purposes—has been renewed jointly by that department and the Post Office from May last for five years, at an annual subsidy of £350. From October to March the steamer will run twice weekly, and for the remainder of the year weekly. The agreement provides that, at the end of the first year, the contractors may be required to extend the service once a week to Kohuratahi, on the Tangarakau Eiver, on payment of an additional subsidy of £400 per annum for five years. Kohuratahi is about forty-eight miles beyond Pipiriki, where some of the finest river scenery is to be met with. The service to Kohuratahi will not only be a popular one with tourists, but settlement in the Wangamomona, and indeed in a far wider, district will be materially aided, as communication by steamer will be much easier than by road from Stratford. Meanwhile, the river beyond Pipiriki is being cleared of snags and the rapids improved. A special steamer has already been ordered for the proposed extended service. The coach service between Pipiriki and Tokaanu has been renewed for three years at a greatly reduced subsidy. It will continue to connect regularly with the Wanganui Eiver service. The contract for the Springfield and Kumara coach service expired on the 31st December last. The service was re-advertised, and renewed for three years from the Ist January last, at a considerable reduction in cost. The re-letting of the inland mail-services takes place this year. It has been decided that the contract term shall be three, in the place of two, years, a change which should prove advantageous to the department and tenderers. Buildings. The new offices at Cheviot, Hastings, Queenstown, and Stratford have been completed. The following general repairs, additions, &c, were carried out during the year: Additions to Akaroa office ; enlarging, repairing, and painting Coromandel office ; additional room to office at Clinton ; quarters enlarged and repairs to Carterton office ; additions and alterations to Dunedin Telephone Exchange; Feilding, buildings painted; Telephone Exchange accommodation provided at Greymouth ; Hokitika, Kumara, and Lyell, buildings repaired and painted; Lower Hutt, office painted ; Lyttelton, office repaired and painted; repairs to Milton office ; repairs and additions to Mataura quarters; repairs to Dunedin North office; repairs to Naseby office; alterations to Oamaru Telephone Exchange; Porangahau office repaired; additions to Paeroa office; alterations to Parliament Buildings office; repairs and painting Eeefton and Eangiora offices; repairs to Eoxburgh office; alterations to Timaru Telephone Exchange; alterations to office, Otago Heads; general repairs, General Post Office, and additions to Telephone Exchange; additions to Whakatane office. The new office at Hawera, which had just been completed, and not even occupied, was destroyed by the fire which broke out in the township on the night of the 29th August last. The work of rebuilding is in hand. The Marton office was also destroyed by fire on the morning of the Ist May last. The fire originated in one of the neighbouring business houses. A new office is to be erected without delay. An office at Martinborough is about completed. New buildings are to be erected at Waihi, Waitekauri, and Ashurst. Additions and alterations are to be made to the offices at Kuaotunu, Geraldine, Wakapuaka, Bealey, and Eiverton. Ocean Mail-services.. The "Monowai" has replaced the "Arawa" in the San Francisco service, the contractorsnot finding it practicable to re-employ the latter vessel, which had been temporarily withdrawn in May, 1894, for repairs. Information is to hand that a Bill has passed the United States Congress providing for an increased annual contribution of 80,000 dollars, for a term of years, in aid of the San Francisco mail-service. This should lead to a general improvement of the service,

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The contractors for the San Francisco mail-service have decided to replace the " Monowai" by a larger and more powerful steamer of about 4,000 tons, to be fitted with all modern improvements and appliances. She is to steam sixteen knots on her trial trip, and, when loaded, is to maintain an average sea-going speed of between fourteen and fifteen knots. The new steamer is expected to be running in the service early next year. The question of establishing a mail-service via Vancouver was submitted to the House of Representatives at the close of last session in connection with the provisional agreement entered into between the Postmaster-General and Mr. James Huddart on the 19th April, 1895. (See P.-9, 1895.) The proposals of the Government, however, were withdrawn for the time being on the understanding that the matter would be brought forward the ensuing session. The regularity of the San Francisco service has been maintained. The average time within which the mails were delivered in London and Auckland was slightly less than during the previous year. The net cost of the service to the colony was £7,310 10s. 4d., as compared with £7,963 l"ss. 3d. for 1894. The direct payment by the colony for its own mails was £7,588 14s. 7d. The total sum paid over to the contractors, inclusive of amounts recovered from the Imperial Post Office and noncontracting colonies, was £18,134 19s. sd. The average time within which mails were delivered by the San Francisco service was : From Auckland to London, 33-08 days (the same as in 1894); and from London to Auckland, 32-85 days, as compared with 3300 days in the previous year. The shortest delivery was made in 32 days. The maximum, minimum, and average number of days within which the mails were delivered at and from London and Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, and Bluff during 1895 by the San Francisco contract service, and by the Peninsular and Oriental and Orient lines, were : — San Francisco Service. P. and O. Line. Orient Line. London to Auckland .. .. 34 32 32-85 .. 48 38 41-00 .. 49 38 42-50 Auckland to London .. .. 35 32 33-08 .. 44 38 39-54 .. 46 38 3974 London to Wellington.. .. 36 34 34-85 .. 48 38 41-50 .. 49 39 41-42 Wellington to London.. .. 37 34 35-08 .. 46 40 43-78 .. 46 38 4286 London to Dunedin .. .. 37 35 3608 .. 53 39 42-60 .. 51 39 4290 Dunedin to London .. .. 38 35 3608 .. 47 40 41-85 .. 49 39 42-25 London to Bluff .. .. 38 36 36-83 .. 52 38 41-85 .. 50 38 42-15 Bluff to London .. .. 39 36 3683 .. 46 39 41-10 .. 48 38 41-50 Receipts and Payments on Account of the San Francisco, Peninsular and Oriental, and Orient Mail-services for the Year 1895. San Francisco Service. De. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Payments by weight— On mails from New Zealand ... ... ... 1, 588 14 7 On mails from the United Kingdom ... ... 5,028 2 5 On mails from the Australian Colonies, Fiji, &c. 5,518 2 5 18,134 19 5 Interprovincial service, Mail Agents, &c. ... ... 3,704 10 8 „ . f San Francisco to New York ... ... 4,633 2 7 lransltcoscs {New YorktoQueenstown ... ... 1,902 5 5 28,374 18 1 Ck. Postages collected in the colony ... ... ... 10,518 2 11 Postages from London ... ... ... ... 5,028 2 5 Contributions from non-contracting colonies ... ... 5,518 2 5 21,064 7 9 Net cost to the colony ... ... ... ... ... £7,310 10 4 475,321 letters, 494,845 books, and 1,054,203 newspapers were received from, and 505,538 letters, 89,772 books, and 406,237 newspapers despatched to, the United Kingdom via San Francisco. The letters received from the United Kingdom by this route show an increase of 4-30 per cent., the books an increase of 4-81 per cent., and the newspapers an increase of 4'Bl per cent.; and the letters despatched thereto show an increase of 1-04 per cent., the books a decrease of 0-82 per cent., and the newspapers a decrease of 0-82 per cent., against the numbers forwarded in 1894. P. and O. and Orient Lines (Federal Mail-service). De. £ s. d. £ s. d. Payments to P. and O. and Orient Lines ... ... 3,122 8 5 Transit charges across Australia ... ... ... 143 12 3 Transit charges across European Continent ... 488 11 3 Gratuities (to and from Australia) ... ... 1,597 14 9 5,352 6 8 Cβ. Postages collected in the colony ... ... ... 2,728 0 10 Postages from London and foreign offices ... ... 921 19 6 3,650 0 4 Net cost to the colony ... ... ... £1,702 6 4 The numbers of letters, books, and newspapers conveyed from and to the United Kingdom by the P. and O. and Orient packets were: Received— 410,027 letters, 269,158 books, and 1,084,299 newspapers; despatched—l29,9B2 letters, 22,916 books, and 92,158 newspapers,

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Return showing the several Subsidised Mail Sea Services, the Subsidy Payments for the Year 1895, the Dates when established, and the Date on which each terminates.

Money-obdebs. Eleven money-order offices were opened during the year—namely, Blackball Mine, Fairfax, Kaikohe, Linwood, Makuri, Mangaweka, New Brighton, Eaetihi, Eangiwahia, Eimu, and Te Aute; and the office at Panmure was closed. The number of offices open at the end of the year was 364, as against 354 the previous year. 243,497 money-orders, for £812,604 14s. lid., were issued, as compared with 222,678 orders, for £776,783 4s. lid., in 1894—an increase of 20,819 orders and £35,821 10s. in amount. 183,995 money-orders, amounting to £709,533 10s. Bd., were paid, as against 174,810, for £678,556 Is., paid during 1894—an increase of 9,185 in number and £30,977 9s. Bd. The number of telegraph money-orders issued was 25,856, for £95,546 9s. 10d., as compared with 22,721, for £82,148 9s. 6d., in 1894—an increase of 3,135 orders and £13,398 os. 4d. 80,897 orders, for £177,541 175., were issued on the United Kingdom, Australian Colonies, and other places beyond New Zealand. 21,458 orders, for £75,018 6s. 7d., were issued at places beyond New Zealand for payment in the colony. The commission received for money-orders amounted to £11,433 13s. Bd., as compared with £10,600 19s. 7d. received in 1894. Postal Notes. The sale of postal notes was extended to the following post-offices not money-order offices : Apiti, Colyton, Grookston, Bllerslie, Kirikiriroa, Manaroa, Niagara, Okarito, Port Fitzroy, Toko, Waihopo, Waituna West, and Whananaki; and the postal-note offices at Hawea Flat, Panmure, and Whangapoua were closed. The number of offices at which postal notes were sold at the end of the year was 418, as compared with 394 at the end of 1894. 349,627 postal notes, of the value of £123,368 6s. 6d., were sold, as against 319,368, of the value of £112,307 10s., sold in 1894. The postal notes paid numbered 346,510, of the value of £122,538 14s. 6d., as compared with 317,519, of the value of £111,789 195., paid during the previous year —an increase of 28,991 in number and £10,748 15s. 6d. in value. The postal-note commission amounted to £2,411 os. 9-Jd., an increase of £187 13s. 6d. on the amount received in 1894. Savings -banks. Ten savings-bank offices were opened—namely, Blackball Mine, Fairfax, Kaikohe, Linwood, Makuri, Mangaweka, New Brighton, Raetihi, Eimu, and Te Aute; and the office at Panmure was closed. The number of offices open at the close of the year was 357 —an increase of 9. 30,261 new accounts were opened, being 1,592 more than the number opened the previous year, 22,001 accounts were closed, as compared with 21,930 in 1894—an increase of 71. iii—F. 1.

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Duration of Service. Service. Payment. Number ol Mileage for complete Voyage. Cost per Mile. When terminated or terminable. per Annum. When established. Auckland and San Francisco Auckland and Fiji Auckland and South Pacific Islands Auckland and Great Barrier Helensville and Matakohe Helensville and Dargaville Koreke, Kohukohu, Rawene, Waitapu, and Omapere Russell and Opua Wellington, Ketu Bay, Maud Island, Maori Bay, Homewood, and Havelock Nelson, Motueka, Totaranui, Takaka, and Oollingwood Westport and Karamea .. Westport and Little Wanganui Hokitika, Okarito, Bruce Bay, Paringa, Haast River, Okuru, Waitoto, and Jackson's Bay Lyttelton and Chatham Islands Bluff and Half-moon Bay Bluff, Puysegur Point, and Cromarty Paterson's Inlet and Half-moon Bay Half-moon Bay and Port Pegasus .. [nterprovincial service in connection with San Francisco line £ s. d. 7,588 14 7 1,690 0 0 1,200 0 0 250 0 0 Nov., 1885 June, 1880 June, 1885 Oct., 1891 Nov., 1897 13 13 12 52 J 52 { 104 11,916 2,334 6,992 112 118 } 170 J s. d. 0 11-76 1 1-37 0 3-43 0 10-30 * Dec, 1896 I 480 0 0 I fl94 10 0 Jan., 1881 Dec, 1896 0 4-84 1 6-70 Jan., 1889 Dec, 1896 52 48 90 0 0 Jan., 1889 Dec, 1896 104 16 1 0-98 1 150 0 0 I 125 0 0 I 170 0 0 I 500 0 0 Dec, 1891 ( June, 1886 ( Jan., 1895 Nov., 1896 Dec, 1896 Dec, 1896 Dec, 1896 26 52 26 12 183 130 102 ) 82 f 0 7-57 0 4-44 0 11-22 Jan., 1886 Dec, 1896 6 384 4 4-08 300 0 0 250 0 0 July, 1886 March, 1898 Dec, 1896 6 52 1,050 48 0 11-43 2 0-04 I 360 0 0 April, 1893 March, 1897 12 208 2 10-62 29 0 0 5 0 0 April, 1892 June, 1894 Dec, 1896 52 10 12 84 0 11-15 0 1-43 1 3,000 0 ) Nov., 1886 Nov., 1897 * On three months' notice. t Tb: 'ee services merged into one, Ja] iuary,1895.

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The number of accounts remaining open at the end of the year was 137,683, as against 129/123 in 1894—an increase of 8,260. The proportion of accounts to the population was Ito 507. The proportion in 1894 was 1 to 53. The number of deposits was 217,393, for £2,794,506 16s.—an increase of 12,848 deposits and £541,644 9s. Id. over 1894. The average of each deposit was £12 17s. Id. In 1894 the average was £11 os. 3d. 159,904 withdrawals, amounting to £2,369,333 6s. 7d., were made, as compared with 152,136, for £2,268,624 Bs. 4d., during 1894—an increase of 7,768 in number and £100,708 18s. 3d. in amount. The average of each withdrawal was £14 16s. 4d., as against £14 18s. 3d. in 1894. The excess of deposits over withdrawals was £425,173 9s. 5d., as compared with an excess of withdrawals over deposits of £15,762 Is. sd. in 1894. The interest credited to depositors for the year was £129,489 19s. 6d., being £14,846 14s. 7d. more than the sum credited the previous year. The total amount of interest placed to the credit of depositors' accounts since the establishment of the Post-Office Savings-Bank in 1867 has been £1,514,008 16s. 3d. The balance standing to the credit of depositors at the close of the year amounted to £3,895,543 os. 3d. —a sum equal to £5 11s. 6d. per head of the population. In 1894 the balance was £3,340,879 11s. 4d., representing £4 17s. sd. per head. The average cost of each savings-bank transaction, deposit or withdrawal, for the year was 4'45d., and for the period of the existence of the savings-banks 4'B3d. The number of accounts with balances of £20 and under increased by 5,840 ; with balances exceeding £20 but not exceeding £200 by 1,336, as compared with 216 the previous year; and exceeding £200 by 1,084, as against 286 in 1894. A statement of accounts, with classified balances, is given in Table No. 9. The reduction of the deposit rates by private banks, and the difficulty experienced in investing money except at unusually low rates of interest, resulted in large sums being diverted to the Post-Office savings-banks to await permanent investment. For the first three quarters of the year the deposits were £2,136,027 Bs. Id., and the withdrawals £1,762,593 14s. 4d. : the deposits exceeding the withdrawals by no less than £373,433 13s. 9d. For the December quarter the excess of deposits was £51,739 15s. Bd., as compared with £106,534 7s. 6d. for September quarter. In March quarter of this year the deposits amounted to £732,934 125., and the excess over withdrawals increased to £61,721 4s. 6d., notwithstanding a reduction of one-half per cent, in the interest rates. The reduction in the interest —from 4 per cent, to 'A\ per cent, on deposits up to £200, and from 3f per cent, to 3 per cent, on deposits exceeding £200 up to £500—took effect on the Ist January last. TELEGEAPHS. There has been a general increase of business. The increased number of forwarded telegrams is, in a large measure, to be attributed to the business activity in gold-mining at Auckland and Thames. This particularly applies to cable messages and urgent telegrams. The latter increased 4625 per cent, in number and 4596 per cent, in value for the year. The delayed telegrams decreased 8-63 per cent, in number, the result of the change made in the delivery on the Ist December last, under which these telegrams were not posted until the evening, in the place of being posted as received throughout the day. A diminished business in delayed telegrams was anticipated, and an increase in the number of ordinary telegrams looked for. The latter increased 13"17 per cent. The total value of the telegraph and telephone business for the year ended 31st March last,, including Government telegrams and miscellaneous receipts, was £148,955 18s. Bd., as compared with £136,062 11s. 2d. in 1894-95—an increase of £12,893 7s. 6d., or 9-48 per cent. The following is a comparison of the business in paid telegrams for the past three years : — Number. Value. 1893-94 ... 1,839,094 ... ... ... ... £88,371 1894-95 ... 1,802,182 Decrease, 2-01 per cent. ... 85,388 Decrease, 3-38 per cent. 1895-96 ... 1,899,632 Increase, 5-41 per cent. ... 92,289 Increase, 8-08 per cent. The number of telegrams of all codes forwarded was 2,124,211 —an increase of 90,411, or 445 per cent., over the number forwarded in 1894-95. The proportion of telegrams per head of population was 305, as compared with 2-99 the previous year. The namber of ordinary telegrams forwarded was 1,015,248, of the value of £56,515 15s. 3d., as against 897,114, of the value of £50,503 11s. 5d., the former year. The urgent telegrams numbered 59,038, of the value of £7,510 10s. 4d.—an increase of no less than 46-25 and 4596 per cent, respectively. The number of delayed telegrams fell from 588,826, of the value of £18,213 12s. 10d., in 1894-95 to 537,984, of the value of £16,645 25.; due, as already explained, to the delivery on receipt throughout the day having been abolished. The proportion of delayed telegrams to ordinary telegrams fell from Ito 152 in 1894-95 to Ito 1-89. The change in the delivery, which was made on the Ist December last, was in operation for only four months of the year. 198,108 Press telegrams, of the value of £9,507 18s. Bd. (including proportions to other lines), were forwarded, as compared with 197,414 messages, valued at £9,586 os. 7d., forwarded in 1894-95 —an increase of 694, or 035 per cent., in number. The value of each Press telegram averaged 11-56 d., as against 11'65d. in 1894-95. The bureau messages forwarded numbered 89,254, of the value of £2,110 3s. 2d., as compared with 78,461 messages, of the value of £1,939 2s. 3d., sent during the previous year—an increase in number of 10,793, or 1376 per cent.

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The average value of each bureau message was 5'67d., as against 5'93d. in 1894-95. The number of Government telegrams forwarded was 224,579, of the value of £25,843 lls. lid., as compared with 281,618, valued at £26,050 7s. sd.—a decrease of 7,039 in number and £206 15s. 6d. in value. 25,856 money-orders, for £95,546 9s. 10d., were transmitted by telegraph, as against 22,721, for £82,148 9s. 6d., forwarded in 1894-95—an increase of 3,135 messages, or 13-8 per cent. The number of forwarded telegrams to every hundred letters posted in the colony for delivery within the colony was B'3B, which was also the proportion for the previous year. The telegraph cash receipts for the financial year (including telephone-exchange subscriptions, private-wire rents, &c.) amounted to £123,112 6s. 9d., compared with £110,012 3s. 9d. in 1894-95 —an increase of £13,100 35., or 11-91 per cent. The expenditure was £143,665 145., as compared with £135,791 os. 7d. the former year—an increase of £7,874 13s. 5d., or 5-8 per cent. The credit balance for the year, after taking into account the value of Government telegrams, &0., was £5,290 4s. Bd. 61 knots of single-core cable were laid. The length of the single-core cables is now 209 knots. There were 6,245 miles of line and 15,764 miles of wire at the close of the year, an increase of 184 and 883 miles respectively. The net expenditure out of loan for telegraph extension was £35,537 15s. 2d., as compared with £19,228 19s. in 1894-95. The number of private wires and subsidised lines was 115, compared with 123 in 1894-95. The amount received for rent, maintenance, &c, was £971 6s. 9d., as against £1,278 6s. Bd. in 1894-95. The Taupiri and Sanson offices were converted from Morse to telephone, and Waihi from telephone to Morse. Twenty-two bureau offices were opened and one closed during the year. The total number of telegraph- and telephone-offices open at close of the year was 743. Of these, 233 were telegraph, and 510 telephone, offices. Thirty-eight telephone-offices were opened, and one closed. The offices opened wens, — Albert Town. Linwood. Robin Hood Bay. Apiti. Luggate. Rock and Pillar. Babylon. Makakahi. St. Albans. Bennett's Mangatera. St. Glair. Cape Maria Va,n Diemen. Maropiu. Tamaliere. Oloseburn. Maxwelltown. Tapanui Railway. Driving Greek. Newman. Tutaekara. Eskdale. Ocean Bay. Upper Queen Street. Flaxbourne, Ogilvie's. Waitekauri. Hohoura. Parenga. Waituna West. Hurleyville. Pohangina. Whakataki. Kaihu. Pohui. Woolston. Kiripaka. Raumai. One telegraph-office was closed, namely, White's Bay ; and one telephone-office, namely,. Mornington. Telephone Exchanges. There were, on the 31st March last, 16 central exchanges and 10 sub-exchanges, a total of 26. The following table gives the number of subscribers or connections for 1895-96 and 1894-95 respectively: — T7, . No. of Subscribers or Connections : iixcnange. lgg6 Mm gl> 18gg> Ashburton ... ... ... ... ... .80 Auckland ... ... ... ... ... 938 ... 811 Blenheim ... ... ... ... ... 64 ... 58 Christchurch ... ... ... ... ... - 849 ... 814 Dunedin ... ... ... ... ... 859 ... 819 Balclutha ... ... ... ... ... 19 ... 19 Milton ... ... ... ... ... 14 ... 14 Port Chalmers ... ... ... ... 17 ... 16 Greymouth ... ... ... ... ... 65 ... 65 Invercargill ... ... ... ... ... 216 ... 205 Bluff ... ... ... ... ... 20 ... 20 Gore ... ... ... ... ... 48 ... 49 Mataura ... ... ... ... ,-.. 8 ... 9 Eiversdale ... ... ... ... ... 14 ... 13 Winton ... ... ... ... ... 9 ... 9 Woodlands ... ... ... ... ... 8 ... 7 Napier ... ... ... ... ... 275 ... 249 •Nelson ... ... ... ... ... 61 ... 61 New Plymouth ... ... ... ... 100 Oamaru ... ... ... ... .. 87 ... 84 Palmerston North ... ... ... ... 81 ... 79 Thames ... ... ... ... ... 78 74 Timaru ... ... ... ... ... 73 ... 70 Wanganui ... ... ... ... ... 118 ... 107 Wellington ... ... ... ... ... 1,041 ... 963 Hutt ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... 1 Total ... ... ... ... 5,143 ... 4,616

