POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT (REPORT OF THE) FOR THE YEAR 1908-9.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1909 Session II, F-01

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1909. NEW ZEALAND.

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT (REPORT OF THE) FOR THE YEAR 1908-9.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency. General Post Office, Wellington, 2nd October, 1909. My Lord, — I have the honour to submit to Your Excellency the report of the Post and Telegraph Department for the year 1908-9, and in doing so to offer the following remarks : — From a departmental point of view the year has been a most prosperous and successful one. An increase has been experienced in almost every class of business, accompanied by an increased revenue. In one item alone lias the revenue fallen below that of the previous year : it has not yet had time to recover from the marked redaction of 50 per cent, made in the money-order and postal-note commission on the Ist January, HKIB. That item has, however, reached 76 per cent, of last year's, and will no doubt easily recover itself in the same manner as did stamps after penny postage was introduced. The revenue has more than doubled in the past ten years, having risen from 6445,770 to £913,995. The expenditure has increased from £390,197 to £807,652. The balance of revenue over expenditure, which in 1898-99 was £56,573, stands this year at £106,342. These results are altogether satisfactory ; yet, with a revenue frequently affected by reduced charges to the public, any bald comparison between revenue and expenditure is misleading. Of necessity the expenditure in such a service as the Post and Telegraph must, unless the rates remain fixed, bear a closer relationship to the volume of business than to the value thereof, for the increase in work is proportionately greater than the increase in revenue. It should suffice, if the public is being well served, that the Department is paying its way. The expenditure has by no means kept pace with the increased volume of business. -There is always a limit where the expansion of business cannot further be undertaken without increased staff. Such has been the case last year, and, in all, 321 officers have been added to the permanent classified staff. Notwithstanding this, the percentage of increase in salaries of permanent officers is only 0-62 higher than the percentage of increase in revenue, the relative figures being— salaries 11-73, and revenue 11-11 percent. The main increase in expenditure is due to the higher cost of conveyance of mails by railway, and the heavier charges against the Mails by Sea and Miscellaneous votes. The principal sources of revenue —viz., stamps, telegrams, and telephone receipts- have all contributed well towards the £91,350 by which the revenue exceeds that of last year. Since i lie close of the year the administration of the old-age pensions has been transferred to the Post Office. The change h s been effected so quietly and completely that it has passed almost unnoticed. Only half the number of officers formerly required to administer the office are now employed, and the work is being performed efficiently and effectively. A word of praise is due to those who so capably carried out my wishes in the matter of this amalgamation. The Secretary of the Department has during the year paid a visit to England, the Continent of Europe, and America. As a result of his investigations a series of important suggestions for the more efficient conduct of the service is now before me. Its adoption will not only bring about desired reforms, but also lead to a considerable saving in the cost of administration. I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your most obedient servant, J. G. WARD, His Excellency the Governor, Wellington. Postmaster-General. i—F. 1.

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Revenue and Expenditure.

The revenue and expenditure of the Department for the financial year 1908-9 are shown in the following table: —

The total revenue exceeded that of 1907-8 by £91,355 Bs. 5d., and the expenditure exceeded the expenditure of 1907-8 by £98,627 13s. Bd. Postal matter posted in New Zealand anil received from abroad during the year reached a total of 89,089,871 letters, 7,643,831 post-cards, 47,420,009 other articles, and 930,267 parcels. The number of parcels insured during the year was 1.731, valued at £34,676 12s. lid., upon which premiums amounting to £63 3s. Bd. were received. 488,084 money-orders, for £2,050,684 6s. 10d., were issued, and 371,424, for £1,747,670 19s. Id. paid. The increase in the number of orders issued as compared with last year was 46,597. The postal-note business continues to increase. During the year 1.222,280 postal notes, of the value of £389,143, were sold, being an increase of 11-87 per cent, in number and 12-05 in amount as compared with the preceding year. The number of British postal orders sold increased from 36,600, for £19,564 125., to 44,877, valued at £24,178 ss. 6d., and 14,801 orders, for £10,264 19s. 6d., were paid, as against 12,238, for £8,533 195., paid during the previous year. The Savings-bank deposits (£9,674,075 45.) exceeded the withdrawals (£9,417,820 10s. 3d.) by £256,254 13s. 9d. There has been added £379,808 6s. 7d. as interest, making a total increase of £636,063 os. 4d., and bringing the whole amount at credit up to £12,159,293 18s. Id., a sum which equals £12 Is. 2d. per head of the population. The number of old-age-pension payments was 164,633, as compared with 158,782 in the previous year, the respective amount, being £336,813 Is. and £325,220 13s. 2d. The total number of telegrams forwarded was 7,425,693, an increase of 382,770, or 5-43 per cent., over the business of the previous year. The number of bureau communications shows a marked increase, being 1,423,093, as against 1,210,174. The amount expended on telegraph-extension was £163,033, with liabilities amounting to £68,837 on account of works for which the authority of Parliament was granted too late for the necessary expenditure to be brought within the financial year. On the 31st March, 1909, there were 10,404 miles of telegraph-line and 32,654 miles of wire. The length of submarine cables within the Dominion was 368 knots. The number of telephone-exchange, connections still continues to increase rapidly. It has now reached 26,833.