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The total increase in number was, therefore, 527, and the rate of increase 11-42 per cent. The connections may be classified as follows: Paying, 4,876; free, 105; bureaux, 162 : total, 5,143. The telephone-exchange receipts during the financial year amounted to £25,933 12s. 9d., as compared with £21,552 12s. 10d. the previous year, an increase of £4,380 19s. lid. The working-expenses, interest on capital cost, and allowance for depreciation for the year amounted to £29,452 17s. 3d. The total expenditure in connection with the telephone-exchange system to 31st March, 1896, was £125,108 4s. Id. There were 475 miles of exchange-wires erected, and 30 miles of line constructed, during the year. On the 31st March last there were 389 miles of line, and 4,947 miles of wire, connected with the telephone-exchanges. Particulars of the working of the exchanges are given in Table No. 20. The following telegraph works have been carried out during the year in the several districts :— Auckland District. Construction. During the year the following new lines have been completed and opened for traffic, viz.: Hamilton to Morrinsville, Wangarei to Kiripaka, Awanui North to Cape Maria Van Diemen with branches, Waitekauri loop-line, Dargaville to Kaihu, Driving Creek loop-line, Auckland to Onehunga, Taupiri to Hunfcly, Frankton Junction loop-wire, Takapuna Eacecourse wire. Of the works in progress, the following was the condition on 31st March last: Copper wire, Wellington and Auckland, erected from Auckland as far as Hamilton; copper wire, Auckland to Paeroa, erected from Auckland to Hamilton. The construction work for the year was 113 miles of line, and 294 miles of wire. The telephone line from Wangarei to Poroti has been marked off, and the material is in course of delivery. The construction will be commenced forthwith. Telephone sound-proof boxes were fitted at Waiuku, Howick, Te Kopuru, and Onehunga. The following offices were opened during the year, viz. : Telephone offices—Hohoura, Parenga, Cape Maria Van Diemen, Waitekauri, Driving Creek, Babylon, Maropiu, Kaihu, and Tamahere. Five number annunciators were fitted at Te Kopuru, Wangarei, Ohaeawai, Hamilton, Kawakawa, Te Awamutu, Devonport Bureau, Onehunga, and Waipu. On the following circuits the constant current Morse instruments have been introduced with much advantage: Ohaupo and Hamilton, Takapuna Eacecourse and Auckland, Kaikohe and Ohaeawai, ('pua and Kawakawa. The telephone office at Waihi has been converted to a Morse station, while Taupiri has been converted to a telephone station, terminal with Huntly. The.Thames office has been fitted with a set of duplex instruments to work with Auckland. This has, so far, met the increased business. Maintenance. On the section from Kaipara Lighthouse (Poutu) to Te Kopuru, 22 miles of corroded wire have been renewed, and 8 poles replaced. One mile of old wire has been replaced with copper wire on Tiritiri Island. At Mongonui, one mile of line has been diverted from the harbour route to follow the road, and re-erected on iron poles, The overhauling for the year comprised 205 miles of poles and wires examined and left in good order. Where necessary, poles were renewed and others butted. There are several sections on which important renewals will, in the near future, be necessary. This reconstruction it is proposed should be effected with iron poles, so soon as a sufficient stock can be obtained. The sections requiring early attention are Otahuhu to Taupiri, Hamilton to Cambridge, Thames to Coromandel, and Kawakawa to Eussell. The lines to the north of Auckland suffered considerably through the late bush-fires, an aggregate of 48 poles having been destroyed. The use of iron poles will, of course, prevent similar losses in future. Auckland Exchange. The enlargement to this Exchange has been very marked. Since the date of last report 134 new subscribers have been added. This large increase is mainly due to the development of the mining industry. The following will show the extension work in connection with the Exchange : New wires erected, 95 miles; old wires renewed, 19 miles; 30 wire cables erected, 51 chains; 1 bureau station (Upper Queen Street) fitted up and opened. ■ Thames Exchange. During the year eleven telephones have been added, with one mile of new wire. The diversion of mining operations to Coromandel and Paeroa will explain the non-fulfilment of the progress anticipated here at the date of last yearly report.

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Wellington Distbict. Construction. Thirteen new telephone stations have been opened during the year, viz. : Apiti, Eskdale, Hurleyville, Makakahi, Mangatera, Maxwelltown, Newman, Pohangina, Pohui, Eaumai, Tutakaera, Waituna West, and Whakataki; and m connection therewith 49 miles of poles and 50 miles of wire have been erected. Additional wire accommodation being required to overtake the increased traffic in rising districts throughout the North Island, a new copper wire has been erected between Wellington and Auckland, so that the old iron wire might be available for the minor stations. Taking advantage of the fact that the gap in the Forty-mile Bush, between Eketahuna and Pahiatua, had been bridged over by the opening of Newman, Makakahi, and Hainua offices, this new wire was taken by that route, it being twenty miles shorter than the old one. By the same route another wire has been run between Masterton and Pahiatua, connecting with Woodville, Palmerston North, and Feilding, thereby giving a second route to those offices, as well as direct communication with Wellington. A new line has been constructed between Wellington and Makara (a second wire having been run since last report) to carry the wires connected with the cables at Oterangi Bay. Separate wires have been erected between Bunnythorpe and Feilding (Bunnythorpe being cut out of the main telegraph wire) and between Bulls and Sanson, and the latter office converted into a telephone-station. A total of 65 miles of poles and 380 miles of wire have been erected in connection with extensions. Maintenance. The main lines, generally, throughout the district are in good order. The Paikakariki to Marton section of the West Coast main line, however, especially that portion between Paikakariki and Foxton, is somewhat unsafe. This line has always given a considerable amount of trouble, owing-to'leakage in consequence of its close proximity to the sea. To overcome this, and seeing that a large sum of money would be required to put the old line in thorough order, it has been deemed more advisable to reconstruct the line from Paikakariki by way of the Manawatu Eailway-line, and to continue it via Palmerston North, along the line of Government Eailway as far as Marton, where it will join the old line. It is anticipated that this diversion will save a considerable expenditure annually in maintenance, besides giving better results in dealing with the traffic. The New Plymouth telegraph-office has been entirely refitted. The other offices in the district are in good order. Telephone Exchanges. Since last report, an exchange has been opened at New Plymouth. There are now a hundred subscribers. The exchanges at Wellington, Napier, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are all in good working order, and the number of subscribers is steadily increasing. The large number of subscribers now connected with the Wellington Exchange has made it necessary to order a " Multiple " extension-board from England, in order that the work of the Exchange may be more satisfactorily and expeditiously overtaken. Cables. The second new cable, referred to in last report, was laid between Oterangi Bay and White's Bay, on 6th January, with the best results. The old No. 4 Cable was overhauled, and the fault indicated last year cut out. The cable has worked most satisfactorily since. Nelson Disteict. Construction. New lines erected: White's Bay to Ocean Bay, about seven miles, on iron-rail poles; shunt line to Flaxbourne from main line, 1 mile (iron) : total, eight miles. New wires run : Extra wire, White's Bay to Blenheim, fourteen miles ; Nelson to Wakapuaka, fifteen miles; Tuamarina to Koromiko, seven miles; copper wire, No. 12-J, has been substituted for old No. 1 between Blenheim and Kaikoura, which was No. 8 iron (about eighty-six miles): Total wire run, 130 miles. Overhauls and Repairs. The line from Belgrove to Sherry Biver (22 miles) has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired. Iron rails have been used to replace decayed wooden poles where required. The sections, Motueka to Takaka (40 miles) and Westport to Inangahua (27 miles), have been thoroughly cleared of scrub, and doubtful poles attended to. The condition of lines is generally satisfactory throughout the district, and beyond the usual attention necessary in rough parts of country, nothing in the way of extra outlay is to be anticipated during the ensuing year. New Stations. Telephone offices have been opened at Ogilvie's, Ocean Bay, Eobin Hood Bay, and Flaxbourne. Telephone Exchanges. The three exchanges, namely, Nelson, Greymouth, and Blenheim, are in a satisfactory condition. iv—F. 1.

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Cheistohubch District. The following new works were completed in this district during the year, namely : — Telephone offices opened at Bennett's and St. Albans, the erection of six miles of wire, and establishing a Telephone Exchange at Ashburton, the subscribers to which number eighty. Ghristchurch to Eaikoura and Branches. The line between Papanui and Kaiapoi, nine miles, must be entirely rebuilt this year. The poles are now altogether too weak to carry so many wires. All crossings must be raised on 30ft. or 35ft. poles. Waipara to Kaikoura. This line is being diverted, and will run alongside the main coach road. Copper instead of iron wire is being used. The line between Waipara and Waiau at different points is being diverted and strengthened for the purpose of carrying new wires. When completed, this will be a good line, and one that will be easily and cheaply maintained. Between Waiau and Kaikoura, old railway-metals will be used in the place of wooden poles. One wire will be left standing on the old line for Cheviot and Hawkswood, and an office opened at the latter place so soon as the new line is completed. Christchurch to Akaroa Branch. This line will have to be overhauled, as many of the poles are much decayed. The Peninsula lines are all in good order. Christchurch Loop-line and Branches. The line from Bealey to Taipo has received a thorough overhaul during the year, and is in as good and safe condition as it possibly can be. That portion betwen Old John's and the Loophne will be dismantled and the line taken into Kumara, thereby saving many miles of wire. Otago Disteict. Construction. The new works completed during the year were as follows : Removal of the main line from the old road to the railway-line between Kennington and Ota Creek. Extension of the Woodlands Bureau wire to Mataura, Tapanui to Crookston, Hyde to Eock and Pillar, Highcliff to Sandymount, Dunedin to The Camp, Mataura to Gore Bureau wire, Balfour to Lumsden: total 24J miles of poles, and 157 miles of wire. Sixteen miles of old line and ninety-six of wire were dismantled. Nine new stations were opened, namely : Albert Town, Closeburn, Luggate, Eock and Pillar, and Tapanui Eailway-station. The office at Mornington was closed. Maintenance. At the end of May last year there was an exceptionally severe snow-storm, which more or less wrecked some five hundred miles of line throughout the district, principally in Central Otago, and between Mosgiel and Kingston. The snow having adhered to the wires to such an extent that in many cases it was about 4in. in diameter, the weight was so great that either the poles, wires, or arms gave way, and double iron rail-poles in some instances were thrown to the ground. Seven hundred new poles have been used in repairing and strengthening the damaged lines. Fortuna.tely,. such damage from snow is rare ; the only previous instance of any importance being in 1878, when about thirty miles of line between Mataura and Invereargill were similarly wrecked. One hundred and seventy-five miles of line have also been thoroughly overhauled, and renewed where necessary. The rest of the district lines required no special attention. The mileage of telegraph and telephone lines in the district at the end of the year was, 1,504 miles of poles, and 4,057 of wire. The usual charts showing the position of telegraph lines accompany the report.

Erratum. —Table No. 18, page 22: The telegraph revenue for the financial year 1895-96 should be £97,1TS 14s. OJd. in the place of £99,178 14s. O^d.

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Table No. 1. Table showing the Number and Amount of Money Orders issued and of Money Orders payable in New Zealand, Year by Year, since the Year 1880.

I— F. 1.

:SSUED IN THE !OLONY. Where payable. Australia and other British Possessions. Total. Year. Commission received. In the Colony. No. Amount. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices. No. 1 Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 T891 1892 1893 1894 1895 £ s. d. 7,943 15 4 7,582 8 5 8,267 9 8 9,022 10 6 9,525 3 8 9,553 o 7 8,541 7 10 8,532 10 5 8,377 6 4 8,696 13 5 8,823 i° ° 9,649 14 9 9,452 o o 10,248 14 5 10,600 19 7 ",433 13 8 97,275 99,523 108,916 132,232 144,227 146,406 "3,598 119,091 122,042 127,323 130,641 138,555 140,672 146,133 |i55,534 162,600 £ •■ d. 320,260 19 11 321,635 3 3 360, ig6 4 9 402,558 12 11 430,446 18 10 439,870 3 9 412,276 3 o 426,194 13 9 432,056 6 2 458,469 7 7 472,967 4 7 504,834 16 9 540,763 15 o 576,358 17 2 608,042 2 11 635,062 17 11 27,587 25,376 25,898 26,211 28,712 28,722 27,389 26,057 26,636 26,206 25,053 26,590 27,451 29,616 128,513 28,882 £ s. d. 104,149 -5 10 90,229 5 3 91,530 17 9 91,634 4 7 96,901 14 o 95,920 9 IO 87,904 9 10 84,264 12 9 81,488 10 3 79,i67 o 4 74,566 13 9 77,481 2 9 78,848 1 7 86,544 19 n 79,348 IO 2 78,465 O 4 10,786 10,657 13,348 I4-H3 13,113 13,494 14,693 14,431 13,709 i8,547 20,733 30,094 3i,3i5 35,208 38,631 52,015 £ s ' d. 40,994 15 4 40,317 19 2 47,641 7 5 46,939 17 11 45,317 12 4 45,604 15 2 ■47,574 9 11 45,285 6 11 42,451 4 4 51,909 6 10 54,543 3 7 69,674 o o 75,235 7 10 88,025 8 9 89,392 11 10 99,076 16 8 |I35,648 ;I35,556 148,162 [172,556 186,052 188,622 155,680 159,579 162,387 172,076 176,427 195,239 :I99,438 |2io,957 1222,678 i243,497 £ *; d. 465,405 1 1 452,182 7 8 499,368 9 11 541,132 15 5 572,666 5 2 58i,395 8 9 547,755 2 9 555,744 13 5 555,996 o 9 589,545 14 9 602,077 1 11 651,989 19 6 694,847 4 5 750,929 5 10 776,78.3 4 11 812,604 14 11 Drawn on the Colony. Where issued. Year. In the Colony. United Kingdom & Foreign Offices Australia and other British Possessions. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. [880 [881 .882 [883 .884 [885 [886 .887 :888 :88g :8go 891 1892 893 894 895 97,275 99,523 108,916 132,232 144,227 146,406 H3,598 119,091 122,042 127,323 130,641 138,555 140,672 146,133 155,534 162,600 £ »■ d. 320,260 19 11 321,635 3 3 360,196 4 9 402,558 12 11 430,446 18 10 439,870 3 9 412,276 3 o 426,194 13 9 432,056 6 2 458,469 7 7 472,967 4 7 504,834 16 g 540,763 15 o 576,358 17 2 608,042 2 11 635,062 17 II 3,466 3,466 3,421 3,725 4,535 5,204 5,824 6,334 7,336 7,469 7,775 7,910 8,152 8,746 9,293 9,938 £ s- d - 14,811 14 8 14,078 17 3 13,416 1 9 15,553 3 11 17,679 o 6 20,091 17 4 22,650 1 10 23,423 16 2 26,262 14 5 26,887 17 9 27,975 15 5 28,518 14 o 29,349 14 7 32,616 17 2 33,786 17 6 35,155 7 9 3,913 4,649 5,076 5,697 6,755 7,725 9,545 8,963 15,365 15,859 13,331 13,604 11,291 10,679 10,690 11,520 £ s. d. 15,829 o 3 18,863 4 2 21,090 4 10 23,299 12 11 27,429 18 6 30,724 6 4 36,513 3 11 33,254 2 3 56,141 '4 1 56,402 1 4 47,890 2 6 48,700 9 6 41,064 6 6 40,929 2 5 38,571 3 1 39,862 18 10 104,654 107,638 "7,413 141,654 155,517 159,335 129,242 i33,9io 144,450 150,651 151,747 160,069 160,115 165,558 175,517 184,058 £ s. d. 350,901 14 10 354,577 4 8 394,702 11 4 441,411 9 9 475,555 17 10 490,686 7 5 471,185 7 o 482,437 17 4 513,728 8 2 541,759 6 8 548,833 2 6 582,054 o 3 611,177 16 1 649,904 16 9 680,400 3 6 710,081 4 6

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Table No. 2. Table showing the Money Orders issued in New Zealand on Offices beyond the Colony, and Money Orders issued at Offices beyond the Colony on New Zealand, during the Years 1894 and 1895.

isued in New Zealand. 1894. 189SWhere payable. Number. Amount. Number. Amount. Jnited Kingdom foreign Offices through London Jnited States of America .. Danada .. Colony "eylon .. -longkong india few South Wales Queensland ... South Australia Straits Settlements rasmania Victoria Western Australia 23,822 2,109 2,582 197 23 16 76 108 9,200 15,569 606 6 £ s. d. 65,153 19 11 8,629 18 5 5,564 11 10 643 3 o 139 16 6 79 5 7 468 1 11 327 17 3 29,071 18 6 21,184 18 2 1,664 17 5 18 9 2 3,845 12 1 31,013 8 9 935 3 6 24,064 2,146 2,672 225 40 37 134 266 10,815 27,984 606 £ s. d. 63,952 19 6 8,743 7 11 5,768 12 11 664 16 4 157 9 9 171 18 1 734 o 3 1,409 4 9 29,132 8 2 33,277 13 10 i,772 7 9 10 13 8 3,634 19 3 26,550 7 3 1,560 17 7 i,47i 11,171 188 4 1,460 10,130 314 Totals 67,144 168,741 2 o 67,144 80,897 177,541 17 o I 'ED BEYOND New ZEALAND. Issi 1894. 1895. Where issued. Number. Amount. Number. Amount. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices United States of America Canada Cape Colony Ceylon Hongkong India New South Wales Queensland South Australia Straits Settlements Tasmania Victoria Western Australia 8,574 719 187 82 16 10 26 4,519 736 472 1 948 3,281 £ s - d. 30,538 9 8 3,248 7 10 1,095 14 1 616 19 8 41 11 5 23 12 7 131 15 1 15,839 2 2 2,957 1 4 1,405 10 1 2 10 o 3,782 4 1 11,067 16 8 1,607 511 8,940 . 998 158 160 19 27 52 4,59i 784 575 7 898 3,167 1,082 £ s. d. 30,809 14 10 4,345 12 11 77i o 7 914 12 5 54 r 3 5 117 5 10 226 7 6 14,595 17 1 2,959 4 2 1,684 14 4 13 18 6 3,214 19 7 9,993 8 6 5,316 16 11 412 Totals 21,458 75,018 6 7 '2,358 o 7

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Table No. 3. Table showing the Number and Value of Postal Notes sold from the 1st January, 1886— the date upon which they were first issued— to the 31st March, 1896.

Number of Postal Notes sold. Total. Year. At Is. At Is. 6d. At 2s. 6d. At 5s. At 7s. 6d. At 10s. At 12s. 6d. At 15s. At 17s. 6d. At £1. At £5.* Number. Value. £ s. d. Quarter ended 31st March, 1886 3,019 2,046 1,012 2,039 969 2,379 695 992 525 2,866 16,542 6,997 5 6 1886-87 .. 16,605 12,283 6,647 11,566 5,729 13,103 4,090 5,187 I 2,375 14,961 92,546 37,659 7 0 1887-88 22,467 17,167 9,162 15,553 7,671 17,487 5,278 6,940 2,952 17,578 122,255 47,729 5 0 1888-89 .. 27,428 21,900 11,912 1 19,741 9,477 21,149 6,618 8,243 3,633 19,778 149,879 56,841 18 0 1889-90 32,754 25,387 14,478 23,550 10,894 24,011 7,809 9,386 4,158 22,596 175,023 65,484 2 0 1890-91 35,915 28,559 16,092 25,204 12,229 25,906 7,969 10,172 4,366 23,503 189,915 69,721 18 6 1891-92 .. 42,416 33,722 19,383 29,550 14,019 30,132 9,058 11,611 4,953 25,839 220,683 79,325 16 6 1892-93 .. 48,612 38,849 22,038 33,012 16,072 32,747 *9,904 12,330 5,369 28,969 247,902 87,856 18 0 1893-94 56,761 44,706 ! 25,461 I 37,771 I 18,096 37,687 11,016 ; 13,800 6,156 33,935 285,389 101,002 7 6 1894-95 .. 62,306 49,846 28,975 43,829 20,423 43,167 11,864 15,567 6,790 36,601 319,368 112,307 10 0 1895-96 .. 68,454 56,185 32,801 49,204 22,802 47,787 13,601 17,191 7,020 33,390 1,192 349,627 123,368 6 6 I 416,737 330,650 187,961 291,019 138,381 295,555 87,902 111,419 48,297 260,016 1,192 2,169,129 £788,294 14 * First issued on 17th June, 1895.

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Table No. 4. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the several Money Order and Savings Bank Offices in New Zealand during the Year 1895.

Money Orders, Saving! Banks. Office. Issued. Paid. £ = c <° Deposits. Is < ° Withdrawals. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. Auckland Alexandra Aratapu Avondale Bombay Cambridge Clevedon Coromandel Dargaville Devonport Drury Hamilton Helensville Hikurangi Huntly Kaeo Kaikohe Kaitaia Kamo Kaukapakapa .. Kawakawa . Kihikihi Kohukohu Kuaotunu Mangapai Mangawai Mangawhare .. Matakana Matakohe Matamata Mauku Maungatnroto .. Mercer Mititai Mongonui Morrinsville Mount Eden .. Newmarket Newton Ngaruawahia .. Ohaeawai Ohaupo Oraapere Onehunga Otahuhu Otorohanga Oxford N.(Tirau) Pahi .. Panmure Papakura Paparoa Parnell Parua Bay Pokeno Ponsonby Port Albert Pukekohe Raglan Rangiriri Rawene Rotorua Russell Tairua Taupo Te Awamutu .. Te Kopuru Te Kuiti Tokatoka Tuakau Upper Symonds Street Wade Waipu Waiuku Waiwera Wangarei Wangaroa Waotu ' .. Warkworth Wellsford Whitianga 17,819 151 719 65 144 668 166 1,716 1,168 357 177 931 513 498 519 207 287 33° 342 164 .509 181 196 926 280 211 195 125 65 102 50 107 211 173 647 146 41 355 831 282 265 152 257 513 220 £ s - d. 1,051 8 3 4 9 3 30 17 6 2 II 3 429 26 4 o 5 1 6 89 11 3 103 15 3 15 16 0 5 14 6 35 19 3 20 8 6 16 5 9 19 13 3 8 15 3 22 19 3 12 18 9 11 o 9 769 19 4 o 6 6 6 12 3 o 58 4 o 10 o 9 7 7 6 6 14 6 3 17 6 2 13 o 3 19 3 1 13 o 4 14 9 6 14 6 5 S 9 37 5 6 5 19 9 1 6 9 15 4 9 37 19 9 11 9 o 11 14 o 5 16 o 19 6 6 25 15 9 10 4 6 11 12 0 6 16 o 899 o 7 6 5 16 o 7 13 6 12 12 o £ s - d - 64,129 4 9 500 13 4 2,040 2 9 199 2 10 489 7 o 1,848 2 3 430 18 3 5,7l6 I I 5,oo5 9 5 840 18 3 520 13 3 2,596 17 10 i,537 19 n 1,632 14 6 1,548 411 589 4 9 994 18 4 872 2 3 876 7 o 513 13 6 1,460 11 o 478 8 1 855 2 10 7,038 12 11 1,021 5 5 488 9 3 553 10 4 326 8 2 151 7 1 371 13 10 134 13 10 37 1 9 11 649 1 3 431 15 10 2,216 6 6 418 9 6 43 3 4 947 11 2 1,761 2 7 854 o 1 714 5 o 507 16 2 1,437 13 4 1,361 15 o 554 o 7 757 5 7 565 15 4 532 10 10 21 10 1 454 16 11 718 6 4 761 o 8 574 14 4 214 16 6 710 19 4 844 4 4 i,44 5 5 4 681 4 10 280 10 o 602 4 o 5,213 11 10 760 12 5 517 18 11 4 8 4 1 3 788 5 3 2,425 17 2 627 6 o 73° o 5 676 13 6 590 11 2 28,551 62 140 90 69 446 87 776 190 317 81 675 182 97 207 47 22 63 156 22 197 93 63 206 » 60 • 34 25 44 14 31 20 80 82 33 132 100 135 287 1,217 182 63 75 39 954 287 58 27 70 16 148 48 577 35 29 547 92 173 "5 46 123 459 156 81 £ s - d - 101,843 7 8 342 1 9 74° 13 5 347 J 6 5 375 o 2 1,748 12 10 352 11 1 7,611 14 1 75° 3 9 1,314 12 4 399 15 9 2,491 5 4 620 6 6 644 16 6 979 6 10 170 12 3 112 16 7 381 19 4 749 7 3 74 17 2 624 7 3 300 17 8 318 6 8 2,368 3 11 286 7 7 178 6 5 61 13 6 187 6 3 39 6 4 211 11 9 77 !9 4 217 18 10 341 11 7 118 6 o 502 10 8 472 12 4 457 6 8 972 14 4 4,024 5 8 717 11 7 260 5 1 336 15 11 226 6 4 3,423 12 4 1,059 8 i° 245 14 4 105 2 5 260 11 4 53 3 o 691 7 10 159 o 1 2,012 15 4 176 8 5 195 2 IO 1,725 14 8 348 17 11 820 8 8 600 19 2 207 7 10 502 7 7 2,652 8 10 786 6 1 7°5 7 5 128 17 11 806 18 o 988 6 9 105 16 8 77 14 5 508 17 8 350 1 11 2,162 7 47 5 7 63 8 138 151 54 7 95 26 25 36 15 49 13 33 19 36 16 17 62 13 23 14 11 12 8 5 9 16 11 34 13 3 16 7i 33 28 12 13,086 34 37 2 40 73 451 127 582 703 416 57 684 215 127 181 140 198 107 213 269 91 97 256 49 145 100 59 44 72 37 63 80 61 190 120 15 129 657 235 128 £ ■■ d. 299,688 5 1 236 6 o 1,996 19 o 156 17 o 57O 3 o 6,970 1 8 547 17 ° 10,533 15 8 9,464 19 6 2,039 9 o 332 13 o 7,78i 7 8 1,277 15 o 945 19 o 2,243 11 o 976 4 o 1,428 11 o 769 o o 3,734 19 o 769 5 o 3.677 I 8 4 1,029 g o 700 10 o 5,572 8 5 851 13 10 1,199 2 o 933 9 o 505 18 o 284 3 o 569 19 o 383 18 o 761 o 0 1,303 8 4 554 2 10 1,788 15 o 1,183 11 o 2150 481 11 7 4,674 2 2 1,270 13 11 966 16 o 929 6 o 366 8 o 2,052 1 8 1,727 8 11 1.678 9 o 648 13 o 750 11 o 2,166 3 2 5 261 8 17 55 9 1 55 11 10 21 6 4 3 12 4 22 16 5 7 2 2 1 2 2 4 5 7 3 3 8 16,721 60 79 i? 58 225 38 219 136 149 20 368 9i 54 85 44 33 36 I3« 36 118 68 40 92 17 26 3° 34 19 3 1 17 23 60 3° 57 43 6 28 84 130 47 27 24 100 £ ■■ d. 297.553 10 2 566 4 1 1,245 8 7 126 4 2 602 4 4 3.494 15 5 363 16 5 3,383 13 3 3,604 6 5 570 17 7 121 15 o 7,904 10 2 593 13 1 1,022 11 o 1,097 J 9 8 371 9 ° 287 4 2 547 2 I0 2,601 5 10 255 16 5 2,175 1 10 327 1 5 583 10 9 1,188 17 7 389 16 8 231 1 11 443 15 o 297 7 4 351 19 1 555 4 6 217 9 1 184 8 9 765 o 4 587 17 1 638 11 1 1,052 4 o 23 6 9 84 5 1 680 o 2 1,140 1 4 511 2 1 324 18 0 124 3 4 887 o 3 1,196 4 11 1,404 1 o 1,052 6 2 236 12 1 2 4 36 31 39 13 15 73 69 205 204 154 97 88 2 9 18 9 7 7 15 18 24 2 6 211 180 218 10 176 212 263 181 68 315 340 417 198 129 183 1,219 267 175 133 268 845 137 212 198 250 122 89 40 49 20 7 61 122 52 532 20 742 4 I 393 14 ° 795 13 11 144 5 o 580 4 o 512 o o 761 9 o 2,149 15 o 823 8 7 68 19 o 443 18 o 4,045 10 II! 1,526 14 2 4°9 8 5; 1,177 O 8: 2,404 4 7| 2,355 1 2| 650 o o 314 13 o 337 9 4 319 8 o. 5 3 11 3 1 56 28 50 17 17 33 57 116 57 13 41 194 40 16 7 112 62 545 8 1 494 15 5 139 13 7 71 5 9 128 2 2 221 3 8 556 5 7 1,632 10 3 725 2 7 54 17 4 357 16 6 2,193 X 7 ° 705 13 1 116 8 11 5 9 3 200 12 o 6 9 13 o 16 1 9 8 12 3 3 12 6 7 15 3 66 6 3 9 12 6 10 7 9 5160 11 4 9 32 14 9 586 11 11 o 690 11 6 3 4 6 12 17 31 15 3 12 98 20 16 49 107 129 188 125 10 13 6 X 4 10 2 7i 308 74 73 3 1 210 296 43 39 32 HO 4 35 7 6 2 21 23 204 180 15 15 103 97 22 30 49 15 6 6 11 7 3 5 24 13 35 3° 102 3 4 1,691 6 11 814 18 9 441 11 11 137 12 7 422 4 4 81 6 o 9 117 501 575 82 1,525 150 51 378 74 1,010 3 11 o 16 9 3 21 4 3 2 17 o 67 14 6 6 17 6 1 19 6 13 o 9 2 10 3 42 17 o 260 16 10 1,453 2 5 1,833 16 1 303 1 9 4,781 19 8 422 £4 6 no o 9 1,439 12 6 193 6 9 3,276 12 11 40 109 174 35 640 55 24 163 45 128 179 8 7 559 1 6 860 10 9 136 13 8 2,477 n 1 219 12 6 144 18 2 687 12 o 201 6 6 636 6 1 15 20 3 2 761 156 147 47 798 87 r 7 167 32 441 1,583 6 o 1,829 9 10 1,461 12 o 680 5 o 12,819 2 3 534 4 8 101 6 o 2,264 11 2 228 13 o 3,157 12 o| 6 5 11 23 68 84 19 360 20 5 85 11 134 3 3 773 3 11 869 13 5 360 9 3 6,828 11 2 105 4 9 45 3 1 1.432 17 5 61 19 4 1,600 14 3 4 164 12 4 15 4 62 1 65 6 1 9 5 16 170

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Table No. 4 — continued. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the several Money Order and Savings Bank Offices in New Zealand during the Year 1895 — continued.

Money Orders. Saving; Banks. Office. Issued. Paid. Deposits. Withdrawals. No. Commission, Amount. No. Amount. z S, M <; o I No. Amount. No. Amount. Blenheim Cullensville Havelock Kaikoura Kekerangu Picton Renwicktown .. Spring Creek .. Cheistchurch .. Akaroa Alford Forest .. Amberley Ashburton Bealey Belfast Chertsey Cheviot Coalgate Culverden Darfield Dunsandel Duvauchelle ' .. Ellesmere Hanmer Plains Hinds Hororata Kaiapoi Kirwee Leeston Lincoln Linwood Little River .. Lyttelton Methven Mount Somers.. New Brighton .. Oxford Papanui .. Pigeon Bay Rakaia Rangiora Rolleston Sheffield Southbridge Springfield Sydenham Tinwald Waiau Waikari Whitecliffs Woolston DUNEDIN Alexandra South Balclutha Caversham Clinton Clyde Cromwell Dunback Dunedin North Green Island .. Greytown South* Hamilton's Heriot Hyde Kaitangata Kelso Lawrence Macrae's Flat .. Middlemarch .. Miller's Flat .. Milton Mosgiel Naseby Nenthorn Ophir Outram Owaka Palmerston Patearoa 2,321 367 571 579 147 796 76 167 14,438 466 98 302 2,218 93 108 74 558 105 152 144 93 ' 195 18 88 118 J 34 536 115 315 128 42 379 1,863 236 107 7 427 73 no 327 940 23 182 284 289 564 61 £ s. d. 108 7 3 15 7 9 20 19 6 25 4 6 683 27 18 6 2 14 6 6 19 9 754 2 6 20 13 o 206 II 12 O 90 13 3 369 3 12 o 226 21 18 o 3 18 3 770 7 10 o 5 13 9 6 18 o 0 16 o 2 19 O 3 2 0 4 17 3 22 18 9 5 1 6 12 o o 899 1 19 6 14 1 6 91 16 o 846 5 13 o 050 15 15 3 3 13 3 5 1 o 12 4 9 38 19 3 0 14 o 7 1 o 10 18 9 10 13 6 28 10 6 2 16 3 13 15 6 10 17 3 4 19 o 3 2 6 529 2 3 31 18 6 37 8 3 5 15 6 19 4 9 12 13 o 27 13 9 2 12 3 59 2 9 5 11 3 1 19 o 6 17 9 5 3 6 45 18 o 30 6 3 6 11 3 31 12 3 12 7 9 16 5 3 5 12 9 27 1 o 11 O O 32 3 o 1 18 6 22 16 3 7 16 o 24 13 9 21 O 3 796 £ s. d. 7,397 15 5 1,051 o 5 2,185 12 4 1,829 5 4 34° 3 8 2,344 12 1 224 3 1 599 o 4 47,589 16 10 i,325 13 5 256 8 4 802 9 4 7,233 18 10 279 8 3 252 10 8 203 17 1 3,213 4 8 353 15 9 552 4 4 562 16 9 319 15 3 593 2 9 42 I 4 283 9 1 306 6 10 415 14 11 1,657 15 3 507 14 5 973 12 o 444 o 8 76 17 7 I,l67 15 2 6,523 5 o 703 19 7 380 8 3 4 10 4 i,378 12 1 210 19 1 349 12 10 1,020 11 10 2,766 13 10 48 19 7 613 13 2 1,002 18 10 830 4 8 i,599 18 4 226 19 g 1,030 8 7 977 14 7 408 5 9 279 11 5 33,666 17 1 2,699 5 10 3,125 19 6 390 13 8 1,756 15 6 1,155 8 8 2,237 16 11 248 10 1 3,220 12 11 34° " 7 174 12 5 891 9 4 398 19 4 4,044 8 7 2,557 1 o 692 14 4 2,522 5 8 1,383 8 8 i,539 I? 10 588 7 2 2,170 4 11 616 5 9 2,895 16 4 164 14 6| 1,907 16 ol 588 10 10! 2,980 15 2 i,734 2 8 682 4 2 1,35° 38 196 170 6 440 T 4 58 18,666 195 4 171 834 8 20 11 148 29 62| 171 36| 120 5 13 32 22 372 42 351 116 11 94 746 33 33 2 228 99 25 106 588 10 61 J 75 no 422 3° 45 85 40 42 22,985 129 486 333 105 129 186 36 607 182 29 8 39 87 289 43 499 22 70 9 387 300 239 6 62 £ s - d. 4,900 I 2 285 14 5 985 2 2 665 11 o 17 19 11 1,700 11 2 39 3 o 198 1 8 65,624 8 4 624 14 o 35 4 o 597 15 7 3,189 3 1 57 « 6 51 18 11 43 9 2 927 16 6 108 9 5 3°6 4 5 54 I 5 139 3 ° 342 15 5 15 4 9 65 19 10 118 19 4 58 9 9 1,859 14 o 118 2 1 1,015 Io 7 43 1 15 8 28 14 6 482 12 8 2,819 7 5 130 16 8 136 8 2 9 5 6 1,176 2 9 370 16 5 135 17 2 454 4 2 2,113 9 8 27 13 5 227 4 4 642 5 6 1,215 4 5 1,398 8 7 87 12 10 227 18 11 379 6 5 134 1 o 125 2 7 82,828 13 10 506 7 10 1,987 11 10 973 9 5 388 3 6 362 16 2 781 11 3 137 14 1 2,366 14 5 563 7 10 122 4 1 23 18 4 138 13 1 467 18 4 i>345 3 11 167 15 6 1,73° 1 5 63 7 6 374 5 8 32 1 10 1,261 18 11 889 3 6 831 6 o 31 6 8 209 5 3 424 5 5 899 o 9 1,581 1 4 74 18 8 312 14 37 75 66 17 7 3.4 62 52 23 239 5 9 9 26 10 12 8 17 20 4 14 15 2 no 9 38 7 7 24 180 18 11 6 46 10 15 25 214 2 7 51 3 135 4 26 21 2,380 69 270 279 42 439 107 7 1 32,368 294 '258 1,871 33 84 62 128 61 77 81 64 80 29 46 45 39 887 48 312 100 57 133 1,625 188 54 8 232 89 55 207 i,i93 18 £ * d. 31,874 16 2 823 3 o 1,984 3 3 4,208 4 9 274 3 o 7.327 ° 7 803 15 7 446 8 o| 427,111 1 10 3,599 7 3 3,010 2 2 18,252 11 3 382 12 o 458 11 o 470 10 o 2,061 1 10 681 2 3 1,882 8 1 423 10 o 510 17 o 817 12 5 564 14 o 702 7 o 118 4 o 356 14 o 8,799 8 9 4H 5 o 4,018 5 4 720 18 8 180 7 6 2,127 9 6 14,685 13 6 1,162 18 5 483 12 8 2 15 o 3,348 12 11 459 o o 765 7 o 2,132 3 7 20,628 11 9 64 7 o 924 18 8 4,296 1 5 764 12 o 5,i6i 3 9 396 19 o 1,889 15 o 1,453 6 11 598 17 ° 1,140 19 o 304,542 2 9 1,422 4 9| 6,377 19 3 1,006 o 1 1,450 10 6 1,129 I? ° 1,808 3 6 672 1 o 20,082 16 2 963 10 o 252 9 5 184 10 3 257 7 o 432 9 1 2,563 3 o 365 15 o 6,102 13 2 69 13 o 879 9 o 634 13 8 5,735 14 10 2,713 2 11 1,938 14 i° 15 4 o 664 o 10 1,685 13 2 1,108 17 o 2,841 18 7 34 1 : IO; 17 32J I 30 I 2,761 20 8 134 1 16 1 4 6 9 2 .. el 4 62 2 11 1 4 79 12 3 18 2 14 102 I 2,240 62 130 104 3 212 29 15 27,3 12 118 "98 866 8 11 H 120 21 27 21 32 22 2 16 22 3 5 4 28 126 16 5 40 616 64 27 '136 30 15 96 587 9 46 130 46 186 60 67 47 30 15 20,568 75 214 3i 51 33 62 £ s, d. 35,070 13 4 671 17 11 1,383 7 10 2,398 4 10 201 11 9 4,489 17 11 518 18 o 58 6 6 394,769 13 8 2,332 5 o i,43i 3 10 13,867 6 7 142 o o 92 o o 112 19 4 1,724 5 6 260 9 11 843 9 1. 164 6 4 230 3 6 401 16 4 200 115 16 10 304 7 5 172 7 9 5,766 7 3 210 14 6 1,766 13 9 126 o 2 6 11 o 689 10 8 9,043 4 2 795 15 3 319 13 7 3,3!8 o 3 178 14 8 169 19 o 1,853 2 9 9,715 13 9 47 3 8 493 16 4 2,108 3 7 320 18 10 753 4 o 596 13 11 1,018 10 9 453 18 4 214 11 8 162 5 1 272,459 17 5 1,249 12 11 3,977 9 6 193 5 6 882 o 1 768 17 6 1,534 o 11 120 3 5 8,729 o 1 363 9 10 367 5 5 174 16 4 86 11 6 295 9 8 2,465 6 1 318 2 2 2,917 11 2 52 o o 244 14 o 477 10 4 4,001 9 3 1,406 18 g 873 19 11 21 15 3 306 14 2 702 3 8 1,207 J 6 o 2,244 11 4 1 1 307 264 160 83 110,187 779 989 134 558 337 754 70 1,295 133 50 185 193 985 861 178 872 366 464 157 681 287 828 7i 626 218 928 587 216 4 15 2,524 37 66 52 23 17 40 6 9i 271 96 1,325 7 1 185 119 84 172 21,612 217 55° 53° 188 126 129 25 3,423 212 18 24 3 36 5 6 7 2 1 2,33 6 18 35 3 13 8 17 2 10 343 3i 7 4 5 15 45 8 88 2 12 27 I 497 45 563 69 32 465 253 273 5 53J 206! 941 509 114 12 5 3 3 9 64 7 39 907 43 17 7 8 47 197 28 172 6 28 13 241 81 62; 1 13 54 99 1761 3 62 6 2 55 23 41 36 in 8 34 25 56 1 7 9 9 50 219 388 17 ! • • I .. * Name chanf ;ed to Allauton, 1st December; 1895.

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Table No. 4 — continued. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the several Money Order and Savings Bank Offices in New Zealand during the Year 1895 — continued.