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Item. Postal. Telegraph. Total. Receipts. £ s. d. 480,958 8 0J 18,586 7 5 644 2 3 10,583 16 0 33,869 6 6 £ s. d. £ s. d. 480,958 8 0J 18,586 7 5 644 2 3 10,583 16 0 38,456 12 7 233,516 10 4 131,249 0 7 Stamps for postage Money-order and postal-note commission Money-order commission received from foreign offices Private box and bag fees Miscellaneous receipts Paid telegrams Telephone exchanges 4,587 6 1 233,516 10 4 131,249 0 7 Balance of expenditure over revenue 544,642 0 2J 369,352 17 0 25,297 2 6 913,994 17 24 Totals 544,642 0 2. 394,649 19 6 913,994 17 2J Expenditure. Salaries (classified offioers) .. ..... Salaries (country Postmasters and telephonists, and contributions to Railway officers) Conveyance of mails by sea Conveyance of inland mails Conveyance of mails by railway Money-order commission credited to foreign offices Maintenance of telegraph-lines Miscellaneous £ a. d. 156,118 14 7 20,880 15 0 55,682 2 10 60,171 18 9 57,825 10 1 2,114 16 5 £ s. d. 258,260 6 4 34,801 5 0 £ s. d. 414,379 0 11 55,682 0 0 55,682 2 10 60,171 18 9 57,825 10 1 2,114 16 5 40,900 8 11 120,896 11 11 60,20812 8 40,900 8 11 60,687 19 3 Balance of revenue over expenditure (Postal) (whole Department) 413,002 10 4 131,639 9 10$ 394,649 19 6 807,652 9 10 106,342* 7 4J Totals 544,642 0 2J 394,G49 19 6 913,994 17 2J

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Statement showing Revenue and Expenditure of the Post and Telegraph Department for the Ten Years ended 31st March, 1909, and for the Years 1881-82 and 1891-92.

Personal. Mr. D. Robertson, Secretary of the Department, left for a six-months visit to Europe on the 22nd December, 1908. During his absence the position of Acting-Secretary was filled by Mr. W. R. Morris, Assistant Secretary and Inspector. Staff. The title of " Inspector of Telegraphs " has been altered to " Telegraph Engineer," as being more in keeping with the duties performed. Several minor changes have also been made in the titles of clerical officers. Comparative Return of Officers of the Post and Telegraph Department for the Years ended 31st March, 1908, and 31st March, 1909. The total number of officers on the staff on the 31st March, 1908 and 1909, was as under:— 31st March, 31st March, 1908. 1909. Postmaster-General ... ... ... 1 1 Classified staff, — First Division ... ... ... ... ... 3 3 Clerical Division ... ... ... ... ... 2,158 2,441 Non-clerical Division .. ... ... ... 912 952 Telegraph message-boys ... .. ... ... 704 702 Total, classified staff ... ... ... 3,778 4,099 Employees not on permanent staff, — Country Postmasters and Postmistresses ... ... 2,034 2,064 Night-watchmen ... ... ... ... ... 1 3 Mail-cart drivers ... ... ... ... ... 8 2 Postmasters and telegraphists or telephonists who are Railway officers ... ... ... 178 190 Total ... ... ... ... 5,999 6,358 Health of Staff. The following table gives the average absence of officers on sick-leave at the principal offices : —

Nine officers died during the year.

Year. Revenue. Expenditure. Balance of Revenue over Expenditure. .881-82 £ 234,529 s. d. 8 0 £ s. 233,291 10 d. 4 £ s. d. 1,237 17 8 1891-92 320,058 1 3 268,343 1 1 51,715 0 2 1899-1900 1900-1901 1901-1902 1902-1903 1903-1904 1904-1905 1905-1906 1906-1907 1907-1908 1908-1909 488,245 16 4 503,835 19 5hJ 488,573 1 11£ 525,098 17 3* 580,771 4 51 633,305 12 7J 684,878 11 2 746,249 16 0J 822,639' 8 9+ 913,994 17 2| 390,448 1 7 418,271 16 11 465,756 9 5 487,814 10 0 526,746 14 5 559,921 1 5 578,726 11 7 619,121 0 9 709,024 16 2 807,652 9 10 97,797 14 85,564 2 22,816 12 37,284 7 54,024 10 73,384 11 106,151 19 127,128 15 113,614 12 106,342 7 9 6_ 6_ 3. 0* 2_ 7 3_ 7* Total for ten years £824,109 13 3

L, , . , Average Absence per Numbers comprised. Bi ° ck office _ * Average absence for each Officer employed. Men ... Women ... 1,979 350 Days. 9-91 2303 Days. 5-49 17-11

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i ' i,.ossification. Classification Regulations 11 and 12 provide for a minimum payment of £130 per annum to married employees. An officer in receipt of a salary between £130 and £150 al the time of Ins marriage receives an additional £10 per annum until his salary reaches £150. Since the 14th May, 1908, the date of the regulations, 41 officers have qualified for the special payment by marrying, while 189 officers who had married before the introduction of the regulations have also participated in the allowance. Classification Regulation 14, (_,) governing t lie admission of women to the Department, was amended on the 29th January, 1909, to permit of the appointment of assistants and counterwomen at any age not less than twenty years or more than forty-five years. Departmental Classes. Departmental classes have been established at Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington, in order that officers of the Department may be given every facility for qualifying for passes in the Sixth Standard and the Civil Service Junior and Senior Examinations, and for the purpose of imparting instruction in technical subjects with a view to assisting officers to pass the departmental technical examinations. The various classes are being well attended, and, it is hoped, will prove of benefit to officers. Appeal Board. The departmental Appeal Board sat from the 9th to the 14th April, 1908. The main feature of the appeals was the claiming by officers of additional seniority for service during past years. Ten appeals from nine officers were considered : in one case the Board decided that it had no jurisdiction ; in three cases the appeals were not sustained, and in the remaining six the Board made various recommendations. Three appeals were referred back to the Board, as the acts appealed against occurred at a period exceeding fifteen months before the respective dates of the appeals. A further meeting of the Board was held on the 19th September, 1908, when the Board confirmed its former decisions. In five cases the recommendations of the Board were carried out as far as practicable. During the year Mr. F. G. B. Waldegrave, Under-Secretary for Justice, resigned his position as Chairman of the Board, and Mr. J. W. Poynton, Public Trustee, was appointed to the vacancy. Messrs. Lewis Anderson and W. R. Thompson were elected to the Board unopposed on the 13th January, 1909, as Postal and Telegraph representatives, respectively, for the ensuing two years. Superannuation. Messrs. H. A. R. Huggins, Assistant Controller of Money-orders and Savings-banks and Assistant Accountant, and W. McNickle, Postmaster, Bull's, were elected to the Public Service Superannuation Board on the 6th July, 1908, as the representatives of contributors from the Post and Telegraph Department. By Order in Council published on the 12th November, 1908, telegraph message-boys were exempted from the provisions of Part II of " The Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act, 1908." Post Office. Eighty-eight post-offices were established (of these, 9 were reopened offices) and 19 closed. The number of post-offices open at the end of the year was 2,133. The names of 19 offices were changed to meet altered circumstances, or to agree more nearly with local designations. The Post Office receipts for the year amounted to £544,642 os. 2Jd., an increase of 13-85 per cent. The expenditure was £413,002 10s. 4d., an increase of 17-52 per cent. The balance of postal revenue over expenditure was £131,639 9s. 10|d. The number of articles delivered in the Dominion, including those received from places outside, during the year 1908, as compared with the number in 1907, was as under:— 1908. 1907. Increase. Letters and letter-cards .. 89,089,871 80,218,229 8.871,642 Post-cards .. .. .. 7,643,831 6,457,750 1,186,081 Other articles .. .. 47,420,009 42,408,899 5.011,110 Totals .. .. 144,153,711 129,084,878 15,068,833 Parcels ... .. .. 930,267 776,528 153,739 The letters and letter-cards increased 11-06, post-cards 18-37, other articles 11-82, and parcels 19-80 per cent. In 1907 letters increased 8-01, letter-cards 7-84, post-cards 16-04, newspapers 717, other printed matter and pattern-packets decreased 0-47, and panels increased 81-57 per cent. The average number of letters and letter-cards posted per head of population was estimated to be 91-37. The average in 1907 was 86-46. The statistics published by the Universal Postal Union show that New Zealand exceeds all other countries in the number of letters and post-cards handled, with 97-1 per head of population ; other countries having a high percentage are: Victoria, 929; Western Australia, 92 - 6; United States of America, 89 - 2, New South Wales, 87-5; Switzerland, 84 - 8; Tasmania, 80"1 ; Great Britain, 675.