Money Orders. fell Savings Banks, Office. Issued. Paid. De No. Deposits. eposits. Amount. — o g Withdrawals. No. Commission. I Amount. No. Amount. < ° No. Amount. Dunedin — cont'd. Pembroke Port Chalmers Puerua Roxburgh St. Bathan's .. Seacliff South Dunedin Stirling Tapanui Waihola Waikaia Waikoikoi Waikouaiti Waipori Waitahuna Waitati Gisborne Tolaga Bay Waipiro Bay .. Greymouth Ahaura • Blackball Mine Brunnerton Jackson's Nelson Creek .. Ngahere Reefton Stillwater Totara Flat HOKITIKA Goldsborough .. Kumara Rimu Ross Stafford Invercargill Arrowtown Balfour Bluff Dipton Edendale Fairfax Fortrose Gore Half-Moon Bay Kingston Lumsden Mataura Orepuki Otautau Pukerau Queenstown Riversdale Riverton Thornbury Waikaka Waipahi Wairio Winton Woodlands Wyndham Napier .. Danevirke Hastings Herbertville .. Kaikora North Kumrroa Makaretu Makotuku Mohaka Norsewood Ongaonga Ormondville .. Porangahau Port Ahuriri .. Takapau Taradale Taupo* Te Aute Tikokino 248 854 92 662 386 213 283 177 614 82 j 496: 464 58 200 £ «.d. 20 2 9 42 8 6 1 16 o 24 8 9 13 13 6 6 10 6 13 2 6 5 18 9 19 18 o 2 18 6 17 14 o 1 12 o 14 3 3 1 17 o 6 11 6 2 12 o 176 18 3 11 3 3 16 2 3 117 18 6 14 7 6 5 9°! 24 12 6 876 8 1 3 810 59 9 3 4 11 6 5 2 9 70 5 o 606 37 6 3 3°3 17 o 6 919 176 12 9 19 9 9| 3 11 9 33 4 ° 5 16 3 5 13 9 026 13 11 6 62 8 o 3 1 6 5 15 6 10 11 o 22 13 o 16 9 6 903 2 19 9 24 1 9 14 15 o 17 17 6 409 203 4 16 6 5 18 o 18 9 6 5 9 3 12 19 o 292 4 7 52 6 o no 9 3 11 2 6 15 9 3 3 9 3 5 3 9 6 16 3 6 3 9 25 15 3 5 9 0 9 1 9 15 4 6 35 3 o 19 10 3 6 13 3 5 13 6 0 5 3 7 4 6 £ s - d - 1,235 18 3 2,756 11 7 244 14 3 2,338 11 7 1,021 11 9 32 712 22 116 55 108 323 66 £ s- d104 7 7 2,659 18 9 115 11 8 509 16 10 180 17 2 496 15 0 1,192 11 3 338 11 8 421 9 1 148 7 7 205 3 7 43 2 4 948 4 10 64 19 5 253 12 2 487 11 11 4,632 8 7 191 1 10 410 1 10 6,125 n o 198 19 10 10 8 9 940 17 11 114 18 o 112 17 o 54 o o 2,581 17 9 119 16 5 84 18 9 2,839 4 7 80 15 4 853 10 3 53 12 6 453 8 3 122 16 II 16,446 16 11 629 15 7 84 17 9 933 19 6 126 0 o 177 9 o 8 156 35 1,442 £ s - d - 235 7 0 8,790 15 6 1 103 6 549 £ s. d. 72 o 8 4,596 18 1 541 14 6 645 12 11 505 5 2 1,837 8 3 263 4 8 1,697 l6 10 131 9 1 1,231 1 o 139 17 4 618 9 7 219 2 9 io,I93 5 9 599 13 7 1,024 1 6 7,677 19 o 1,458 19 6 363 o 8 1,599 11 11 782 14 1 616 13 o 580 6 6 3,79° 6 5 302 2 9 435 13 8 4,468 6 5 332 19 10 2,309 13 11 186 8 6 1,151 o 5 603 10 6 12,141 4 10 i,353 12 1 260 6 o 2,598 2 4 552 8 9 527 13 3 7 8 10 1,432 14 6 5,396 15 11 420 6 9 600 2 11 875 10 5 1,686 8 2 1,609 4 4 821 13 9 260 2 7 1,888 3 9 1,193 10 7 i>571 14 7 388 18 o 182 15 6 421 9 1 524 1 2 1,475 5 2 456 4 7 990 13 9 19,014 18 11 4,126 18 3 6,341 15 10 698 o 1 1,069 12 1 343 16 6 501 16 4 563 2 7 362 14 2 3,583 15 5 531 8 6 902 16 1 i>037 I 4 i,979 14 3 1,561 4 4 369 13 2 562 13 o 31 10 o 614 4 4 45 13 7 83 5 35 10 23 307 94 138 651 70 275 69 163 4,501 11 o 597 4 ° 961 19 o 2,595 6 4 718 1 o 2,064 4 o 512 18 3 657 o 4 33 3 32 6 98 20 35 141 30 92 34 52 2,144 18 10 272 12 o 316 16 6 655 16 7 575 16 2 1,154 12 4 571 12 9 644 10 11 79 2,989: 22OJ 2 97j 2,303' 35l| I48 559 218 237 159 1,202 9i 169 1,505 116 904 90 392 267 3,912 497 84 816 164 150 5 428 1,633 74 183 260 626 460 268 91 590 370J 530 118 75 160 138 490 150 355 5,424 i,357 2,150 203 309 119 174 175 124 579 185 295 292 662 460 135 129 7 180 115 43 5i 14 259 16 54 118 1,124 38 65 1,825 55 2 265 27 16 15 682 23 11 11 5°5 11 126 "81 91 2,861 62 180 1,796 86 58 261 21 66 65 4 J 5 26 29 901 39 357 118 169 56 4.439 121 65 377 56 5° 2 81 2,521 12 5 802 14 o 299 4 0 33,208 15 3 511 7 2 i,937 2 3 28,810 4 9 832 11 o 489 16 iol 3,426 5 o 176 16 o 378 0 o 596 o o 4,963 7 8 239 o o 148 17 o 22,087 5 4 1,162 2 o 7,847 16 10 880 19 o 3,092 15 o 334 16 o 63,346 4 2 873 6 o 322 2 o 4,070 1 1 577 17 « 416 3 1 211 6 984 18 8 9,33! 5 10 30 14 o 147 10 o 815 12 2 3,346 3 4 1,037 ° ° 802 O 2 243 8 o 3,611 8 4 1,025 9 8 5,462 17 4 706 2 o 35 o o 724 2 o 311 8 o 3,251 o 11 323 12 o 1,912 13 o 75,932 13 3 6,578 3 3 I3,°54 7 » 562 9 1 1,082 15 3 115 4 5 133 13 o 468 3 o 273 8 o 776 14 3 230 1 o i>155 3 I 590 7 7 2,851 10 2 1,066 17 o 72 10 o 243 14 o 120 460 2 6 21 6 9 11 5 8 469 1 74 26 24 2,720 12 58 1,727 34 12 134 11 1,785 1 1 429 5 10 251 9 4 33,724 10 3 86 2 o 1,020 19 1 31,106 14 11 272 11 6 60 15 o 2,243 J 6 2 67 12 4 155 13 8 95 10 o 3,274 o 10 128 16 o 129 8 6 14,207 9 4 204 8 3 3,515 5 1 261 1 o 1,146 2 6 351 1 4 57,957 X 5 10 734 6 2 310 5 2 2,149 o 2 154 11 6 272 14 11 35 o o 299 17 10 5,838 6 4 16 o o 34 246 17 12 35 5 5 13 82 6 3 152 13 67 27 28 7 646 I? 9 59 12 7 11 277 4 I 23 1 35 27 781 20 268 13 106 28 4,618 137 20 259 43 38 3 3 46 2 I 107 4 43 3 13 3 626 18 1 24 5 5 21 16 191 15 15 58i 17 164 3° 87 49 3>735 43 26 153 27 24 2 36 344 3 5 44 107 64 3 2 23 60 45 195 3° 5 18 49 642 32 9 107 182 59 59 27 232 85 387 20 3 4 1 36 199 81 244 7 5 2,161 7 8 156 6 o 54 10 11 356 3 3 567 8 o 213 15 0 212 16 2 76 7 o 823 4 2 300 3 4 1,420 2 9 93 12 o 19 15 6 102 5 10 205 o 3 633 14 7 281 9 2 560 10 7 i7>334 i° 2 1,533 13 3 3,829 16 o 134 5 4 319 18 11 47 o 3 150 8 3 263 17 6 95 17 5 339 o 3 45 6 3 406 2 2 180 4 9 5IO 12 0 251 3 i 308 16 o 109 14 I 26 J 43 1 1 25 38 25 13 9 49 19 68 9 2 6 5 55 8 37 980 123 253 16 19 5 6 6 923 13 25 124 261 137 86 59 293 112 5" 78 3 33 38 243 45 265 6,574 480 1,400 63 104 9 22 63 29 78 77 61 62 560 112 18 14 62 17 13 15 8 5 20 9 52 5 2 5 6 16 18 982 82 140 3 6 24 69 24 112 6,003 369 742 19 46 37 0 o 509 14 6 1,663 8 3 742 13 7 359 2 11 165 18 2 1,395 17 9 496 14 5 3,659 17 11 168 4 7 48 14 4 202 7 11 415 2 1 1,763 14 3 256 18 6 1,348 8 6 86,210 2 4 5,715 2 4 8,253 ° I 143 13 11 850 14 2 145 4,448 468 1,070 38 83 16 28 72 3° 80 171 85 34 161 69 89 26' 10 10 7 13 15 49 19 2 3 4 2 1 13 2 8 6 7 6 23 35 10 86 28 44 31 80 226 5 9 395 1 10 40 16 5 615 14 4 196 19 4 551 5 o 470 1 6 721 13 o 317 2 2 54 o o 6 3 10 700 362 10 6 34 9 2 2 20 54 371 212 7 I 4 2 34 * Transferred to Auckland District 1st July, 1895.

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Table No. 4 — continued. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the several Money Order and Savings Bank Offices in New Zealand during the Year 1895 — continued.

Money Orders. Savings Banks. Office. Issued. Paid. 41 _!: On % ° No. Deposits. eposits. Amount. 3 u Withdrawals. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. Napier— contintud. Waipawa Waipukurau Wairoa Nelson.. Belgrove Brightwater Collingwood Motueka Motupiko Ngatimote Richmond Takaka The Port Upper Moutere Wakefield New Plymouth .. Inglewood Midhirst Opunake Pungarehu Stratford Waitara 979 824 630 3i«4 90 160 853 532 41 44 181 383 235 70 211 3,425 850 297J 599! 240 .2,048 552i 2,819 2I2J 46O: 22 4 | 77 316 133 166 193 2,533 7 X 3 180 146 44 594 1,004 739; 1,072: 213 1,392 88 394 312 3,153 56 285 799 112 9i 164 164 679 1,075 128 37 5,098 586 726 221 2,050 891 20 275 666 41 63 1,492 244 846 763 17 196 338 565 7,499 208 406 £ s. d. 1 43 12 9 34 12 6 1 37 2 o \ 146 1 3 > 3 7° . 672 ! 33 4 3 ! 16 19 0 : 1 11 6 \ 1 11 9 : 7 5 0 i 14 8 11 ) 13 3 3 ) 3 12 6 : 7 18 6 i 151 14 3 » 30 1 3 ' 10 3 9 )| 22 7 O >: 946 ! 78 13 3 ! 24 .19 9 I 120 8 o ! 6 11 6 ) 14 8 o \\ 766 'I 2 11 10 £ ■■ d. 3,052 12 1 2.492 2 10 2,623 2 4 10,068 14 8 193 18 7 456 3 3 3.839 3 4 i,798 4 3 108 12 o 122 14 10 524 11 7 1,254 18 7 675 12 11 147 6 3 605 19 1 10,564 5 9 3,066 2 3 993 12 4 2,103 12 4 878 4 7 7,535 8 2 1,925 14 3 9,268 3 5 702 9 8 1,428 6 9 723 3 1 244 11 10 1.066 19 6 435 3 o 436 3 2 372 14 I 8,497 19 6 2.840 13 7 487 15 5 510 8 1 130 3 1 2.067 0 o 3,550 7 1 2,065 19 4 3,43i 12 4 677 o o 5.493 15 7 219 3 3 1,543 « 5 1,047 15 4 10,949 13 4 142 3 6 918 16 11 2,523 11 8 348 11 10 247 19 3 477 10 3 601 o 10 663 244 230 3.859 29 74 116 239 3° 20 138 132 116 7 104 3,438 3 J 3 66 139 in 549 249 1,851 51 323 60 42 183 40 5° 72 2,134 100 129 63 21 266 440 557: 299 90 161! £ s. d. ; 1,812 18 II I 756 17 5 » 971 14 5 ) 15,051 13 1 ) 80 1 6 \ 236 13 7 ) 1,177 o 2 ) 1,036 15 2 ) 181 6 4 ) 76 17 3 i 684 8 3 ! 768 15 II 3 381 1 11 ' 36 15 9 [ 515 12 2 i 15,820 14 7 S i,454 7 2 > 274 o 7 ) 650 14 7 : 592 2 2 ) 2,058 16 1 ) 804 4 o : 6,509 4 2 : 366 17 7 1 i,i79 13 6 > 276 19 2 ' 143 15 4 i 708 11 11 ) 184 11 4 > 170 17 3 ■ 213 8 4 j 9,677 11 11 ) 580 18 5 > 650 6 o I 342 13 5 92 11 6 ' i,M9 5 1 )| 3,162 o 2 'I 2,116 9 o )', 1,401 5 10 1 491 13 2 935 6 4 86 17 2 : 451 7 8 327 o 10 6,652 13 7 80 3 8 , 183 14 8 920 o o ; 56 12 2 1 108 19 11 ! 229 17 3 I 468 II 9 921 IO I I,509 6 o 302 3 11 4° 5 6] 12,577 8 io{ 721 14 1 826 17 10: 182 7 o, 3,811 19 11 978 16 o 82 66 54 423 14 9 34 62 4 9 25 46 18 g 16 506 116 26 40 12 183 65 433 16 7 14 2 13 8 10 26 373 46 9 6 1 491 \ 253 5 3,271 t 106 ) 81 152 2 354 \ 33 5 29 5 201 5 225 3 119 3 27 5 188 5 3,090 5 730 3 124 3 184 2 69 i 573 5 323 3 2,906 5 74 7 40 J 5° j 16 j 68 J 77 > 47 5 no £ •■ d. 7,443 14 2 4,625 10 4 3,778 4 11 70,142 4 6 1,039 16 4 829 1 5 2,604 2 4 3,566 9 9 96 7 o 412 12 o 3,377 4 8 2,339 6 2 567 12 o 98 o o 1,942 10 o 48,519 4 o 6,633 10 4 990 1 2 2,041 1 10 901 2 11 8,252 7 7 4,278 5 9 41,005 3 6 998 6 7 348 o o 903 7 11 67 o o 516 8 10 746 15 2 153 10 o 550 12 6 46,899 10 3 1,304 16 9 271 17 oj 314 2 1 15 o 6 5,783 10 9 4,827 19 5 7,7" o 3 3,056 1 6 667 19 o 4,457 10 7 47 29 30 333 6 6 12 28 2 6 9 3j 3 7 531 70 12 16 2 79 30: 320 7 9 2 7 265 9 188 0 146 3 2,917 5 28 5 39 2 102 3 144 2 24 5 78 ?\ 90 3j 29 3 8 7 59 1 2,924 3 399 2 81 3 80 2 30 3 343 j 163 > 2,057 7 31 3 28 £ <*> d. 4,404 16 9 3,575 11 5 1,826 9 5 50,298 12 5 422 12 4 297 1 4 1,776 5 7 1,647 19 5 2 7 6 311 15 6 2,287 12 10 925 13 2 212 17 o 63 I 8 1,310 16 o 49,834 3 9 5,260 14 5 795 19 10 i,"3 o 5 270 6 10 5,520 18 7 2,354 13 10 28,817 16 10 474 13 9 266 19 7 674 3 8 23 o o 467 18 1 351 8 5 106 13 10 263 15 8 34,672 4 11 1,171 9 9 426 15 3 314 3 8 Oamaru Duntroon Hampden Herbert Kakanui Kurow Maheno Ngapara Shag Point Thames Karangahake .. Katikati Maketu Miranda Opotiki Paeroa Tauranga Te Aroha Te Puke Waihi Waiorongomai Waitekauri Whakatane Timaru Albury Fairlie Geraldine Makikihi Orari Pleasant Point.. St. Andrew Temuka Waimate Waitaki Winchester Wanganui Bull's Eltham Fordell Hawera Hunterville Kaimanuka Kaponga Manaia Mangaweka Manutahi Marton Normanby Ohingaiti Patea Raitihi Turakina Waitotara Waverley Wellington Adelaide Road Ashurst > 12 9 3 I 626 516 i 5 12 3 S 119 16 9 ! 3 1 3 3 >! 766 i 6 11 6 t 19 3 \ 23 14 o 1 49 11 9 h 30 19 3 38 3 o I 11 6 6 61 11 o 3 5 9 17 17 o 17 15 o 137 19 3 1 14 o 11 14 9 27 4 6 4 1 o 270 6 12 9 669 24 11 3 37 15 ° 2 16 o 113 244 15 o 29 9 1 29 15 6 9 2 6 97 6 o 35 5 6 1 5 o 8 12 o 25 14 9 1 1 6 2 7 3 62 9 3 10 6 o 21 52 74 i,8oi| 23, 49 234 15 29 54! 109 248' 426 55 3,468 166 4 112 93 73 63 21 00 4O 17 576 5 22 69 9 4 7 13 77 119 6 i 3.072 5 182 ) 78 3 29 t 7 ' 578 5 375 i 450 i 336 : 66 1 398 ) 117 62 > 4,006 i 35 i 93 I 496 > 38 ■ 14 55 i 5i 43° I 656 28 I 38 5.730 381 3i6 86 1,167 288 7 7i 320 4 3° 677 144 226 1,346 12 2 534 8 1 60,011 5 1 316 15 o 1,240 9 6 5,456 5 4 355 16 o 130 16 o 322 5 8 437 8 3 7,051 14 4 10,170 16 o 421 5 6 615 o o 68,224 13 6 3,653 17 10 3,618 9 11 555 14 o 16,145 17 9 3,921 1 11 80 o o 880 10 7 5,514 13 9 25 2 O 340 8 i 12,191 14 2 I,346 O 0 1,873 15 IO 5,263 2 7 19 2 O 456 17 o 1,294 14 4 4,06l 2 II 363,602 12 5 I,637 2 O 684 8 O, 8 6 5 5 276 7 4 34 32 25 19 13 13 2 12 558 10 36 2 2 1 1 25 58 1 > 29 i 30 5 26 ; 23 5 14 5 2,451 7 79 [ 40 32 \ 135 ; 168 i 219 ) 208 i 46 i 155 '■ 47 ! 19 i 3,232 IO ' 57 i 188 '■ T 7 '. 12 : 25 : 22 i 156 : 316 8 3,101 13 4 2,329 4 o 4,116 6 11 2,256 ig 10 761 13 2 2,491 3 o 903 13 o 250 14 7 52,699 12 9 84 o o 858 7 g 2,637 14 4 168 1 o 91 o o 237 15 6 303 2 3 1,722 12 7 6,496 3 8 349 2 o 403 8 11 7i,4i4 7 3 2,897 19 4 2,287 2 9 358 14 6 10,768 18 3 3,382 8 11 25 o 10 671 7 5 2,601 12 9 59 17 6 402 13 5 7,135 7 9 1,496 1 5 1,411 8 4 3,129 7 7 1,909 17 5 4,i°i 13 5 450 18 o 85 16 2 17,756 4 3 1,674 o 7 2,437 9 5 723 12 10 6,533 7 6 3,287 2 2 121 15 7 890 15 9 3,081 2 9 81 12 1 214 12 4 8,456 6 11 703 4 o 3,096 19 8 2,504 18 2 63 9 7 757 11 6 1,566 13 7 1,895 18 8 56,696 8 6 452 1 10 1,364 12 7 223 42 1,056 274 38 193 4 21 666 126 172 i 6! 787 5 10: 30 19 6 95 8 8 2,309 9 9 532 19 2 592 8 9 1,661 13 5! 7 832 52 76 19 249 70 2 19 82 1 831 37 29 4 104 24 1 15 37 25 5,390 153 1 148 27 498 133 3 52 167 4 26 363 96 97 245 35 14 5 32 12 3 o 10 6 803 23 o 9 21 2 3 1,203 15 6 8 7 9 13 7 9 119 379 77 102 211 266 13 9 • 697 13 3 895 5 II 111,453 4 10, 39 15 11 693 12 ill 4 11 147 23 59 90 7 23 55 3.4282 83 29 515 3 75 92 331 28,058 568 175 6 71 13 24 56 589 17 ii 878 10 9 1,951 18 1 382,382 o 1 456 11 4 1,240 15 11 26,5931 18 168 7 13 25 3,3742 3 26 42 40 125 26,217 73 124

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Table No. 4 — continued. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the several Money Order and Savings Bank Offices in New Zealand during the Year 1895 — continued.