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The correspondence of 83 persons or firms has been prohibited transmission under section 28 of " The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908." Money-orders may not be issued in favour of such persons or firms. In future, all " unclaimed" articles which have no intrinsic value, such as tracts, circulars, &c, will be destroyed on receipt at the Dead Letter Office. Experience has shown that, if articles of no value are not claimed wit Inn one niont In t hey are never applied for. Lead seals arc now used on the travelling post-offices, instead of wax. There are eight motor-power, six foot-power, and twenty hand-power postmarking-machines in use in the Dominion. The visit of the U.S.A. fleet to Auckland from the 9th to the 15th August, 1908, entailed a considerable increase of work on the Department, especially at Auckland and Rotorua. Additional officers were drafted to Auckland from other centres, and a quadruple, telegraph-set was installed at Rotorua. A post-office, a money-order office, and a telephone-office open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily were established at Quay Street, Auckland. The Pacific cable shared in the increased traffic, the number of Press words transmitted on the day of the fleet's arrival being 13,726. Mails for the war-ships were delivered free to the various vessels three times daily by steam-launch. From the Ist January, 1909, "call-boxes" were instituted. These are fitted with glass fronts through which the holder may see whether any letters are within. By renting a call-box a person within a letter-carrier's delivery may, by ealbng at the post-office, obtain mail-matter addressed to him which may arrive between two deliveries. Should he not call between the period of one letter-carrier's delivery and another, the letters are taken from the call-box and delivered by carrier in the ordinary way. The rent for a call-box is«2s. 6d. per annum. The system is proving a success. At one office alone 38 boxes are in use, and it is expected that the number will soon lie increased. From the Ist January, 1909. the charge for private letter-boxes where no letter-carrier's delivery exists was reduced from £1 to 10s. per annum. Departmental offices are regularly disinfected. Dry dusting and dry sweeping have been forbidden. From the Ist May, 1908, first- and second-grade post-offices have issued their own receipts for delivered registered correspondence, as is done at chief post-offices. A motor-van of 18-horse power and a maximum speed of twenty miles an hour, made to the order of the Department, was brought into use in Wellington on the 6th July, 1908. The car is specially designed for the delivery of parcels, the collection of mail-matter from posting-boxes, and the carriage of hampers. The car is the first to be used by the Department for the purpose. A second van was purchased in February, 1909. This car, which is fitted with a 24-horse-power double-cylinder engine, will be able to take with ease the steepest grades in the city and suburbs. A magazine (registered) post was established with Fiji from the 27th July, 1908. On the Ist September, 1908, the hours of public postal attendance at the four principal centres were extended from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. During the extended hours all post-office business, except money-order and savings-bank and the delivery of correspondence to persons whose letters are usually delivered by letter-carrier, is transacted. In order to prevent the posting of large newspapers and packets in posting-boxes, in many cases blocking the entrance, instructions were given that in future the apertures were to be limited to 1 in. in depth. Twenty-three newspapers were registered for transmission by post, and 19 were removed from the register. The declared value of parcels received from places outside the Dominion in 1908 was £323,481, as against £310,219 in 1907. The Customs duty collected amounted to £62,194 7s. 3d. The declared value or parcels despatched to places beyond the Dominion was £37,109, as against £27,395 in 1907. The post-office opened at King Edward VII Land on the 2nd January, 1908, by Lieutenant E. H. Shackleton, of the Antarctic Expedition, was closed on the 4th March, 1909. Nineteen new letter-carrier deliveries were established. Deliveries were extended in 23, and increased in frequency in 15 places. One hundred and eight receiving-boxes were established, and five closed. I'knnv PoSTASB. Penny postage is rapidly gaining .round. On the Ist October, 1908. penny postage was established between the United States and Great Britain, and on the Ist January, 1909, between Germany and the United States. The Postmaster-General of Great Britain was also urged to establish the system between Great Britain and France : lint, while expressing sympathy with the idea, was unable to accede to the request on financial considerations. The French Tost and Telegraph Commission, in a report to the Chamber of Deputies, also recommended tin- establishment of penny postage with Great Britain. The significance of these facts cannof We overestimated. Hitherto penny postage had been considered possible only between communities politically connected, such as countries and their colonies ; and the fact of its establishment between countries so far politically separated as the United States and France, Great Britain and Germany, proves that its importance as a factor in the development of social, political, and commercial intercourse is being fully realised. The financial results of these experiments will lie watched with interest, for upon them all depend to a large extent the chances of the adoption of penny postage by other countries at the next Postal Congress.

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Postaoe-stamps, f.ic. Booklets of official penny stamps, each containing ten shillings' worth, have been for sale to Government officers since the 16th June, 1908, at 10s. Id. each. Registered-letter envelopes of medium size, with a die showing the King's head, were issued on the 28th July. A new issue of penny embossed envelopes for business and social correspondence was made in November, 1908. Each class of envelope is sold at the rate of eleven for Is., or five for 6d. From the Ist April, 1909, the price of halfpenny embossed envelopes was reduced from 7£d. per dozen to 6d. for ten envelopes. A new letter-card, of plainer design than the previous issue, was brought into use on the 28th August, 1908. From December, 1908, penny postage-stamps were printed by what is known as surface printing from new plates. The stamp from the impressions is as nearly as possible like the stamp previously in use. A new issue of Kings-head postage-stamps t is to be made. The colours will be the same as previously, except that the fourpenny stamp will be yellow. Ocean Mail-services. Suez Service. The arrangement made with the Union Steam Ship Company for despatching a steamer every Friday from Wellington to make a close connection with the outward Suez mail at Sydney lapsed on the 26th July, 1908, but was renewed for another period of two years from that date, at a subsidy of £15,000 per annum, the agreement being terminable at the end of the first year at the option either of the Department or of the company. It was considered necessary, however, to include a penalty clause in the agreement, providing for the deduction of half of the amount of subsidy due for any particular voyage in the event of the steamer failing to make the connection at Sydney with the outward mail-train for Adelaide. In order to enable mails from the north by the Main Trunk line to connect with the Sydney steamer at Wellington, the departure of the latter was fixed at 5 p.m. on Fridays from the 19th February, 1909. Payments on Account of the Peninsular and Oriental, and Orient, Mail-service during the Year, 1908-9. Payment to Peninsular and Oriental, and Orient lines .. .. .. 11,003 Transit charges across Australia and Europe .. .. .. 1,550 Mail-service to Australia . . .. .. .. .. .. 14,712 £27,265 The maximum, minimum, and average number of days within which the mails were delivered at and from London, and Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin. and Bluff, by the Peninsular and Oriental and Orient lines, was, — P. and O. Line. Orient Line. Max. Mm. Average. Max. Mm. Average. London to Auckland .. .. 39 37 37-31 43 37 37 54 Auckland to London .. .. 41 37 37-54 44 39 40-81 London to Wellington .. .. 40 38 38-73 41 38 38-81 Wellington to London .. .. 37 35 35-5 40 37 37-96 London to Dunedin .. ..41 37 38-62 40 37 38-50 Dunedin to London .. .. 38 36 36-5 41 38 38-96 London to Bluff .. .. .. 40 37 38-12 39 37 38-00 " Bluff to London (direct) .. ..41 39 39-54 44 41 41-92 San Francisco Service. As announced in Parliament last session, arrangements were made with the Union Steam Ship Company (Limited) in October, 1908, for a mail-service between Wellington and Papeete (Tahiti), calling at Rarotonga, Cook Islands, on both outward and inward voyages. A connection is made at Tahiti with the mail-steamers of the J. D. Sprockets and Bros. Company, sailing between Tahiti and San Francisco, thus establishing a twenty-four-days service between Wellington and San Francisco and a thirty-five- or thirty-six-days service with the United Kingdom. The subsidy for the Tahiti service is £7,000 per annum, half of which, however, is charged against the Industries and Commerce Department. The duration of the agreement is for one year from the 3rd January. 1909, during which time ten voyages will be run at intervals of about thirty-six days. The first outward mail under this agreement left Wellington by the s.s. " Manapouri" on the 3rd January, connecting at Papeete with the s.s. " Mariposa," the mails arriving in London on the Bth February, 1909. The s.s. " Aeon," which left San Francisco on the 6th July, 1908, for Auckland, with English and American mails on board, was totally wrecked on Christmas Island on the 18th idem. The news was forwarded from Fanning Island, and the s.s. " Manuka," sailing from Vancouver on the 11th September, was instructed by cable to pick up the passengers and mails from the wrecked vessel. The s.s. " Indravelli " was detained at Suva until the Ist October to wait for the " Manuka " and the New Zealand portion of the mails transhipped to her, reaching Auckland on the 6th October. All the mail is believed to have been accounted for.