Money Orders. Saving! Banks. Office. Issued. Paid. s§! < o No. Deposits. eposits. Amount. n Withdrawals. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. Wellington — continued. Campbelltown.. Carterton Castlepoint Chatham Islands Eketahuna Featherston Feilding Fowler's Foxton Greytown North Halcombe Hutt Johnsonville Kaitoke Kaiwarawara .. Levin Makuri Manukau Martinborough Masterton Mauriceville .. Ngahauranga .. Otaki Pahiatua Palmerston North Petone Porirua Rangiwahia Sanson Shannon Te Aro Te Nui Upper Hutt Wellington South Woodville Westport Cape Foulwind Capleston Charleston Denniston Granity Creek .. Longford Lyell Mokihinui Murchison Seddonville Waimangaroa .. 205 960 4i 115 1,071 637 1,833 462 57° 643 334 354 179 68 80 620 20 262 44i 2,542 306 iioj 6811 1,896 1 3,478: 573 53 5 204 279 1,867 429 190 213 1,700 2,068 £ s. d. 779 39 4 6 299 4 11 6 37 10 o 24 1 3 79 9 o 13 8 o 23 16 o 32 12 9 12 17 9 16 5 9 790 2 4 6 3 5 3 21 10 o 0 12 6 10 16 9 18 5 6 112 18 3 9 15 6 4 2 II 29 3 o 59 o 9 152 o 3 25 10 6 2 3 9 060 7 15 6 10 18 3 80 7 o 17 1 9 790 9 19 6 56 11 3 95 17 9 1 16 9 1 6 6 16 14 6 46 10 9 6 16 9 566 27 12 3 4 18 9 17 16 o 7 12 o 716 £ s. d. 712 9 9 2,803 I 5 i° 180 16 10 522 7 10 3,973 8 8 1,822 o 5 6,587 12 n 1,785 15 7 1,566 O IO 2,278 8 1 1,084 14 2 1,078 1 9 737 5 2 243 11 7 143 9 1 1,651 5 o 62 3 8 765 6 8 1,129 1 4 10,085 4 3 1,178 5 5 193 6 4 2,151 18 5 8,410 12 8 12,737 17 11 1,316 17 8 215 7 o 38 2 o 747 2 11 861 16 9 4,727 3 11 1,257 12 8 523 8 o 615 3 10 6,409 3 2 6,866 7 5 147 6 6 69 18 1 1,287 16 8 2,973 12 1 406 n 7 413 14 o 2,387 5 7 518 18 3 1,646 11 9 495 9 1 459 2 4 33 337 7 20 284 193 g8o 75 353 2g6 "4 160: 45 28 24 157 52 61! 1,241; 39| 7 339; 426 2,670 348 34 £ s. d. 120 17 1 1,273 3 11 22 17 9 150 18 8 1,565 15 11 930 7 o 3,339 13 5 350 3 6 1,181 13 1 1,067 311 381 19 8 633 16 g 165 3 10 79 13 5 g6 16 6 696 1 9 260 19 11 262 8 n 4,401 2 4 173 10 9 26 16 o 1,187 i° ° 2,125 18 II 9,227 8 2i 1,142 3 3 97 15 1 13 100 1 6 74 48 188 21 37 62 34 go 23 4 9 53 3 11 23 259 10 17 47 144 473 95 7 64 681 2 20 374 255 1,105 65 438 425 163 629 374 35 176 272 4 66 142 1,367 75 143 297 600 2,663 959 4i £ s. d. 651 14 7 6,834 8 o 59 o o 70 9 o 5,149 O I 4,348 II II 14,930 17 9 865 14 4 4,317 5 9 4,060 on 1,056 2 6 7,390 12 5 i,755 17 11 154 12 o 346 18 o 1,785 5 4 88 o o 437 1 o 1,824 7 o 13,293 14 7 815 16 o 2gg 15 o 2,658 14 9 9,221 6 o 31,815 2 4 5,707 16 11 183 16 6 8 64 3 31 17 109 1 34 42 26 36 10 2 9 2 8 160 3 8 23 85 264 41 2 33 313 6 3 256 109 525 57 245 2og 88 179 122 6 39 121 1 38 70 853 75 22 161 422 1,651 337 8 £ s. d. 326 19 2 5,280 5 5 191 15 3 88 10 o 3,297 9 1 1,526 5 1 8,022 6 11 773 11 7 3,024 4 4 2,464 18 3 1,081 2 7 2,660 16 5 i,004 2 5 704 130 5 o 1,210 3 3 500 277 2 4 730 7 1 io,394 7 8 661 1 1 87 1 1 1,562 1 o 7,634 o 11 26,207 4 5 3,494 8 11 56 13 3 70 90 107 57 9i 84 578 1,264 5 7 61 78 26 256 14 1 404 ° 3 472 8 7 233 14 2 367 4 o 236 o 5 2,093 18 4 4,427 o 6 9 7 6 31 6 o 275 14 Hi 292 10 II 149 5 1 106 18 11 585 15 8 95 8 o 179 1 10 63 6 6 118 5 1 15 17 356 19 23 49 117 195 1 136 75 4,065 109 138 399 529 1,200 16 2,290 13 2 647 2 2 14,757 19 6 1,696 6 o 1,942 12 o i,353 3 6 7,974 18 o 19,815 n 2 108 17 o 107 8 o 4,057 9 10 3,201 7 3 118 1 7 301 IO o 1,521 2 O 242 IO O 295 7 6 456 16 o 264 2 2 9 8 49 12 9 14 82 236 47 53 288 59 91 59 343 1,195 1 6 964 14 11 718 1 2 1,947 1 9 1,087 9 IO 1,463 10 11 445 11 9 6,442 5 o 18,601 11 o 1200 94 15 o 366 17 2 1,942 7 1 416 8 2 213 8 6 1,386 13 5 70 1 2 259 9 3 156 16 6 27 ig 2 50 30 436 1,054 171 112 687 123 400! 187; 169I 22 29 44 6 3 21 3 10 12 7 II 171 528 43 9 148 13 62 79 45 1 4 25 2 2 22 44 170 21 n 63 13 13 16 119 23 26 18 28 2 3 1 3 10 UMMARY. Postal District OF — Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth ... Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 45,249 5,024 27,224 28,g53 3,506 5,437 3,274 12,627 15,392 5,914 8,011 4,600 9,424 6,743 15,098 4i,534 5,487 2,294 9 3 214 o o 1,292 13 o 1,245 1 9 204 3 g 256 o g 142 14 3 501 8 3 748 12 1 255 10 1 327 3 9 180 11 4 420 10 6 264 3 6 678 9 9 2,168 11 8 239 10 o 154,087 15 8 15,971 12 8 89,771 17 o 92,804 15 11 11,817 o 10 17,607 7 6 9,051 19 7 39,636 11 7 52,364 12 5 19,795 19 4 27,066 19 8 14,677 14 6 32,563 4 o 22,757 I2 7 55,846 17 4 139,110 I o 17,672 13 4 41,583 2,272 24,259 30,106 1,227 2,949 1,216 7,5io 7,988 4,864 4,865 2,672 4,407 3,056 7,i65 36,179 1,677 161,156 7 9 8,792 4 6 88,109 3 10 109,735 7 2 5,233 12 3 10,344 5 5 4,403 7 10 26,881 18 4 29,614 3 6 20,227 1 1 21,654 19 2 9,753 18 7 21,465 6 6 11,473 18 6 27,141 3 2 147,212 12 2 6,334 o 11 4,353 528 4,915 4,020 550 424 294 i,28g 1,742 669 948 529 945 914 1,822 -5,988 331 26,325 3,657 43,240 33,787 3,103 2,823 1,640 8,440 io,g46 4,786 5,093 3,388 5,75o 5,940 10,463 45,687 2,325 434,945 12 o 47,741 14 4 538,023 15 5 393,158 10 7 35,657 4 8 40,060 18 3 35,405 14 2 103,710 11 2 121,496 8 2 87,015 6 2 71,615 13 7 45,289 4 6 77,190 8 4 86,529 16 8 129,466 18 2 516,708 17 4 30,490 2 6 2,794,506 16, 0 2,936 436 3,370 3,102 481 361 173 95i 1,37° 415 740 362 437 695 1,297 4,574 301 21,921 2,795 31,503 24,425 2,790 2,176 928 5,250 8,196 3,5i9 4,020 2,239 3,599 4,068 7,609 33,303 1,563 367,813 18 9 44,792 18 1 457,095 18 o 322,274 3 3 34,831 11 4 37,534 18 11 19,685 7 6 81,001 15 7 114,944 4 1 59,556 14 9 65,149 17 8 31,446 9 10 52,796 1 '5 66,051 0 .9 111,462 14 9 479,347 5 6 23,548 6 5 2.369333 6 7 Totals 243497 JII433 1.3 8 812,604 14 H 183995 709,533 10 8 30,261 217393 22,001 159904

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No. 5. POST OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.— GENERAL STATEMENT. Table showing the Business of the Post Office Savings-Banks in New Zealand Year by Year, from the Date they were established, in February, 1867, to the 31st December, 1895.

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Postal Districts. Number of Post ' Office Numberof Savings- Deposits Banks received Open at during the the Close Year. of the Year. Total Ainount of Deposits received during the Year. Average Amount of each Deposit received during the Year. Number of Withdrawals during the Year. Average Total Amount of A™""' of Withdrawals withdraws, during the Year. duHng the Year. Excess of Deposits: over Withdrawals during the Year. Excess of Withdrawals over Deposits during the Year. Cost of Management during the Year. Average Cost of each Transaction, Deposit or WithI <lra\vai. Interest for the Year. Number of Accounts Opened during the Year. Number of Accounts Closed during the Year. Number of Accounts remaining Open at Close of the Year. Total Amount standing to the Credit of all open Accounts, inclusive of Interest to the Close of the Year. Average Amount standing to the Credit of each open Account at Close of the Year. Auckland Blenheim Christchurcli Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier ... Nelson ... New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 79 8 42 41 3 6 26 21 26,325 3,657 43,24° 33,787 3,i°3 2,823 1,640 8,440 10,946 4,786 5,O93 3.388 5,75° 5,94O 10,463 45,687 2,325 434,945 12 0 47,741 14 4 538,023 15 5 393,158 10 7 35,657 4 8! 40,060 18 3 35,405 H 2 103,710 II 2 121,496 8 2 87,015 6 2 7I.6l5 13 7 45,289 4 6 77,190 8 4 86,529 16 8 129,466 18 2 516,708 17 4 30,490 2 61 1610 5 21,921 "3 ' 1 2 ,795 12 8 10 31,503 11 12 9 24,425 11 9 10 2,790 14 3 10 2,176 21 1 1 9 928 12 5 9 5> 2 5° 11 20 8,196 18 3 7 3,5' 9 14 1 3 4,020 '3 7 4 2 > 2 39 '3 8 6 3,599 14 11 4 4,068 12 76 7,609 11 62 33,303 13 2 3 '.563 £ s. d. 367,813 18 9 44,792 18 1 457.O9S l8 ° 322,274 3 3 34,831 11 4 37,534 '8 11 19,685 7 6 81,001 15 7 114,944 4 1 59,55 6 '4 9 65,149 17 8 31,446 9 10 S 2 >796 1 5 66,051 o 9 111,462 14 9 479.347 5 6 23.548 6 5 £ s. d. 16 15 7 16 o 6 14 10 2 '3 3 11 1298 17 5 o 2' 4 3 15 8 7 1406 16 18 6 1642 14 011 14 13 5 16 4 9 14 13 o 14 7 10 '5 14 £ s. d. 67,131 '3 3 2,948 16 3 80,927 17 5 70,884 7 4 825 13 4 2 >5 2 5 19 4 15,720 6 8 22,708 15 7 6,552 4 1 27,458 11 5 6,465 15 11 13,842 14 8 24,394 6 11 20,478 15 11 ■8,004 3 5 37,361 11 10 6,941 16 1 £ s. d.. £ s. d. £ s. d. 19,022 13 o 2,391 14 9 25,588 19 1 20,481 18 1 1,234 6 11 2,709 2 1 ',959 '3 7 5,474 6 7 5,93O 9 3 4, 2 93 1 5 2,817 3 7 2,597 15 9 3,360 3 9 4.O4S 7 o 5,277 15 4 20,528 6 11 ',777 2 5 4,353 528 4.915 4,020 55° 424 294 1,289 1,742 669 948 529 945 9'4 1,822 5,988 331 2,936 436 3,37O 3,102 48, 36. 173 951 1,37° 4'5 740 362 437 695 1,297 4,574 301 £ s. d. 17,466 , 574,978 9 6 2,962 69,571 11 8 27,576 766,439 6 7 20,440 614,000 16 4 1,668 35,232 4 o 2,429 79,269 6 o 1,264 , 64,485 16 1 5,688 j 165,122 19 2 6,650 174,423 1 1 4,283 133,092 4 8 3,487 82,927 8 8 2,368 ; 79,482 16 10 4,009 109,1 11 95 4,052 121,682 19 9 6,704 ; '59,27 1 11 6 25,065 614,406 9 7 1,572 52,044 9 5, £ s. d. 32 18 5 23 9 9 27 15 10 30 o 9 2125 32 12 8 '51 o 4 29 o 7 26 4 7 31 1 6 23 '5 8 33 11 4 27 4 4 30 o 7 23 ! 5 2 24 10 3 33 2 2 12 7 9 '3 1 2 19 37 12 Totals for Colon}' in 1895 ... 1894 ... „ „ 1893 ■■ 1892 ... „ „ 1891 ... „ „ 1890... ■ 889 ... „ „ 1888 ... j, ,, 1887 ... „ „ 1886 ... .885 ... 1884 ... 1883 ... ,, „ 1882 ... „ „ 1881 ... „ „ 1880 ... '879 - 1878 ... 1877.1876 ... .875 -. 1874 ... '873 ■•■ „ ,, 1872 ... .87' ... „ ., 1870 ... „ 1869 ... 1868 ... Totals for Colony from 1st Feb. to 31st Dec, 1867 357 348 327 3>8 3" 296 294 290 283 271 256 243 222 207 190 178 ■65 '47 >3» 124 119 103 97 92 81 70 59 55 46 2 17,393 204,545 202,276 186,945 176,971 162,938 I53,92O 145,355 136,197 137,989 '31,373 129,279 127,609 129,952 125,855 81,660 71,865 69,908 60,9 5 3 57,295 56,129 52,627 39.223 3 1,68 1 24,642 20,489 17,133 13.014 6,977 2,794,506 16 o 2,252,862 6 II 2,386,089 IO 7 1,878,270 6 4 1,842,987 15 2 1.658,543 3 5 1,515,281 II 3 '.544,747 7 11 1,312,151 1 5 1,248,405 6 11 1,341,001 3 2 1,227,909 11 4 M78,474 4. I 1,325.8s 2 2 11 1,189,012 2 7 864,441 18 10 812,399 11 11 762,084 12 o 681,294 13 2 664,134 12 6 657, 6 S3 4 o 699,249 14 3 580,542 5 5 430,877 o o 312,338 18 4 264,328 5 7 240,898 5 9 194,535 " 6 96,372 7 10 1217 1 II 03 II 15 II 10 Oil 10 8 3 10 3 6 9 16 10 10 12 6 9 12 8 9 on 10 4 1 9 9 11 948 10 40 9 811 10 11 9 11 6 1 10 18 o 11 36 11 11 9 11 14 4 13 5 8 14 16 2 13 12 o 1213 6 12 18 o 1 59,9°4 15 2 ,'36 136,739 120,628 111,603 106,868 99,>85 96,204 89,962 89,182 84,832 80,800 78,405 69,308 60,137 57,446 54,698 42,746 39,363 39,486 36,977 29,778 21,268 I7» 2 54 14,773 ii,934 9,292 6,365 1,919 2 ,369. 333 6 7 2,268,624 8 4 2,122,521 16 8 1,821,348 18 1 1,693,515 9 3 ',5oo,437 9 5 ',45 7.o8 1 5 o 1,387,471 1 10 1,182,409 7 6 1,336,287 6 4 1,264,305 8 3 i,i95,93i o 11 1,295,719 18 3 1,142,599 o I 902,195 i 8 780,504 13 4 876,180 19 3 742,053 14 3 667,023 7 5 696,281 7 4 729.759 '7 9 620,155 8 9 425,908 3 5 313,176 7 11 261,347 16 3 209,509 13 2 180,518 4 1 107,094 17 3 26,415 18 9 14 16 4 14 18 3 15 l0 5 1520 15 3 5 14 o 9 14 '3 9 14 8 5 13 2 10 14 19 8 14 18 o 14 16 o 16 10 6 16 9 8 15 o 1 13 " 8 16 o 4 17 7 2 16 18 10 17 12 8 19 14 8 20 16 5 20 o 5 1830 17 13 9 17 11 1 19 8 7 16 16 6 4 2 5,'73 9 5 263,567 13 11 56,921 8 3 149,472 5 11 158,105 14 o 58,200 6 3 157,276 6 1 129,741 13 11 76,695 14 11 31,978 10 5 183,253 2 10 286,817 o 11 83,937 5 6 15,762 1 5 87,881 19 5 117,245 14 2 7,000 6,500 6,500 5,500 5,000 5,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 4,000 3,5oo 3,500 3,ooo 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,250 1,800 1,556 i,35i 1,264 1,186 789 822 0 4'45 o 4'37 o 4'6o o 4-29 o 4" 16 o 4'45 o 379 0 3'97 o 4-24 o 4-23 o 4-44 ° 4\57 o 466 o 4'82 o 4-52 o 6 04 o 569 o 5'33 o 5'9 8 O 6'2O o 6'44 o 6-55 o 7-14 o 7'63 o 8-23 o 9-36 o io'77 0 977 1 io"i8 129,489 19 6 114,643 4 11 114,760 1 1 111,301 13 1 104,098 17 o 92,319 o 6 84,809 17 1 78,080 6 o 67,363 '5 3 65,825 9 6 62,228 3 11 57,38i 13 7 56,046 17 3 54,909 13 11 42,204 19 o 32,822 12 4 3i>7i5 18 2 31,664 12 9 29,193 14 6 28,762 4 7 28,565 3 5 26,935 6 8 20,106 16 10 '4.7>t ° 5 11,291 10 10 9,242 3 11 7,412 8 o 4,880 7 3 1,241 5 o 30,261 28,669 29,755 26,232 2 5,'3' 23,719 21,778 2 1,307 20,368 21,671 20,661 20,228 20,386 2 5-°59 16,137 15,401 i3,o o 5 ii, 2 35 ii,255 11,273 10,346 7,382 6,205 4,6 15 4.304 3,8.39 3,282 2,520 22,co 1 2I.93O '9,599 18,171 17,872 17,256 15,521 i6,543 I5,5i5 i6,757 16,421 '6,447 '5,967 14,505 12,718 12,217 12,786 9,634 8,591 9,472 8,681 5,736 3,816 3,188 2,383 2,277 1,801 1,186 364 137,683 129,423 122,684 112,528 104,467 97,208 9O,745 84,488 79,724 74,871 69.957 61,936 57,5'7 51,008 38,667 34,747 32,132 28,761 26, 117 24,334 21,742 17.132 I3,5 66 10,549 8,317 6,290 4, 2 5 2 2,156 3,895,543 o 3 3,340,879 II 4 3,241,998 7 10 2,863,670 12IO 2 ,695, 447 11 6 2,441,876 8 7 2,191,451 14 1 2,048,441 10 9 1,813,084 18 8 ',6i5,979 9 6 ',638,035 19 5 1,499,112 o 7 1 >4O9,75 1 16 7 ',47o,950 13 6 1,232,787 16 9 903,765 16 10 787,005 19 o 819,071 8 2 767,375 17 8 723,910 17 5 727,295 7 8 770,836 18 o 664,807 5 10 490,066 7 o 357,654 14 6 295,372 1 7 2 3i,3n 5 3 163,518 15 7 7i,i97 14 1 28 5 10 35 "6 3 26 S 6 25 9 o 25 16 o 25 2 4 24 211 24 4 10 22 14 10 21 11 8 23 8 4 2216 3 22 15 2 25 11 5 2 4 3 4 23 7 6 22 12 11 2 5 9 9 26 13 7 27 14 4 29 17 9 35 9 o 38 16 1 36 2 5 33 18 1 35 10 3 36 15 5 38 9 1 33 o 5 63,781 7 4 20,030 17 9 14,271 5 9 32,146 14 10 72,106 13 9 79,094 5 6 154,634 2 o 117,700 12 1 50,991 2 1 54,818 12 5 60,380 1 8 87,440 14 3 69,956 9 1 14 1 2 14 18 11 13 16 3 '3 15 3 ...

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No. 6. Balance-sheet of the New Zealand Post Office Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1895.

Balances on 1st January, 1895. Transactions. Balances on 31st December, 1895. Cr. Dr. Cr. Dr. Cγ. Dr. Money Order Accounts :— Money orders (General) United Kingdom, &c. United States of America Canada Cape Colony Ceylon Hongkong India Now South Wales Queensland South Australia Straits Settlements Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Commission Savings-Bank Accounts :— Deposits and withdrawals Transfers Telegraph Accounts: — Receipts New South Wales New Zealand & Australian Cable Postal Revenue Accounts :— Stamps Postal Guides Private box and bag rents Miscellaneous receipts Money-order commission Total revenue General Accounts :— Post Office Account Postmasters and Telegraphists Investments Accrued interest on investments Postal notes Maintenance of private wires.. Registration of code addresses Telephone exchanges Foreign postage Miscellaneous expenses General Post Office Pine Fund Cable Subsidy Account Foe Other Departments— Alcoholic Liquors Act Advances to settlers Clerks of Court County Clerks Customs duty (parcels) (H.M.C.) Factories Act Game licenses Goldfields revenue Government Insurance Government Printer.. Government Audit Harbourmasters Hospital and charitable aid .. Income-tax.. Industrial schools Land-tax Licensing Act Live-stock .. Lunacy Machinery Miners' Guides Mining Act New Zealand consols Official Assignee Oyster licenses Probation Officers Public baths Public Trust Railways Registration of births, &c. Rents Totalisator-tax Marine Department Receiver-General's Deposit A/c. Property-tax Profit and loss £ s. d. 20,015 *6 o 7.526 15 8 45 2 7 143 15 10 1,059 9 6 24 14 6 1,200 15 2 3i340.879 11 4 829 2 2 1,612 13 3 490 6 2 108,190 1 026 237 5 i°4 4 I >39° 9 3 7.093 o 9 £ s. d. 451 4 1 419 2 5 142 8 11 2 18 3 2,103 4 I 435 13 6 93 5 8 310 2 o 368 7 3 4,374 16 8J 908 1 3 113,176 16 4 210,472 8 2 3,218,452 7 8 28,071 17 11 4.947 1 6 £ . d. 888,398 11 7 73,82i 5 5 5,866 7 1 1,240 15 2 505 1 2 175 12 3 741 7 1 1.4*6 5 7 29,377 14 10 33.478 15 1 2,385 o o 10 15 9 3,668 12 3 26,711 o 4 3.977 3 9 1,213 12 o 2,923,996 15 6 153,268 3 1 155,266 16 4 28,302 10 9 7.319 16 8 326,645 14 oj 339 9 6 5,089 o o 1.354 3 6i 11.433 13 8 222,776 12 9 2,458,917 6 10 5,164,447 8 3J 532,404 o o 28,071 17 11 151.133 2 6 1,166 4 7 310 10 o 25,488 6 4 8,953 12 8 400,588 4 11 600 2,430 2 10 £ s. d. 887,494 18 2 75,845 19 6 5.445 19 9 774 17 8 923 15 4 61 4 5 423 12 4 766 11 8 24,817 19 9 32,408 7 9 1,698 4 o 14 1 3 3.241 5 1 25,406 1 2 5,412 8 8 1,256 17 2 2,369.333 6 7 153.224 9 9 150,716 15 o^ 27,638 16 1 7.151 3 7 312,950 9 10 336 5 o 5,089 o o 1,402 13 7 11,433 13 8 219,710 17 9 2,430,005 8 2 5.197.378 4 2J 1,114,200 o o 33. 6 65 8 4 122,094 X 8 11 1,166 4 7 310 10 o 25,488 6 4 11,137 r 3 2 426,891 8 2 6 10 o 2,430 2 10 £ s. d. 20,919 9 5 5.502 1 7 46 15 1 159 10 5 461 10 7 646 15 8 2,456 11 o 2,129 J 6 10 251 2 6 2190 334 I 6 2,505 14 4 3.895.543 ° 3 872 15 6 175 4 7 2,276 7 11 658 19 3 121,885 5 6 3 7° 188 15 10 2,157 J 3 9 70,428 12 10 4,909 o 3 o 10 o £ s. d. 30 16 9 561 3 1 1,745 6 11 411 12 5 84,264, 17 8 243.403 4 I 3,800,248 7 8 33,665 8 4 31,250 4 9 100 87 13 6 210 314,288 9 10 4 9 3 198 2 8 5,917 12 9i 1,105 14 H 25O 1,408 o o 308,746 5 7 4 9 3 198 2 8 5.953 12 10 1,003 3 2 250 1,408 o o 2 10 5,629 17 9 624 7 6J 588 7 6 102 11 9 030 i>723 5 3 63 11 9 26,808 7 8 313 4 4 6 6 8 42 4 7 9 0 10 55.634 8 7 18 o o 204,468 19 11 27,231 10 6 284 o 9 1 6 8 42 4 7 9 o 10 56,229 3 4 900 204,368 15 9 030 1.3°o 2 5 92 15 4 500 652 10 9 57 16 ° 900 319 13 7 219 9 5 210 10 o o 10 6 2,983 0 o 1,000 o o o 12 6 13,328 15 o II O O 3.947 2 6 1 5 6 1,552 17 o 8,165 o o 13,328 15 o 9 10 o 3,860 12 6 1 2 6 1,288 17 o 9,165 o o 1 10 o 297 o o o 13 6 3,247 o o o 12 6 •• 25 5 6 4,165 3 10 155 19 6 15 o o •• . I 10 O 1 lo o 204 4 6 157.855 16 o 7,385 11 11 1,761 3 o 163 10 8 4 18 6 423 o o 300 o 11 6 185.559 10 1 I 10 O I IO O 209 7 8 160,113 2 2 6,541 7 11 1,769 17 6 176 18 2 4 18 6 423 o o 20 2 4 1,907 17 8 844 4 o 147 5 o 1 12 6 o 11 6 181,153 !5 8 300 42,062 10 10 46,468 5 3 I Totals 3,584,729 15 15 Si 14,673,295 6 3 14,673,295 6 3 4.I95.58I 1 8 4.195,581 I 8

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No. 7. Securities, &c., standing in the Name of the Postmaster-General on Account of the PostOffice Savings-Bank Fund on the 31st December, 1895.