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The Australasian agents of the Australian Mail Line offered to arrange for their steamers to call at Wellington or Auckland on the voyage from Sydney to San Francisco, but the offer was not accepted. Vancouver Service. A Press telegram from Ottawa stated that the following resolution was carried in the Canadian House of Commons on the 9th July. 1908: " That it is desirable with all convenient speed to take steps to carry into effect the Imperial Conference's decision regarding the ' All-red Route,' and that this House affirms Canada's willingness to assume a fair share of the burden, and hopes that Australia and New Zealand will co-operate with Canada in arranging a definite plan." The question is receiving the close attention of the New Zealand Government. The Commonwealth Administration announces that it has agreed to the extension of the present Canadian-Australian mail contract on the existing terms and conditions for one year from the 31st July. 1909. The Suva office now notifies this Department by cable of the arrival of the inward Vancouver steamer, to permit of detention at Suva of the Union Company's steamer for New Zealand if necessary. Miscellaneous. Owing to the Commonwealth now being regarded as a single State under the Rome Postal Union Convention, no charges have been made since the Ist January. 1908. for maritime or territorial transit on mails from New Zealand to any Australian State — i.e., sea transit from Adelaide or Melbourne to Western Australia, and from Melbourne to Tasmania; and land transit through New South Wales or South Australia for mails to Western Australia is free. Inland Mails. The number of contracts for inland mail-services in operation on the 31st December, 1908, was 687. There were in addition 597 services not under bond. The sum paid to the Railway Department for the conveyance of mails by ordinary trains was £46,699. The last rail for the North Island Main Trunk Railway was laid on the 3rd August, 1908, and the first through trip was made on the 7th August, 1908, the train leaving Wellington at 10 p.m., and reaching Auckland at 6.30 p.m. on the Bth ; the journey thus occupying 20J hours. Owing, however, to certain portions of the permanent-way still requiring ballasting, the line was not open for regular service till the 9th November, 1908, when a regular two-days service was inaugurated, the journey being broken at Ohakune. Mails, however, still continued to be despatched between Auckland and Wellington via New Plymouth; but on the inauguration of a daily express service on the 14th February, 1909, the Main Trunk route was utilised for the conveyance of mails, as furnishing a quicker and surer despatch. The daily express now leaves Auckland at 9.15 p.m., arriving in Wellington at 4.25 p.m. on the following day: while the Wellington express leaves at 11.45 a.m.. and reaches Auckland at <i.r>B a.m. of the following day. A firm performing a city mail contract which had not paid the contract amount to two of its mailout drivers was required by the Department to make good the arrears of wages due to the men. The weight of mail-matter carried between Glade House and Milford Sound at any one time has been limited to 101b. This is because the travelling <>i route is possible for foot traffic only. In July, 1908, several of the mail services in the Otago, Canterbury, Wairarapa, and Manawatu districts were interrupted owing to floods. In the Otago Central district a heavy fall of snow prevented the mail-coaches from running, and mails in some instances were conveyed by pack-horse. The Poxton-to-Shannon coach got off the road, and one bag of mail, containing three or four ordinary letters, was lost, but was recovered eight mouths later, and the letters duly delivered. ■ The Motueka-Nelson mail-coach missed the approach to Appleby Bridge on the 22nd September, 1908. and was surrounded by the flood-water and abandoned. The mails were subsequently recovered. The s.s. "Penguin," from Nelson and I'icton for Wellington, was totally wrecked near Cape Te Rawhiti on the 12th February, 1909, with disastrous loss of life. Two Postal officers were immediately despatched to look after the mail, which consisted of twenty-four bags and two hampers. A lineman and a telegraphist were also sent to Oterangi Bay to open a temporary office at the cable-hut there. Owing to the uncertainty as to the exact position of the wreck, there is no hope of recovering the mails. Owing to fire at the Millerton Coal-mine the mail-services between Granity and the Millerton Brake-head and between Granity and Mine Creek were temporarily discontinued from the 27th February, 19<H). Arrangements were made to carry on the Granity-Millerton service by road. Dead and Missing Letters. The undermentioned articles of value were found in letters opened in the Dead Letter Office, and returned to senders where practicable : <>'•*'.> post-office orders, £1,400 3s. 7d. ; 60 bank drafts, £5,019 9s. ; 510 cheques, £3,493 7s. IOAd. ; 37 dividend-warrants, £115 12s. sd. ; 13 promissory notes, £294 2s. 4d. ; postal notes, £320 7s. 6d. ; British postal orders, £56 12s. 6d. ; stamps, £46 15s. Id. ; banknotes, £374 Bs. 4d. ; gold, £50 10s. ; silver and copper, £18 ss. s£d. ; representing a total of £11,189 14s. Id. Amongst other things, there were dealt with 5 gold, 12 silver, and 11 metal watches, 19 gold rings, 23 gold and other brooches, 10 greenstone pendants. 11 watch-chains, 11 gold tie-pins,2 pairs of gold sleeve-links, 1 gold bangle. I pair of gold-mounted eye-glasses, 1 pair of carver-rests, 1 greenstone tiki,