Description of Securities, &c. Nominal Value. Value at Cost Price. Accrued Interest on 31st December, 1895. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. i. Consolidated Loan 1867 Debentures, 4 per cent. 13,000 0 0 12,480 0 0 109 13 11 " Consolidated Stock Act 1884 " Debentures, 4J per cent. 1,064,384 0 0 1,064,384 0 0 4,330 8 9 " Consolidated Stock Act 1884 " Debentures, 4 per cent. 75,900 0 0 75,900 0 0 274 9 9 Defence Loan 1870 Debentures, 4 per cent. 75,000 0 0 72,000 0 0 632 17 6 Defence Loan 1870 Debentures, 4f per cent. 8,100 0 0 8,100 0 0 District Railways Purchasing Act Debentures, 4 per cent. 42,000 0 0 36,076 17 8 418 17 0 District Railways Purchasing Act Scrip, 4 per cent. 34,100 0 0 34,100 0 0 340 1 3 General Purposes Loan 1873 Debentures, 4 per cent. 5,200 0 0 4,342 0 0 43 17 7 " Government Loans to Local Bodies Act 1886 " Debentures, 249,800 0 0 249,800 0 0 3,726 9 5 4J per cent. 159,000 0 0 159,000 0 0 1,992 4 3 " Government Loans to Local Bodies Act 1886 " Debentures, 4 per cent. Greymouth Harbour Board Debentures, 5 per cent. 100,000 0 0 100,000 0 0 2,488 14 0 Hamilton Borough Debentures, 5J per cent. 3,000 0 0 3,000 0 0 68 14 3 Hokitika Harbour Board Debentures, 5 per cent. 10,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 *568 9 10 "Immigration and Public Works Loan Act 1870" Debentures, 4 per cent. 174,200 0 0 167,272 0 0 1,469 19 2 " Immigration and Public Works Loan Act 1870 " Debentures, 20,900 0 0 20,527 10 0 198 8 2 4J per cent. 400,000 0 0 400,000 0 0 1,340 1 0 Imperial Guaranteed Immigration and Public Works Loan 1870 Debentures, 4 per cent. Land for Settlements Acts, 1892 and 1894, Debentures, 4 per cent. 129,100 0 0 129,100 0 0 842 15 0 " Land for Settlements Act 1892 " Debentures, 4J per cent. .. 53,966 0 0 53,966 0 0 405 17 0 " Lands Improvement and Native Lands Acquisition Act 1894 " Debentures, 4 per cent. 264,000 0 0 264,000 0 0 2,353 15 0 " Native Land Purchases Act 1892 " Debentures, 4J per cent. .. 125,000 0 0 125,000 0 0 940 1 4 North Rakaia River Board Debentures, 5 per cent. 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 41 12 10 Oamaru Borough Consolidated Loan 1893 Debentures, 5 per cent. 13,800 0 0 13,800 0 0 345 0 0 Oamaru Harbour Bonds, 5J per cent. 32,000 0 0 32,000 0 0 737 15 1 Oamaru Harbour Advances 1887, 5 per cent. 30,000 0 0 30,000 0 0 628 15 4 Patea Harbour Board Debentures, 4£ per cent. 10,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 225 0 0 Thames Borough Debentures, 6 per cent. 6,500 0 0 6,500 0 0 190 3 10 Thames Harbour Board Debentures, 5 per cent. 10,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 250 0 0 Treasury Bills, 4 per cent.f 367,700 0 0 367,700 0 0 Westport Harbour Board Debentures, 5 per cent. 339,200 0 0 339,200 0 0 8,349 2 1 Accrued Interest on Post Office Account 352 5 0 Totals 3,800,248 7 8 33,665 8 4 3,817,850 0 0 * Includes interest due, 11th Ma; ■, £250; and 11th November, £250. t Eeduced to 3| per cent, from 1st January, 1896.

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Table No. 8. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS. Balance-sheet for the Year ended 31st December, 1895.

Table No. 9. Return showing the Total Number of Post-Office Savings-Bank Accounts open, on the 31st December, 1895, with Classified Balances, and the Number open at the end of 1894.

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Dr. £ s. d. Balance to credit of depositors, 1st January, 1895 .. .. .. 3,340,879 11 4 Deposits during the year .. .. 2,794,506 16 0 Interest credited depositors .. .. 129,489 19 6 Cr. £ s. d. Withdrawals during the year .. 2,369,333 6 7 Balance to credit of depositors, 31st December, 1895 .. .. .. 3,895,543 0 3 £6,264,876 6 10 £6,264,876 6 10 Dr. Liabilities md Assets. Cr. £ s. d. £ s. d. Securities (vide Table No. 7).. .. 3,800,248 7 8 Gash in Post Office Account on 31st December, 1895 .. .. .. 95,294 12 7 Balance to credit of depositors, 31st December, 1895 .. .. .. 3,895,543 0 3 £3,895,543 0 3 £3,895,543 0 3 Dr. Profit a', <,d Loss. Cr. £ s. d. Balance forward, 1st January, 1895 .. 42,062 10 10 Interest received .. £151,389 4 9 Interest accrued on 31st December, 1895 .. 33,665 8 4 £ s. d. Interest credited to depositors, 1895 .. 129,489 19 6 1894 accrued interest written ofi .. 28,07117 11 Paid Public Account, for expenses of management .. .. .. 7,000 0 0 Savings-bank profits carried to revenue .. 16,500 0 0 Balance to next account .. .. 46,468 5 3 185,054 13 1 Net profit on sale of £50,000 inscribed stock .. .. .. .. 412 18 9 £227,530 2 8 £227,530 2 8

Table No. 8. POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS. Balance-sheet for the Year ended 31st December, 1895. Dr. £ s. d. Balance to credit of depositors, 1st January, 1895 .. .. .. 3,340,879 11 4 Deposits during the year .. .. 2,794,506 16 0 Interest credited depositors .. .. 129,489 19 6 Cr. £ s. d. Withdrawals during the year .. 2,369,333 6 7 Balance to credit of depositors, 31st December, 1895 .. .. .. 3,895,543 0 3 £6,264,876 6 10 £6,264,876 6 10 Dr. Liabilities vnd Assets. Cr. £ s. d. Balance to credit of depositors, 31st December, 1895 .. .. .. 3,895,543 0 3 £ s. d. Securities (vide Table No. 7).. .. 3,800,248 7 8 Gash in Post Office Account on 31st December, 1895 .. .. .. 95,294 12 7 £3,895,543 0 3 £3,895,543 0 3 Dr. Profit a: >,d Loss. Cr. £ s. d. Balance forward, 1st January, 1895 .. 42,062 10 10 Interest received .. £151,389 4 9 Interest accrued on 31st December, 1895 .. 33,665 8 4 £ s. d. Interest credited to depositors, 1895 .. 129,489 19 6 1894 accrued interest written off .. 28,071 17 11 Paid Public Account, for expenses of management .. .. .. 7,000 0 0 Savings-bank profits carried to revenue .. 16,500 0 0 Balance to next account .. .. 46,468 5 3 185,054 13 1 Net profit on sale of £50,000 inscribed stock .. .. .. .. 412 18 9 £227,530 2 8 £227,530 2 8 Eetuen showing thi December, 1895, Table No. 9. Total Number - with Classified I of Post-Office Savings-Ban Balances, and the Number nk Accou - open at ants ope] t the em on of the 31st 894. Postal District. Not exceeding £20. Exceeding £20 and up to £50. Exceeding £50 and up to £100. Exceeding £100 and up to £200.; Exceeding £200 and up to £300. Exceeding £300 and up to £400. Exceeding £400 and up to £500. t3 § M so H.S Total. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch .. Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth.. Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 12,505 2,351 19,799 14,866 1,290 1,742 770 4,006 4,953 3,101 2,015 1,630 3,019 2,904 5,172 19,488 1,126 1,847 249 2,851 2,254 181 236 167 717 704 447 412 292 410 456 694 2,338 162 1,221 146 1,775 1,404 105 192 103 455 464 295 226 185 237 304 370 1,400 100 1,151 138 2,280 1,201 61 156 115 349 i 334 267 154 175 203 248 305 1,155 ; 107 462 43 501 441 18 63 70 106 130 108 52 57 88 97 94 396 46 122 20 176 118 5 21 13 27 39 29 12 15 22 12 24 142 13 89 7 109 81 5 10 10 18 11 20 11 8 11 12 28 84 6 69 8 85 75 3 9 16 10 15 16 5 6 19 19 17 62 6 17,466 2,962 27,576 20,440 1,668 2,429 1,264 5,688 6,650 4,283 3,487 2,368 4,009 4,052 6,704 25,065 1,572 Totals, 1895 101,337 14,417 8,988 8,399 2,772 810 520 440 137,683 129,423 Totals 1894 95,497 14,251 9,537 6,680 2,131 669 371 287

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Table No. 10.-SAN FRANCISCO MAIL-SERVICE. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the under-mentioned Places by the San Francisco Mail-service.

FROM LONDON VIA SAN FRANCISCO. Auckland. Wellington. Dunedin. Sydney. ELBOURNE. Date of Despatch from London, Date of Arrival in Auckland. No. Date of of Despatch from Days. London. Date of Arrival in Wellington. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London, Date of Arrival in Dunedin. No. of Days. 'Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Sydney. 1895. March 5 April 3 April 30 May '27 June 24 July 21 August 19 September 16 October 15 November 1 1 December 9 1896. January 8 February 5 No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Melbourne. No. of Days. 1895. January 26 February 23 March 23 April 20 May 18 J une 15 July *3 August 10 September 7 October 5 November 2 .8 9s . March l March 29 April 26 May 2 2 June 19 July 17 August 14 September 11 October 10 November 6 December 4 1896. January 3 January 31 j 1895. 34 j January 26 34 I February 23 34 I March 23 32 I April 20 32 I May 18 32 j June 15 32 July '3 32 August 10 33 September 7 32 October 5 32 i November 2 .895. March 3 March 3 1 April 28 May 24 June 21 July 19 August 16 September 13 October 12 November 8 December 6 1896. January 5 February 2 36 36 36 34 34 34 34 34 35 34 34 1895. January 26 February 23 March 23 April 20 May 18 June 15 July 13 August 10 1 September 7 \ October 5 I November 2 March 4 April 1 April 29 May 26 June 22 July 2 1 August 17 September 14 October 14 November 9 December 7 1896. January 6 February 3 37 . 37 37 36 35 36 35 35 37 35 35 1895. January 26 February 23 March 23 April 20 May 18 June 15 July 13 August 10 September 7 October 5 November 2 38 39 38 37 37 36 37 37 38 37 37 1895January 26 February 23 March 23 April 20 May 18 June 15 July -3 August 10 September 7 October 5 November 2 1895. March 6 April 4 May 1 May 28 June 25 July 23 August 20 September 17 October 16 November 12 December 10 1896. January 9 February 6 39 40 39 38 38 38 38 38 39 38 38 November 30 December 28 34 I November 30 34 i December 28 36 36 1 ■ November 30 ; December 28 37 37 November 30 December 28 39 39 November 30 December 28 40 40 Maximum Minimum Average ... 34 j 32 32-8S 36 34 I 34-85 I 37 ! 35 39 36 37-62 40 38 38-69 TO LONDON VIA SAN FRANCISCO. ELBOURNE. Sydney. Dunedin. "ELLINGTON. Auckland. Date of Despatch from Melbourne. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Sydney. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Dunedin, Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Wellington. 1895. January 24 February 2 i March 2 1 April 18 May 16 June 13 July 1 1 August 8 September 5 October 3 October 3 1 Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Auckland. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. .895. January February March April May June July August August September October »9 16 16 •3 I ! 8 6 3 28 26 .895. March 1 March 29 April 25 May 24 June 22 July 18 August 14 September 11 October 9 November 6 December 6 1896. January 1 January 30 44' 40 41 42 40 39 39 39 39 4> 1895. January 21 February 18 March 18 April 15 May 13 June 10 July 8 August 5 September 2 September 30 October 28 1895. March 1 March 29 April 25 May 24 June 22 July 18 August 14 September 1 1 October 9 November 6 December 6 1896. January 1 January 30 39 39 38 39 40 38 37 37 37 37 39 1895. January 23 February 20 March 20 April 17 May 15 June 12 August 7 September 4 October 2 October 30 .895. March i March 29 April 25 May 24 June 22 July 18 August 14 September 11 October 9 November 6 December 6 1896. January 1 January 30 37 37 36 37 38 36 35 35 35 35 37 1895. March 1 March 29 April 25 May 24 June 2 2 July 18 August 14 September 11 October 9 November 6 December 6 1896. January i January 30 36 36 35 36 37 35 34 34 34 34 36 1895. January 26 February 23 March 23 April 20 May 18 June 15 July *3 August 10 September 7 October 5 November 2 i8 9S . March i March 29 April 2 5 May 24 June 22 July 18 August 14 September 1 r October 9 November 6 December 6 1896. January 1 January 30 34 34 33 34 35 33 32 32 32 32 34 November December 21 39 40 November 25 December 23 37 38 November 27 December 25 35 36 November 28 December 26 34 35 November 30 December 28 32 33 Maximum Minimum Average ■ •■ ! 42 I ■•■ j 39 ! ... I 40-08 1 40 37 38-08 35 36-08 37 34 35-°8 35 32

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Table No. 11.-PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL MAIL-SERVICE. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the under-mentioned Places by the Packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Lines.

FROM LONDON via BRINDISI (P. AND O. PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Bluff. Christchurch. ILLINGTON. UCKLAND. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Melbourne. I No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Sydney. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival at Bluff. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Christchurch. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from I London. Date of Arrival in Wellington. No. of Days. i Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Auckland. No. of Days. . : ! ! i ■8951895. Feb. 13 Feb. 28 March 12 March 26 April 11 April 23 May 9 May 2 1 June 4 June 19 July s July 16 July 3° August ..5 Sept. 2 Sept. 11 Sept. 24 October 10 October 22 Nov. 8 Nov. 18 Dec. 3 Dec. 20 Dec. 30 1896. 33 34 32 32 34 32 34 32 32 33 35 32 32 34 38 33 32 34 32 35 31 32 35 31 1895. 1895. Feb. 14 March 1 March 13 March 2 7 April 1 2 April 24 May 10 May 22 June 5 June 20 July 6 July 17 J ul y 3' August 16 Sept. 3 Sept. 12 Sept. 25 October 1 1 October 23 Nov. 9 Nov. 19 Dec. 4 Dec. 2 1 Dec. 3 ( 1896. ■ 895. .895. Feb. 19 March 5 March 19 April 1 April 16 April 30 May 17 May 31 June 14 July 5 J uly 12 July 27 August 5 August 22 Sept. 16 Sept. 26 October 4 October 21 Nov. 5 Nov. 16 Nov. 26 Dec. 9 Dec. 27 1896. 1895. .895. Feb. 20 March 7 March 20 April 2 April 18 May 1 May 16 May 30 June 12 July 5 July 13 July 29 August 6 August 24 Sept. 17 Sept. 27 October 5 October 19 Nov. 6 Nov. 18 Nov. 27 Dec. 1 o Dec. 26 1896. Jan. 7 Jan. 24 Feb. 6 1895. l8 95 . Feb. 21 March 6 March 20 April 3 April 19 May 3 May 15 May 29 June 1 1 July 4 July 14 July 24 August 7 August 23 Sept. 10 Sept. 20 Sept. 30 October 18 Nov. 4 Nov. 20 Nov. 26 Dec. 12 Dec. 25 1896. .895. 1895. Feb. 23 March 9 March 18 April 1 April 19 April 30 May 17 May 27 June 10 July 1 July 12 July 22 August 5 August 26 Sept. 9 Sept. 18 Sept. 30 October 19 Nov. 2 Nov. 2 1 Nov. 25 Dec. 1 1 Dec. 2 7 1896. Jan. 7 Jan. 25 Feb. 3 Jan. ti Jan. 25 Feb. 8 Feb. 22 March 8 March 22 April 5 April 19 May 3 May 17 May 3 1 June 14 June 28 July 12 July 26 August 9 August 23 Sept. 6 Sept. 20 October 4 October 18 Nov. 1 Nov. 15 Nov. 29 Jan. 11 fan. 25 Feb. 8 Feb. 2 2 March 8 March 22 April 5 April 19 May 3 May 1 "7 May 31 June 14 June 28 July 12 July 26 August 9 August 23 Sept. 6 Sept. 20 October 4 October 18 Nov. 1 I Nov. 15 i Nov. 29 34 35 33 33 35 33 35 33 33 34 36 33 33 35 39 34 33 35 33 36 32 33 36 32 Jan. 11 Jan. 25 Feb. 8 Feb. 22 March 8 March 2 2 April 5 April 19 May 3 May 17 May 3 1 June 14 June 28 July 12 July 26 August 9 August 23 Sept. 6 Sept. 20 October 4 October 18 Nov. 1 Nov. 15 39 39 39 38 39 39 42 42 42 49 42 43 38 41 52 48 42 45 46 43 39 38 42 Jan. 11 Jan. 25 Feb. 8 Feb. 22 March 8 March 22 April 5 April 19 May 3 May 17 May 31 June 14 June 28 July 12 July 26 August 9 August 23 Sept. 6 Sept. 20 October 4 October 18 Nov. 1 Nov. 15 40 41 40 39 4' 40 41 41 40 49 43 45 39 43 53 49 43 43 47 45 40 39 41 Jan. 1 1 Jan. 2; Feb. 8 Feb. 22 March 8 March 22 April 5 April 19 May 3 May 17 May 31 June 14 June 28 July 12 July 26 August 9 August 23 Sept. 6 Sept. 20 October 4 October 18 Nov. 1 Nov. 15 41 40 40 40 42 42 40 40 39 48 44 40 40 42 46 42 38 42 45 47 39 4' 40 Jan. 11 Jan. 25 Feb. 8 Feb. 22 March 8 March 22 April 5 April 19 May 3 May 17 May 31 June 14 June 28 July 12 July 26 August 9 August 23 Sept. 6 Sept. 20 October 4 October 18 Nov. 1 Nov. 15 43 43 38 38 42 39 42 38 38 45 42 38 ?,8 45 45 40 38 43 43 48 38 40 42 Dec. 13 Dec. 27 Jan. 16 Jan. 28 34 32 Dec. 13 Dec. 2 7 Jan. 17 Jan. 29 35 33 Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Dec. 27 Jan. 6 Jan. 25 Feb. 5 38 43 40 Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Dec. 27 39 42 4i Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Dec. 27 Jan. 9 Jan. 22 Feb. 5 4i 40 40 Nov. 29 Dec. 13 Dec. 27 39 43 38 Maximum Minimum Average 38 3i 39 32 34-08 52 38 4>-85 53 39 42-46 48 38 4 1 50 48 38 41*00

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Table No. 11.-PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL MAIL-SERVICE-continued. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the under-mentioned Places by the Packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Line— continued.

TO LONDON VIA BRINDISI (P. AND O. PACKETS). Auckland. Wellington. Bluff. Sydney. Melbourne. Date of Despatch from Auckland. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Wellington. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Bluff. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Sydney. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Melbourne. Date of Arrival in London No. of Days. 1895. January 9 January 23 February 6 February 21 March 6 March 20 April 3 April 15 May 1 May 14 1895. February 16 March 4 March 17 April 1 April 14 April 28 May 12 May 25 June 9 June 23 38 40 39 39 39 39 39 40 39 40 1895. January 31 February 28 March 14 1895. March 17 April 14 April 28 45 45 45 1895. January 8 January 22 February 6 February 19 March 5 March 19 April 2 April 16 April 30 May 10 1895. February 16 March 4 March 17 April 1 April 14 April 28 May 12 May 25 June 9 June 23 39 39 4 1 40 40 40 39 40 44 1895. January 14 January 28 February 1 1 February 25 March 11 March 25 April 8 April 22 May 6 May 20 June 3 June 17 July 1 July 15 July 29 August 12 August 26 Sept. 9 Sept. 23 October 7 October 21 November 4 November 18 1895. February 16 March 4 March 17 April 1 April 14 April 28 May 12 May 25 June 9 June 23 July 9 July 21 August 4 August 19 Sept. 4 Sept. 14 Sept. 28 October 14 October 26 November 11 November 23 December 8 December 22 i8g6. January 6 January 18 February 2 33 35 34 35 34 34 34 33 34 34 36 34 34 35 37 33 33 35 33 35 33 34 34 1895. January 15 January 29 February 12 February 26 March 12 March 26 April 9 April 23 May 7 May 21 June 4 June 18 July 2 July 16 July 30 August 13 August 27 Sept. 10 Sept. 24 October 8 October 22 November 5 November 19 i8 95 . February 16 March 4 March 17 April 1 April 14 April 28 May 12 May 25 June 9 June 23 July 9 July 21 August 4 August 1 g Sept. 4 Sept. 14 Sept. 28 October 14 October 26 November 11 November 23 December 8 December 22 1896. January 6 January 18 February 2 32 34 33 34 33 33 33 32 33 33 35 33 33 34 36 32 32 34 32 34 32 33 33 June 10 June 24 July 10 July 22 August 7 August 20 Sept. 4 Sept. 17 October 2 October 16 October 29 November 13 July 21 August 4 August 19 Sept. 4 Sept. 14 Sept. 28 October 14 October 26 November 11 November 23 December 8 December 22 1896. 41 4 1 40 44 39 40 39 40 38 40 39 May 10 May 29 June 8 June 21 June 23 July 9 July 21 August 4 44 41 43 44 June 8 June 25 July 21 August 4 43 40 August 1 August 17 August 29 Sept. 12 October 1 October 8 October 29 November 8 44 42 46 44 4 1 46 40 44 July 20 Sept. 4 46 Sept. 14 Sept. 28 October 14 October 26 November 11 November 23 December 8 December 22 1896. January 6 January 18 February 2 August 30 Sept. 17 October 1 October 8 October 14 October 26 November 11 November 23 45 39 4 1 46 November 12 December 22 1896. January 6 January 18 February 2 40 December 11 December 24 January 18 February 2 38 40 November 22 December 5 December 19 45 44 45 November 26 December 10 December 24 4 1 39 40 December 2 December 16 December 30 35 33 34 December 3 December 17 December 31 34 32 33 Maximum Minimum Average 44 38 39'54 46 40 378 46 39 .no 37 33 34 J 5 36 32 33 :i 5

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Table No. 12.-ORIENT MAIL-SERVICE. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the under-mentioned Places by the Packets of the Orient Line.

FROM LONDON VIA NAPLES (ORIENT PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Bluff. Christchurch. Wellington'. Auckland. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Melbourne. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Sydney. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival at Bluff. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Christchurch. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Wellington. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from London. Date of Arrival in Auckland. No. of Days. ! ! 1 ; I 1895. Jan. 4 Jan. 18 Feb. 1 Feb. 15 March 1 March 15 March 29 April 12 April 26 May 10 May 24 June 7 June 21 July 5 July 19 August 2 August 16 August 30 Sept. 13 Sept. 27 October 11 October 25 Nov. 8 i8 95 . Feb. 7 Feb. 20 March 5 March 20 April 1 1 April 16 May 1 May 15 May 28 June 12 June 26 July 13 July 25 August 8 August 21 Sept. 4 Sept. 18 October 2 October 17 October 30 Nov. 13 Nov. 28 Dec. 11 34 33 3 2 33 4' 32 33 33 32 33 33 34 34 33 33 33 33 34 33 33 34 33 1895. Jan. 4 Jan. 18 Feb. 1 Feb. 15 March 1 March 15 March 29 April 12 April 26 May 10 May 24 June 7 June 21 July 5 July 19 August 2 August 16 August 30 Sept. 13 Sept. 27 October 11 October 25 Nov. 8 1895. Feb. 8 Feb. 2 1 March 7 March 2 1 April 12 April 17 May 2 May 16 May 29 June 13 June 27 July 15 July 26 August 9 August 22 Sept. 5 Sept. 19 October 3 October 18 October 3 1 Nov. 14 Nov. 29 Dec. 12 35 34 34 34 42 33 34 34 33 34 34 38 35 35 34 34 34 34 35 34 34 35 34 .895. Jan. 4 Jan. ( 8 Feb. 1 Feb. 15 March 1 March 15 March 29 April 12 April 26 May 10 May 24 June 7 June 21 July 5 July 19 August 2 August 16 August 30 Sept. 13 Sept. 27 October 1 1 October 25 Nov. 8 ■ 895. Feb. 14 Feb. 25 March 12 March 26 April 16 April 23 May 14 May 24 June 4 June 26 July 5 July 27 August 3 August 19 August 30 Sept. 16 Sept. 26 October 15 October 25 Nov. 5 Nov. 20 Dec. 9 Dec. 16 1896. 41 38 39 39 46 39 46 42 39 47 42 5° 43 45 42 45 4' 46 42 39 40 45 38 1895. Jan. 4 Jan. 18 Feb. 1 Feb. 15 March 1 March 15 March 29 April 12 April 26 May 10 May 24 June 7 June 21 July 5 July 19 August 2 August 16 August 30 Sept. 13 Sept. 27 October 11 October 25 Nov. 8 1895. Feb. 13 Feb. 26 March 13 March 27 April 18 April 24 May 15 May 25 June 5 June 21 July 5 July 25 August 2 August 16 August 31 Sept. ' 7 Sept. 27 October 16 October 26 Nov. 6 Nov. 2 1 Dec. 6 Dec. 18 1896. 40 39 40 40 48 40 47 43 4° 42 42 48 42 42 43 36 42 47 43 40 4 1 42 40 ,8 95 . Jan. 4 Jan. 18 Feb. 1 Feb. 15 March 1 March 15 March 29 April 12 April 26 May 10 May 24 June 7 June 21 July 5 July 19 August 2 August 16 August 30 Sept. 13 Sept. 27 October 1 1 October 25 Nov. 8 1895. Feb. 14 Feb. 28 March 12 March 2 7 April 19 April 23 May 10 May 23 June 7 June 20 July 4 July 24 August 1 August 15 August 30 Sept. 10 Sept. 26 October 18 October 25 Nov. 5 Nov. 20 Dec. 5 Dec. 19 41 4' 39 40 49 39 42 4' 42 4' 41 47 4> 41 42 39 4i 49 42 39 40 41 4' 1895. Jan. 4 Jan. 18 Feb. 1 Feb. 15 March 1 March 15 March 29 April 12 April 26 May 10 May 24 June 7 June 21 July 5 July 19 August 2 August 16 August 30 Sept. 13 Sept. 27 October 11 October 25 Nov. 8 1895. Feb. 17 March 2 March 13 March 30 April 19 April 22 May 9 May 22 J une 3 June 22 July 8 July 22 August 1 August 17 Sept. 2 Sept. 1 1 Sept. 28 October 15 October 23 Nov. 9 Nov. 2 1 Dec. 7 Dec. 20 1896. 44 43 40 43 49 38 41 40 38 43 45 45 4i 43 45 40 43 46 40 43 4' 43 42 Nov. 22 Dec. 26 1896. 34 I I Nov. 22 Dec. 27 1896. 35 Nov. 22 Jan. 3 42 j Nov. 22 Jan. 2 4' Nov. 22 Dec. 3 1 1896. i 39 i Nov. 22 Jan. 4 43 Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 8 Jan. 23 33 34 j I Dec. 6 j Dec. 20 Jan. 9 Jan. 24 34 35 Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 13 Jan. 3 1 38 42 Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 14 Jan. 30 39 4i Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 14 Jan. 29 39 40 Dec. 6 Dec. 20 Jan. 16 Feb. 3 41 45 Maximum Minimum Average 4' 32 33-58 42 33 34'65 5° 38 48 36 41-85 49 39 41-42 49 38 42-5°

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Table No. 12—ORIENT MAIL-SERVICE— continued. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the under-mentioned Places by the Packets of the Orient Line— continued.

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TO LONDON VIA NAPLES (ORIENT PACKETS). Auckland. Wellington. Bluff. Sydney. Melbourne. Date o£ Despatch from Auckland. Date of Arrival in London. NT t Date of Davs Despatch from Oa>s. s Wellington. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Bluff. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Sydney. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. Date of Despatch from Melbourne. Date of Arrival in London. No. of Days. 1895. January 2 January 16 January 30 February 13 February 27 March 13 March 27 April 10 April 18 May 8 May 22 June 4 June 20 1895. February 11 February 23 March 9 March 23 April 8 April 21 May 4 May 18 June 3 June 16 July 1 July 15 July 29 1895. 1895. 1895. January 1 January 15 January 29 February 12 February 26 March 13 March 27 April 10 1895. February 1 1 February 23 March 9 March 23 April 8 April 21 May 4 May 18 1895. January 7 January 21 February 4 February 18 March 4 March 18 April 1 April 15 April 29 May 13 May 27 June 10 June 24 July 8 July 22 August 5 August 19 Sept. 2 Sept. 16 Sept. 30 October 14 October 28 November 11 November 1 25 1895. February 11 February 23 March 9 March 23 April 8 April 21 May 4 May 18 une 3 une 16 ' uly 15 July 29 August 14 August 25 Sept. 11 Sept. 24 October 8 October 20 November 2 November 16 November 30 December 16 December 30 1896. January 12 January 26 1895. January 8 January 22 February 5 February 19 March 5 March 19 April 2 April 16 April 30 May 14 May 28 June 11 June 25 July July 23 August 6 August 20 Sept. 3 Sept. 17 October 1 October 15 October 29 November 12 November 26 February 11 February 23 March 9 March 23 April 8 April 21 May 4 May 18 June 3 June 16 July I J ul y 15 July 29 August 14 August 25 Sept. 11 Sept. 24 October 8 October 20 November 2 November 16 November 30 December 16 December 30 1896. January 12 January 26 40 38 38 40 39 38 38 46 39 40 41 39 January 16 February 9 February 23 March 23 38 42 4 1 39 39 39 39 38 38 35 33 33 33 35 34 33 33 35 34 35 35 35 37 34 37 36 34 33 33 33 35 35 34 32 32 32 34 33 32 32 34 33 34 34 34 36 33 36 35 35 33 32 32 32 34 34 April 19 May 2 May 20 June 3 June 16 July 1 45 45 42 May 2 May 22 May 29 'June 16 July 1 July 15 45 40 47 August 25 39 June 29 July 17 August 14 August 25 46 39 August 25 Sept. 11 Sept. 24 October 8 October 20 47 44 47 48 41 July 17 August 14 Sept. 24 41 August 9 Sept. 24 46 July 9 July 29 August 8 August 21 Sept. 9 Sept. 11 Sept. 23 October 20 November 2 39 40 November 2 Sept. 21 42 October 21 November 6 November 18 November 30 December 16 December 30 1896. January 12 January 26 40 40 42 October 21 November 15 November 30 December 30 1896. January 12 January 26 40 45 October 22 November 6 November 19 November 30 December 16 December 30 1896. January 12 January 26 39 40 41 December 4 December 16 39 41 November 29 December 13 44 44 December 3 December 16 40 41 December 9 December 23 1896. January 6 34 34 December 10 December 24 1896. January 7 33 33 December 31 February 8 39 December 28 February 8 42 December 31 February 8 39 February 8 33 February 8 32 Maximum Minimum Average 46 38 3974 46 38 42-86 48 38 41-50 37 33 3433 36 32 33'33

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Table No. 13. Table showing the estimated Number of Letters, Letter-cards, Post-cards, Book-packets, Newspapers, and Parcels dealt with in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand, during the Year ended 31st December, 1895.

Posted in the Colony. Received from places outside the Colony. Total correspondence dealt with. lisi rid 3. Letters. card"" Post-cards. Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Letters. cards' Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Letters. catr *>*-«** Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Gisborne Napier Wanganui Wellington .. Nelson Westport Greymouth Hokitika Blenheim Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill .. 4.224,779 473.655 697,827 239,603 1,554,943 1,497,925 5,419,128 567,164 195,702 370,227 168,519 382,486 4,O3i,755 839,215 527,514 4,102,800 1,675,713 51.454 9,269 20,683 2,093 34.333 53,079 131,092 11,245 1,859 4,706 3,O55 14,313 90,909 32,799 14,326 105,716 56,082 209,482 16,237 39,195 6,760 63,973 96,733 195,403 30,628 3,978 6,188 5,343 13,000 161,629 5i,376 26,039 189,046 81,146 1,634,698 88,270 173.797 65,520 513,838 585,780 1,790,425 120,926 25,025 75.595 19,097 70,629 908, 362 257,231 89,908 1,452,243 466,336 1,814,189 131,833 230,282 68,536 460,369 390,715 1,463,644 124,293 85,293 135,278 76,960 128,752 1,619,865 142,519 113,789 1,432,834 544,960 3i,7 10 2,285 949 7,925 5,126 38,812 2,283 1,872 24,046 1,712 810 24,982 3,946 310,435 34,38o 51,570 17,190 114,620 109,845 398,3" 42,020 14,325 26,740 12,415 27,695 296,105 61,120 952 60 178 3 1 297 476 895 117 18 30 29 59 726 238 121 893 357 493.275 27,411 50,895 19,569 152,681 176,170 540,252 35,235 7. 8 3O 23,490 3,915 19,581 274,037 78,300 27,399 438,467 I4 O ,937 748,834 53,873 96,971 26,936 188,555 161,619 608, 764 53,88i 37,7" 53,873 32,323 53,879 668,029 59,260 48,485 592,603 226,266 3,921 264 258 187 940 596 4.779 604 190 270 177 261 3,007 196 178 3,150 476 4,535,214 508,035 749,397 256,793 1,669,563 1,607, 770 5,817,439 609,184 210,027 396,967 180,934 410,181 4,327,860 900,335 566,669 4,404, 640 1,798 '928 5i,454 9,269 20,683 2,093 34,333 53,O79 131,092 11,245 1,859 4,706 3,055 I4,3I3 90,909 32,799 14,326 105,716 56,082 210,434 16,297 39,373 6,791 64,270 97,209 196,298 30,745 3.996 6,218 5.372 13,059 162,355 51,614 26,160 189,939 81,503 2,127,973 II5,68l 224,692 85,089 666,519 761,950 2,330,677 156,161 32,855 99,085 23,OI2 9O,2IO 1,182,399 335,531 "7,3O7 1,890,710 607,273 2,563,023 185,706 327,253 95,472 648,924 552,334 2,072,408 178,174 123,004 189,151 109,283 182,631 2,287,894 201,779 162,274 2,025,437 771,226 35,631 2,235 2,543 1,136 8,865 5,722 43,591 5.77 1 1,707 2,553 1,816 2,133 27,053 1,908 988 28,132 4,422 39,155 301,840 123,215 Totals 1 . 26,968,955 637.013 1,196,156 8,337,680 8,964 ,111 156,752 1,980,981 5,477 2,509,444 3,711,862 19,454 28,949,936 [637.OI3 1,201 ,633 10,847,124 12,675,973 176,20* Previous year 25,823,967 1,816,044 1,253,840 ■• 1,2, .8,819 6,900, o. 8, ,6< ,021 2, ,002 18,56: ,6, jO,OII ,051 12, •08 ,26,

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Table No. 14. Table showing the Number of Letters, Letter-cards, Post-cards, Packets, Newspapers, and Parcels Posted in New Zealand and the Number received from beyond the Colony. Posted.

Articles subject to Postage. Articles exempt from Postage. Parcels. Service. i Letters. Post-cards. Packets, including Printed Matter (except Newspapers), Commercial Papers, and Samples of Merchandise. Number. Lettercards. Newspapers. Letters. Packets. Registered Articles. Newspapers. Weight. Postage. Declared Value. Ordinary. | Single. With Reply paid. Ordinary. Registered. ft. £ s. d. £ s. d. Inland 22,878,915 82,806 637,013 1,188,578 3,096 7,835,252 12,785 6,160,246 2,307,775 j 167,879 77,787 1,585,896 149,454 500,833 8,399 11 9 Intercolonial .. 659,870 43,398 2,044 5 148,585 6,677 536,043 35,718 2,545 2,251 593 | 3,774 8,434 283 6 0 [ 6,374 19 11 6,374 19 11 International .. 847,379 22,331 2,427 6 159,986 3,389 681,198 7,834 582 2,891 135 ' 3,524 9,113 460 14 11J 9,143 12 8} Totals .. 24,386,164 148,535 637,013 1,193,049 3,107 2,351,327 ! ■171,006 82,929 1,586,624 156,752 8,143,823 22,851 7,377,487 1518,380 Received. Intercolonial .. International .. Totals .. .. I 893,123; 14,149 .. | 1,033,346 : 16,377 .. | 1,926,469 30,526 2,553 2,911 5,464 6 7 1,604,898 897,438 2,502,336 2,177 2,519 4,696 1,272,431 2,438,894 15,741 2,369 1,164 1,248 2,572 256 3,304 281 5,876 537 5,773 13,681 17,475 46,339 484 19 8 1,958 14 6 • 26,668 14 13 . 63,814 3,711,325 18,110 2,412 19,454 I 2,443 14 2 26,668 14

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Table No. 15. Table showing the Number of Letters, Letter-cards, Post-cards, Books, Newspapers, and Parcels delivered by the Letter-carriers from the Post Offices within the several Postal Districts during the Year ended 31st December, 1895.

Postal Districts. Letters. Letter-cards. Post-cards. Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Auckland Thames New Plymouth Gisborne Napier Wanganui Wellington Nelson .. .. Westport Greymouth Hokitika Blenheim" Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill 2,713,477 193,968 215,349 96,726 492,056 359,890 1,800,079 ' m>329 48,919 117,946 77,712 80,588 1,547.879 224,539 122,014 1,225,821 384,299 64,103 4,571 5,078 2,285 II,6lI 8,494 42,519 4,O39 1,154 2,770 1,823 1,893 36,564 5,286 2,862 23,591 9,072 i°3>374 14,466 I7>3°8 2,116 25-694 35,4™ 68,012 8,732 2,612 4.364 4.154 4,602 79,43° 23.139 11,015 59,144 47,542 329,582 44.077 39.421 10,828 106,914 181,322 234,760 25,126 14,066 31,236 13,867 43,604 3*2,156 84.767 24,039 390,875 110,292 557.231 66,201 "9,939 31,737 108,056 114,656 427,407 76,286 24,882 61,466 58,493 61,530 332,647 59,477 29,308 316,220 143,985 9,967 1,264 1,39° 676 3,052 2,260 6,612 1,126 388 702 562 580 5,686 J.344 732 4,942 2,304 Totals 9,872,591 227,715 511,114 1,996,932 2,589,515 43,587 Previous year.. 9,628,385 2,563.892 451,157 i>773.479 42,507

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Table No. 16. Comparative Table showing the Progress of the Telegraphs during the Financial Years ended 30th June, 1866, to 30th June, 1879; 31st March, 1880, to 31st March, 1882; and Calendar Years ended 31st December, 1882, to 31st December, 1893.

a o 3 Number of Telegrams during the Yes forwarded Cost of Maintenance of Lines, excluding , Australian Cable Subsidy. Cost of Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Year ended Number of Miles of Line. Number of Miles of Wire. 'o a. I 0 z Private, j Governand Press, i ment. Revenue from all Sources. Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Business done during the Year. Cost of Maintenance of Stations. Total Expenditure. Tariff in Operation. Total. 30th June, 1866 699 i,39o 13 24,761 2,746 27,407 £ s - d. 5,561 19 2 483 3 2 £ s. d. 6,045 2 4 3,934 3 4 £ s - d. 2,443 2 11 £ s. d. 6,377 6 3 3 9 10 1867 757 1,498 21 55,621 15.331 7 O ,952 9,070 10 1 3,770 4 8 12,840 14 9 8,017 X 4 7 2,541 4 11 10,558 19 6 3 7 1 f- Mileage tariff. 1868 1,110 2,223 31 72,241 26,244 98,485 ",652 3 7 6,672 o 3 18,324 3 10 9,489 17 10 5,406 7 3 14,896 5 1 4 J 7 4 1869 1,329 2,495 45 106,070 50,097 156,167 18,520 10 4 i3,43O 11 9 3i,95i 2 1 14,266 12 7 8,547 4 9 22,813 17 4 6 8 6 1870 1,661 2,897 56 122,545 62,878 185,423 17,218 1 4 12,252 6 0 29,470 7 4 16,417 7 4 14,120 4 10 3°,537 I2 2 8 9 11 Mileage tariff in operation up to 1st Sept., 1869; uniform as. 6d. tariff from ist (Sept., 1S69, to 31st March. 1870; and is. tariff, from 1st April, 18)0. 1871 1,976 3,247 72 253,582 59,292 312,874 22,419 8 8 9,876 17 6 32,296 6 2 21,254 4 3 ii,344 3 8 32,598 7 11 5 19 6 1872 2,185 3,823 81 344,524 67,243 411,767 28,121 10 o 11,043 3 9 39,164 13 9 23,593 9 9 8,858 19 7 32,452 9 4 423 1873 2,35° 4,574 93 485,507 i 83,453 568, 960 39,680 18 9 11,105 2 o 50,786 o 9 27,040 18 10 9,479 5 4 36,520 4 2 4 1 11 1874 2,53° 5,782 105 645, 067 107,832 752,899 46,508 18 10 12,618 11 6 59,127 10 4 38,801 19 4 15,021 17 11 53,823 17 3 6 3 11 1875 1876 1877 1878 2,986 3.154 3,259 6,626 7,247 7,423 8,035 127 142 155 182 786,237 890,382 952,283. 1,065,481 1130,891 160,704 172,159 917,128 1,051,086 1,124,442 1,260,324 55,3Oi 12 3 62,715 10 4 65,644 J 5 3 73,284 1 10 13,679 10 9 16,154 6 o 17,024 8 9 19,148 12 4 68,981 3 o 78,869 16 4 82,669 4 ° 45,814 11 4 61,696 14 5 63,353 IO 10 14,240 19 7 21,074 8 8 17,931 8 o 60,055 10 11 82,771 3 1 81,284 18 10 4 16 4 5 18 10 5 12 11 From ist November, 1873 address and signature given in free. From ist Jan., 1886, delayed telegrams posted to addressees immediately after their receipt at offices of destination. 3,434 194,843 92,432 14 2 69,340 1 8 18,259 4 9 87,599 6 5 5 10 o 1879 3,512 8,117 195 1,201,982 246,961 1,448,943 85,402 o 2 26,949 2 2 112,351 2 4 79,502 o 5 17,299 7 10 96,801 8 3 5O9 31st March, 1880 3,638 I 9,333 214 824,734 183,675 1,008, 409 58,120 3 3 19,707 6 3 77,827 9 6 68,651 10 10 I4>758 4 5 83,409 15 3 4 3 4 1881 3,758 J 9,587 227 1,058,342 246,370 1,304,712 73,OO2 2 O 27,021 3 8 100,023 5 8 78,224 1 8 23,154 8 3 101,378 9 11 667 1882 3,824 9,653 234 1,215,849 222,923 1,438,772 78,828 19 8 (22,737 16 4 101,566 16 o 69,165 5 o 18,292 13 4 87,457 l8 4 4 17 4

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Table No. 16 — continued. Comparative Table showing, the Progress of the Telegraph Department during the Financial Years ended 30th June, 1866, to 30th June, 1879; 31st March, 1880, to 31st March, 1882; and Calendar Years ended 31st December, 1882, to 31st December, 1893— continued.