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1 jewelled gold stud, 1 silver and greenstone bread-fork, 3 silver medals, 11 silver serviette-rings, 1 silver shoe-horn, 1 pearl card-case, 1 tusk, 1 piece of greenstone, Pshark's tooth, 1 Royal Geographical Society's medal for Antarctic discovery 1902-4, l*jKing's medal for Antarctic discovery 1902-4, 1 New Zealand war medal,"-! set of artificial teeth, 1 mine-manager's certificate, 5 pawn-tickets, 6 sharecertificates, 3 miners' rights, 1 certificate of title, 1 return-passage order (Liverpool to Lyttelton), 3 lottery-tickets, and 11 Tattersall tickets. The proportion of dead or unclaimed letters, letter-cards, and post-cards to the total number handled within the Dominion was 0-42 per cent. 46,744 other articles were returned to foreign countries ; 18,720 were returned to senders through the Dead Letter Office ; 210.247 were returned by Chief Postmasters : a total of 269,621 book-packets and circulars, as compared with 267,500 in 1907. 11,911 letters were wrongly addressed; 30 letters were discovered to have been posted with previously used stamps ; 4,978 unclaimed registered letters were dealt with. v t 4,720 newspapers and 3,023 books and other articles without addresses were received, many of which were subsequently applied for and delivered. 29,436 newspapers were returned to the publishers. 2,531 letters were'posted without addresses. Fifty-eight letters with libellous addresses were intercepted. 1,513 inquiries for letters and 1,054 for other articdes alleged to have been posted and not delivered were made during 1908. In 750 of the inquiries for letters and 694 for other articles—over one-half tin- total number- tin- investigations by the Department resulted in the missing articles being traced or accounted for. These may be summarised as follows : — Number of Traced Cases. Letters. Other Articles. Pound to have been 70 42 ... Delayed in delivery through fault of addressees. 38 10 ... Not posted. 16 24 ... Posted later than stated ; forwarded by slower routes than letters of advice, &c. 119 78 ... Defectively or wrongly addressed. 88 26 ... Mislaid or lost after delivery. 60 22 ... Returned through Dead Letter Office as unclaimed, &c. 278 318 ... Delivered. Reason for inquiry not given, but probably in most cases omission by addressees to acknowledge receipt. 81 74 ... Missent, inisdelivered, or otherwise delayed through fault of Post Office. 750 594 As illustrating how the Department is often blamed wrongfully for the loss of articles passing through the Post Office, it may lie mentioned that a postal packet containing six watches was wrongly delivered at a boardinghouse. Owing to the address being.so badly written it was believed to be intended for a person who resided there. Whilst the packet was awaiting disposal at tin- boardinghouse, a friend of the supposed addressee noticed it and readdressed it to him. and it was only when the article was passing through the Post Office a second time that the rightful owner was identified and delivery effected after a delay of about five months. A letler. unregistered, from Christchurch to Wellington, containing 1425 in bank-notes, was discovered open in the post. A case occurred at Palmerston on the 25th June, 1908, of the abstraction of a letter from the post in. box by a starling. The occurrence was witnessed by a passer-by. Another similar case was reported from Palmerston North, where, to prevent future depredations, a hinged Hap was fixed to the aperture of the box. Offences. On a charge of forging a receipt for a money -order for £40 on the Ith August, 1908, a man was sentenced at Wellington to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard Labour. For sending an indecent postcard through the post on the 17th August, I'.IOS. a man was fined £5. The Post-office, Mount Roskill, which is conducted in a store, was robbed on the 21st August, 1908. A person charged ii Dunedin on the 12th September, 1908. with forging and uttering the name of a depositor to a Post-Office Savings-bank withdrawal receipt for £88 was convicted, and admitted to probation for twelve months. A man was convicted at Auckland on the 21th September. 1908. of the theft of a bag of mail for Taupiri. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment. On a charge of signing false telegrams on the Bth and 9th October. 1908, asking for money to be remitted, and also on a charge of obtaining payment on the 21st idem of two money-order telegrams of £3 and £1, by forging the name of the real payee,a man was sentenced at Auckland to two years' imprisonment. On the 2nd November, 1908, two lads were convicted at Palmerston North for interfering with posting-boxes at Longburn. On the charge of forging a telegram asking for a remittance of money, a man was sentenced at Dunedin on the 21st December, 1908. to six months' imprisonment. |ftj (In theTjlOth January. 1909. two boys were fined for putting objectionable matter into a letterbox at Dunedin.