Year ended. Number of Miles of Line. Number of Miles of Wire. o so z Number oi dui : Telegrams ring the Ye; forwarded .r. Revenue from all Sources. Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Business done during the Year. Cost of Cost of ! Maintenance Maintenance q,„,. _„ excluding stations. Australian Cable Subsidy. Total Expenditure. Cost of Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Tariff in Operation. Private, and Press. Government. Total. 31st Dec, 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 3,974 4,264 4,463 4,646 4,790 4,874 5,148 5,349 5,479 5,513 9,848 10,037 10,474 10,931 11,178 n,375 11,617 11,827 12,812 13,235 13,459 I3,5i5 264 302 330 375 412 437 473 489 520 573 615 640 1,361,817 1,379,4 8 3 1,433,458 1,533,406 1,583, 7*7 1,589,771 1,548,233 1,589,157 i,734,38i 1,746,115 1,686,064 1,825,646 208,372 219,917 220,847 240,867 252,549 245,623 217,630 213,830 226,780 222,149 218,079 244,045 1,570,189 1,599,400 1,654,305 1,774,273 1,836,266 1,835,394 1,765,863 1,802,987 1,961,161 1,968,264 1,904, J 43 2,069,691 90.633 11 2 93.822 3 3 95.634 5 5 101,652 8 o 106,638 12 2 106,548 4 o 106,311 11 6 106,462 18 4 110,696 17 8 H7> 6 33 15 9 103,813 8 6J 112,465 15 9 £ s. d. 20,608 11 11 21,555 19 2 20,855 19 7 24,860 9 o 27,281 4 9 30,205 11 10 23,164 13 11 24,218 9 3 26,070 12 7 24,840 5 7 24,342 7 o 28,317 7 10 £ s. d. 111,242 3 1 "5,378 2 5 116,490 5 o 126,512 17 o 133,919 16 II 136,753 15 10 129,476 5 5 130,681 7 7 136,767 10 3 142,474 1 4 128,155 15 6J 140,783 3 7 £ s. d. 73,554 9 1 73,054 4 6 70,036 6 2 77,082 4 4 77,473 10 7 76,580 10 o 72,201 13 5 75,426 9 7 76,845 1 10 85,658 4 11 87,472 13 3 92,109 17 o 22,451 6 3 19,210 6 6 20,041 15 10 20,goo 6 2 21,402 18 2 21,321 2 9 23,262 1 o 26,007 1 5 27,546 2 o 28,986 10 10 29,580 10 11 29,141 6 o £ 8. d. 96,005 15 4 92,264 II o 90,078 2 O 97,982 10 6 98,875 8 9 97,901 12 9 95,463 14 5 101,433 11 o 104,391 3 10 114,644 15 9 "7,o53 4 2 121,251 3 o 5 17 5 4 16 8 4 iS 4 4 J 5 9 4 13 9 5 o 1 5 3 7 5 13 o 5 12 7 5 5 9 From 1st November, 1873, address and signature given in free. From 1st Jan., 1886, delayed telegrams posted to addressees immediately after their receipt at offices of destination. For the Financial Years 1894-95 and 1895■96. c. Number of Telegrams f luring the Yeai forwarded Revenue. r. Year ended of Miles of Line. of Miles of Wire. 3 z Government Messages. Total Value of Business done during the Year. Total Expenditure (excluding Cable Subsidy). Remarks. Private, and Press. Government. Total. Telegraph. Telephone. 31st March, 1895 1896 5,96iJ 6,245! i4,88ij I5,764l 1,802,182 1,899,632 231,618 224,579 2,033,800 2,124,211 88,459 10 11 99,178 14 oj £ s, d. 21,552 12 10 25,933 12 9 26,050 7 5 25,843 11 11 £ s. d. £ a. d. 136,062 11 2 135,791 o 7 148,955 18 8J 143,665 14 o £ s. a. Cable subsidy . .6,492 11 8 ..4,774 5 5 705 743

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Table No. 17. Table showing the Cash Revenue derived from Private and Press Messages, the Value of Government Messages, and the Number of Messages, transmitted in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand, for the Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1896.

Table No. 18. Return of Paid Telegrams of all Codes forwarded during the Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1896, and the Revenue received.

Table No. 19. Return of the Number and Value of Telegraph Money-orders issued within the several Postal Districts during the Year ended 31st December, 1895.

Postal Districts. Revenue derived from Private and Press Messages. Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Messages of all Codes. Number of Private and Press Messages. Number of Govt. Messages. Total Number of Messages of all Codes. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth .. Oamaru Thames.. Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport £ *• d - 17,411 6 4J 1,565 7 2 i 10,853 4 ° 11,803 IZ 4i 2,036 16 5J 2,597 8 iij 1,026 9 3 4,696 18 3 5,724 4 6 2,094 6 6 2,373 3 8J 1,617 Jβ si 4,100 18 ij 2,283 i 5 4,842 17 10 15,671 19 2J 1,589 18 10 £ ■■ d - 3,899 13 o 525 5 8 2,186 14 6 2,214 15 11 494 !5 o 771 9 6 339 8 2 869 14 4 970 3 o 666 6 1 783 o 3 212 1 1 590 16 o 335 9 9 989 19 4 9,487 12 1 506 8 3 £ ■■ d. 21,310 19 4^ 2,090 12 10j 13,039 18 6 14,018 8 31 2,531 " 5i 3,368 18 5$ 1,365 17 5 5,566 12 7 6,694 7 6 2,760 12 7 3,156 3 11J 1,829 Z 7 6J 4,691 14 ij 2,618 11 2 5,832 17 2 25,159 11 3i 2,096 7 1 351,516 29,134 195,269 237,865 37,023 46,562 18,238 106,792 103,569 45,810 44,878 25,706 76,788 38,944 90,863 4 I 9,9i5 30,760 35,8i3 5,3O5 I9>923 19,579 4,396 5,723 2,611 7,423 8,906 6,735 6,888 1,978 6,023 3.522 9,065 76,230 4.459 387.329 34.439 215,I9 2 257,444 41,419 52,285 20,849 114,215 112,475 52,545 51,7 66 27,684 82,811 42,466 99,928 49 6 , I 45 35,219 Totals, 1895-96 Totals, 1894-95 92,289 9 5J 85,388 8 11 25,843 II II 26,050 7 5 118,133 i 4i 111,438 16 4 1,899,632 1,802,182 224,579 231,618 2,124,211 2,033,800

Class of Telegrams. June Quarter, 1895. Septembei Quarter, 1895. December Quarter, 1895. March Quarter, 1896. Totals. Number. Revenue. Number. Revenue. Number. Revenue. Number. Revenue. Number. Revenue. Irdinary .. Irgent )elayed 'ress 224,455 11,839 141,859 46,415 20,645 £ * d. 21,162 10 10J 1,496 14 9 I 4,387 o Ilj 2,075 6 5 j 488 3 8 ' 222,659 I3,7!4 148,583 52,002 19,999 21,611 g 11J 1,748 7 o 4, 6 43 10 3i 2,771 II 2 476 17 4 265,215 15,920 142,152 49,760 23,017 -7 s. d. 24,217 6 8 2,037 I0 I0 4,364 10 2 2,343 14 7 540 16 5 302,919 17,565 105,390 49,93i 25,593 \ £ s. d. 27.496 5 5i ,2,227 17 9 13,250 o 7,} 2,317 6 6 604 5 9 1,015,248 59,038 537,984 198,108 89,254 ;£ <»• d. 94,487 12 11J 7,510 10 4 16,645 2 oj 9,507 18 8 2,110 3 2 lureau Iross totals -ess other j lines and [ credits ) 445,213 29,609 16 8 9,061 16 3J! 456,957 31,251 15 9 9,113 12 10J 496,064 33,503 18 8 9,215 19 1 501,398 35,895 16 1 10,580 9 5j 1,899,632 130,261 7 2 37,971 17 8J fet totals, 1895-96 let totals, 1894-95 445,213 444,172 20,548 o 4J! 21,310 19 r* 456,957 421,105 22,138 2 ioj 19,978 o 51 496,064 457,o 8 9 24,287 19 7 21,663 4 7JI 501,398 479,816 25,315 6 7i 22,436 4 8£ 1,899,632 1,802,182 92,289 9 5i 85,388 8 11

Districts. Number. Telegraph Commission. Value of Orders. Auckland .. Blenheim .. Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui .. Wellington Westport .. 5,365 639 1,760 2,011 923 811 368 863 2,149 495 888 225 !,397 35O 2,224 4,595 793 £ •■ d. 268 5 o 31 19 o 88 o o 100 11 o 46 3 o 40 11 o 18 8 o 43 3 o 107 9 o 24 15 o 44 8 o 11 5 o 69 17 o 17 10 0 III 40 229 15 o 39 13 ° £ ■ ■■ d. 24,968 4 5 2,236 1 4 6,674 ° 8 7,230 18 4 3»564 9 7 2,661 3 1 1,361 5 2 2,639 3 9 7,212 4 1 1,824 I 5 4 2,463 17 11 774 5 4 5,277 9 8 1,219 12 8 7,O49 9 5 15,909 6 3 2,480 2 10 Totals, 1895 25,856 1,292 16 o 95,546 9 10 Totals, 1894 1,136 I o 82,148 9 6 22,721

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Table No. 20. Return showing the Capital Cost, Working-expenses, and Revenue of the Telephone Exchanges, Year by Year, from the Date of their Establishment.

°J Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight, Superintendence, &c. Working-expenses. Year. Eevenue. Close of Tear. I Salaries and Linemen, * Wear-ana- T ? e 1 ? f t '-|' ue1, Allowances of Batteries, ana tear, &c, 5 a Per, Clerks, &c. Materials. Ten per Cent. B -"■ ln jg Total. Balance of Eevenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Bate Per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. a a Average Cost of ! Total for all each Con- Connections, nection. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 . 1894 1895 1896 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. a. £ s. d. £ s. d. 116 379 715 1,075 1,710 2,038 2,153 2,249 2,402 2,587 3,080 3,690 4,244 4,616 5,143 21 16 6 21 16 6 21 16 6 21 18 6 20 8 6 19 19 5 22 19 0 23 18 10 24 4 1 24 17 1 24 16 11 24 16 11 24 12 1 25 6 3 24 6 6 2,531 14 0 8,271 13 6 15,604 17 6 23,461 17 6 37,319 12 1 40.686 3 1 49,407 5 0 53,849 11 6 58,229 3 0 64,294 4 4 76,579 1 8 91.687 11 1 104,425 3 0 116,845 10 4 125,108 4 1 613 5 2 5,014 9 2 7,746 16 7 10,008 3 6 12,294 1 2 15,477 16 2 16,881 8 6 17,613 4 0 18,581 11 7 19,961 i 2 18,571 7 8 19,155 11 5 21,771 4 4 21,552 12 10 25,933 12 9 1,170 16 0 6,809 8 8 7,028 7 4 10,008 3 6 13,997 0 0 15,477 16 2 16,881 8 6 17,613 4 0 18,581 11 7 19,961 4 2 18,571 7 8 19,155 11 5 21,771 4 4 22,621 0 0 25,933 12 9 285 0 0 595 0 0 695 0 0 1,770 0 0 2,849 1 3 2,873 0 0 3,119 10 0 3,315 10 0 3,790 0 0 4,192 0 0 4,630 0 0 7,405 0 0 7,720 0 0 9,285 0 0 9,686 0 10 275 0 0 595 0 0 770 0 0 1,590 0 0 1,704 0 0 1,580 10 0 2.252 0 0 2,249 7 0 2,206 10 0 2,249 18 5 2,345 2 9 2,695 19 10 3,313 1 1 4.253 11 4 5,303 11 9 253 0 0 827 0 0 1,560 0 0 2,346 0 0 3,731 19 2 4,068 12 2 4,940 14 6 5,344 9 2 5,823 0 1 6,429 8 5 7,658 7 11 9,168 15 1 10,442 10 4 11,684 11 0 12,510 16 5 150 0 0 963 0 0 300 0 0 2,317 0 0 350 0 0 1 3,375 0 0 475 0 0 6,181 0 0 700 0 0 8,985 0 5 320 0 0 8,842 2 2 330 0 0 10,642 4 6 335 0 0 11,244 6 2 375 0 0J 12,194 10 1 394 3 9| 13,265 10 7 393 1 6 15,026 12 2 464 6 2 19,734 1 1 741 18 9 22,217 10 2 817 19 5 26,041 1 9 1,952 8 3 29,452 17 3 i 207 16 0 4,492 8 8 3,653 7 4 3,827 3 6 5,011 19 7 6,635 14 0; 6,239 4 1 6,368 17 10 6,387 1 6 6,695 13 7 3,544 15 6 -578 9 8 -446 5 10 -3,420 1 9^ -3,519 4 6 8-17 54-31 23-41 16-31 13-42 16-30 12-63 11-82 11-00 10-43 4-63 Loss. Loss. Loss. Loss. * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-ana-tear, ana 5 per cent, for debenture capital.

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Table No. 21. Return of the Cost of Maintenance of Telegraph Lines for the Year ended 31st March, 1896.

Table No. 22. Statement showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1896.

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Section. No. of Miles. Travelling Expenses of Linemen and Inspectors. Extra Labour. Cost of Material used for Repairs. Salaries of Linemen and Inspectors. Total Cost of Maintenance. Eiverton to Balolutha Milton to Queenstown Balolutha to Waitaki Waitaki to Christohuroh Christchureh to Kumara Hokitika to Lyell Lyell to Nelson Nelson to Blenheim Blenheim to Kaikoura Kaikoura to Christchurch Wellington to New Plymouth .. Wellington to Napier Napier to Taupo Taupo to Thames Auckland South Auckland North P. and T. Stores P.s. "Terranora" and cable repairs 468J 422 574J 410j 157 271 307J 140 100J 266 598 504J 359 483 468 716 £ s. d. 247 19 1 311 7 11 458 16 10 201 13 10 410 10 4 114 15 1 170 10 2 218 13 8 118 10 2 194 18 3 376 15 4 404 15 11 157 13 3 252 10 5 322 5 10 317 1 5 £ s. d. 131 13 2 532 10 1 528 2 2 187 6 1 661 18 7 99 11 7 99 15 4 228 13 6 63 8 6 213 3 10 497 2 10 295 0 10 111 4 2 323 18 7 223 5 11 329 10 1 242 10 6 693 4 0 £ s. d. 178 6 6 372 9 3 717 0 4 225 9 10 393 15 7 115 0 7 63 14 5 177 5 4 64 9 4 89 9 5 990 14 8 663 13 4 90 9 4 93 13 8 351 5 10 295 2 10 8 16 £ s. d. 337 10 0 345 0 0 550 0 0 511 10 0 375 0 0 525 0 0 440 0 0 230 16 8 313 6 8 660 0 0 1,062 0 0 1,178 6 8 550 16 8 880 0 0 585 0 0 860 0 0 £ s. d. 895 8 9 1,561 7 3 2,253 19 4 1,125 19 9 1,841 4 6 854 7 3 773 19 11 855 9 2 559 14 8 1,157 11 6 2,926 12 10 2,541 16 9 910 3 5 1,550 2 8 1,481 17 7 1,801 14 i 250 12 0 699 10 9 6"6 9 Totals 6,245,| 4,283 4 3 5,461 19 9 4,890 1 9 9,404 6 8 24,041 12 5 6.245J tiles of line; average >ost per mile, 53 17s.

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Expenditure during the Year. Telephone exchanges ... ... Hamiltou-Morrinsville ... Awanui-Cape Maria van Diemen ... Ngunguru Wangarei-Kiripaka Dargaville-Opanaki Waihi-Waitekauri Auckland-Onehunga Wangarei-Poroti Taupiri-Huntly Driving Creek ... Napier-Pohui ... Wairoa-Nuhaka Postmaster's house, Waipawa Petane-Eskdale Danevirke-Mangatera ... Ormond-Waimata Valley Alton-Hurley ville Apiti extension Pohangina extension Bull's-Sanson Cardiff extension Waitotara-Maxwelltown Pahiatua-Eketahuna Feilding-Waituna West... Wanganui Racecourse ... Masterton-Pahiatua Tenui-Whakataki Pemberton extension Taita Bureau Cheltenham-Waituna ... Feilding-Bunnythorpe ... Oterangi Bay, No. 1 (land line) ... No. 2 £ S. d. 2,169 0 4 353 12 2 1,602 0 6 £ S. d. 6,093 13 5 68 18 5 314 2 7 48 11 2 £ s. d. 8,262 13 9 422 10 7 1,916 3 1 48 11 2 209 16 6 513 19 9 168 2 1 18 0 0 47 13 6 29 14 1 11 9 2 9 3 9 10 0 0 18 0 2 12 6 6 18 0 11 13 6 149 4 7 352 18 3 356 8 7 58 3 4 11 18 8 16 18 10 818 7 11 251 12 0 2 8 0 62 5 0 100 19 11 12 14 0 1 0 0 72 7 8 43 2 0 413 10 9 230 7 6 209 16 6 391 5 2 129 3 11 18 0 0 47 13 6 122 14 7 38 18 2 29 14 1 11 9 2 0 10 0 10 0 0 18 0 2 12 6 1 16 9 11 13 6 96 5 8 171 13 5 173 10 5 27 7 0 11 18 8 9 11 6 425 4 2 108 19 9 2 8 0 62 5 0 90 13 10 12 14 0 10 0 72 7 8 24 17 0 268 18 4 54 15 5 8 13 9 5" 1 3 52 18 11 181 4 10 182 18 2 30 16 4 7 7 4 393 3 9 142 12 3 10 6 1 18 5 0 144 12 5 175 12 1

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Table No. 22 — continued. Statement showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1896— continued.

Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not given; printing (1,800 copies), £55 12s.

Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—lB96.

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Expenditure during the Year. New copper wires,— Auckland-Paeroa Auckland-Taupo Taupo-Hastings Hutt-Hastings Blenheim-Kaikoura Kaikoura-Christchurch Cape Campbell Tinline Bridge Blenheim-White's Bay ... Blenheim-Port Underwood Koromiko-Tua marina fflaxbourne extension Nelson-Wakapuaka O'Gilvie's Hanmer Plains Hende's Perry Cass-Castlehill Cust-Bennett's Wainui extension Mayfield-Euapuna Tapanui-Crookston The Camp Cambrian's-Beck's Invercargill-Mataura Hyde-Eock and Pillar ... Hyde-Albertown Eweburn Wedderburn Closeburn £ s. d. 197 3 5 90 15 1 450 11 11 272 18 3 14 14 11 2 7 3 142 14 8 79 2 6 138 16 9 36 8 9 23 13 6 25 17 0 2 13 6 90 2 2 £ s. d. 619 8 3 969 16 6 787 7 1 973 10 10 65 8 10 167 2 8 20 10 1 78 10 0 20 14 8 103 18 8 9 5 11 £ s. d. 816 11 8 1,060 11 7 787 7 1 1,424 2 9 338 7 1 181 17 7 2 7 3 142 14 8 99 12 7 217 6 9 36 8 9 44 8 2 129 15 8 11 19 5 90 2 2 12 9 5 8 0 0 30 8 5 65 1 0 14 0 93 19 7 14 19 10 83 16 9 18 12 9 57 16 2 12 6 10 15 7 6 15 7 6 7 16 4 13 1 4 264 19 9 52 6 10 49 6 11 8 0 0 11 3 4 65 1 0 14 0 93 19 7 14 19 10 83 16 9 18 12 9 19 12 4 5 3 6 15 7 6 15 7 6 2 4 0 6 4 3 200 9 10 6 17 49 6 11 12 9 5 19" 5 1 38 3 10 7 3 4 Luggate Lumsden-Balfour Mataura-Gore Orepuki-Puysegur Survey 5 12 4 6 17 1 64 9 11 46 5 3 Cook Strait cable, Oterangi Bay, No. 1 No. 2 Purchase 32-knots cable... 8,749 16 2 1,584 5 10 859 15 2 4,203 11 3 12,086 4 4 20,836 0 6 1,584 5 10 859 15 2 4,203 11 3 Purchase material, &c. ... 15,397 20,140 8 6 5 9 27,483 12 9 Total expenditure to 31st March, 1895 35,537 15 699,021 17 2 9 Total cost of lines during 1895-96 Total expenditure out of Public Works Fund to 31st March, 1896 £734,559 12 11 £27,483 12 9