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The safe in the Parcels Branch, C.P.0., Wellington, was opened on the 10th January, 1909, and £100 in coin and parcels to the value of £40, besides a number of cancelled bank-notes, stolen. A young man arrested at Wellington on the 24th April was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the crime. Buildings. Contracts have been let for buildings at Epsom, Maungaturoto, Nuhaka, St. Bathan's, Waipiro Bay (quarters), and W eraroa ; and for additions to the office at Stratford. Sites have been purchased at Krankton Junction, Foxton, Greenmeadows, Huntly, Kingsland, N'garuewahia. Ongaonga. I'apatoetoe. I'ukekohe. Renmera. South Dunedin. Takapuna. Taradale, Te Karaka, and Whitianga. During the year buildings were erected a! Apiti, Birkenhead. Cambridge, Clevedon, Devonport, Faiilie. Featherston, Foxton, Geraldine, Huntly, Howick. Kaipara Flats, Kckerangu. Kimbolton, Matakohe. Mokotua, Morrinsville, Newmarket, Otorohun.a, Port Awanui, Ohakune, Ophir, Pukekohe, Richmond, Taiiniarunui, Te Aro, Te Kuiti, Tolags Bay, Toko, Utiku, Upper Hutt, Wallsend, and Woolston. General repairs, additions, &<-.. were carried out during the year at the following offices : Aratapu, Ashburton, Auckland, Blenheim. Cheviot. Christchurch. Denniston, Eketahuna. Greytown, Gisborne, Hamilton, Hokitika. Kaikoura, Kihikihi, Eumara, Mangaweka, Manakau, Moleeworth Street. Molesworth Street Staliles. Napier. Nelson, Oainaru. Ohakune. Onehunga. Patea. Palmerston North, Port Albert. Rakaia. Keefton. Rough Ridge, Sumner, .Waihi, Whakataki. and Wellington. Plans for the new post-office at Auckland were prepared, and tenders invited, but declined. Amended plans have since been prepared, and a tender accepted for the work. The erection of Unbuilding has been commenced. * Plans have been prepared for buildings at Mount Roskill and Warkworth. A fumigating-shed was erected on the Hobson Street Wharf. Auckland. Properties were purchased and altered to suit the requirements of the Department at Burnett's Face, High Street (Christchurch). Moray Place (Dunedin). and Upper Symonds Street (Auckland). The old building at Hastings has been removed, and the erection of a new building commenced. A public chiniing-clock. towards the cost of which the residents contributed £300, was erected in the Post-office building at Cambridge. In July, 1908, tenders were invited for the erection of the General Post Office building at Wellington. It was estimated that the cost would be about £80,000 ; but. as the lowest tender exceeded this by some £20,000, it was decided not to accept any tender. On the 10th March, 1909, the Public Works Department made a start with the foundations, the cost of which is estimated at about £8,000. The following post-offices, not in departmental buildings, were destroyed by lire : Dverville, Glenore, Kerepehi, Leithfield, Mackaytown, Pareora East, Takahue, Towai, Waimaru, Walton. Wliananaki, and \\ r hangapoua. The railway-station post-office at Fairlie was burned down on the 9th August, 1908. The business was carried on in temporary premises, which were also destroyed by fire on the 20th September following. The Bull's Post and Telegraph Office, built in 1906, was destroyed by fire early in the morning of the 19th March, 1909. Temporary premises were secured opposite the burnt building, and all Post and Telegraph business resumed at 9 a.m. of the same day. Money-orders. During the year there were 34 money-order offices opened and 3 closed, the number remaining open at the end of the year being 610. 488,084 money-orders were issued, for £2,050,684 (is. lOd., as compared with 441,487, for £1,773,590 17s. Id., for the previous year —an increase of 46,597 in number and £277.093 9s. 9d. in amount. 371,424 money-orders, amounting to £1,747,670 19s. Id., were paid, as against 337,791, for £1,523,907 17s. 4d., during 1907—an increase of 33,633 orders and £223.763 Is. '.Id. in amount. 149,332 orders for £438,716 Is. lid., were issued in places beyond New Zealand. 32,856 orders, for £139,000 4s. 2d., were issued in places beyond New Zealand for payment in the Dominion. The commission received for money-orders amounted to £12,555 10s. 3d., as against £18,846 12s. 6d. for 1907. The decrease of £6,291 2s. 3d., is due to the reduction of the commission charges on the Ist January, 1908, by 50 per cent. The business is, however, steadily increasing and the revenue recovering. During the year the. system of advice of payment of money-orders has been extended to include the German Empire, British and French India, and Straits Settlements. Arrangements have been made for the exchange of money orders with Brazil, the French at Dahomey, French Congo, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Senegal, Upper Senegal, and Niger, Nyasaland Protectorate, and Palau (Pelew) Islands. Money-order Conventions for the direct exchange of money-orders with France, Norway, and Japan are in course of negotiation. Every effort is made to trace the senders of all money-orders remaining unpaid after a period of twelve months from the month of issue, with a view to repaying the amounts. During the year 1908, 1,119 orders were repaid to the remitters by means of new orders, and 57! duplicates of orders lost or destroyed were issued. An amended form for inland money-order telegrams was issued on the Ist January, 1909. ii-K. 1.

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Postal Notes. Forty-four offices were opened and three closed, leaving 754 postal-note offices at the end of the year. 1,222,280 notes, of the value of £389,143, were sold, as against 1,092,631, for £347,300, sold during the previous year —an increase of 11-87 per cent, in number and 12-05 per cent, in value. The postal notes paid numbered 1,214,548, of the value of £386,944 Bs. 6d., as compared with 1,082,516, of the value of £344,841 18s., paid during 1907-8. The postal-note commission amounted to £5,670 18s. 2d., as against £6,864 —a decrease of £1,193 Is. lOd. due to the reduction which was made in the commission on most of the denominations from Ist January. 1908. There has been *a considerable increase in business, and the revenue should soon reach its former total. British Postal Orders. 44,877 orders have been sold, valued at £24,178 ss. 6d., and 14,801, for £10,264 19s. 6d., paid. An extended table of the transactions is printed in Table No. 5. The abolition of the limit of amount for which British postal orders may be issued to any one person on any one day for payment to the same payee has appreciably increased the sales. The 20s. order is still in most demand, sales having reached 30-85 per cent, of the total. Following in order of popularity are the 10s. and ss. orders. Sayings-Bank. During the year 31 offices were opened and 1 closed, leaving 593 offices open at the end of 1908. 80,133 accounts were opened and 57,829 closed, the net gain on the year's working being 22,304 accounts. The number of accounts on the 31st December, 1908, was 342,077, and the proportion per head of population was 1 in 2-95, as compared with 1 in 3-09 at the end of the previous year. The deposits numbered 706,101, representing £9,674,075 45., an average of £13 14s. per transaction. The withdrawals numbered 484,672, for £9,417,820 10s. 3d., an average of £19 Bs. Bd. for each withdrawal. The net amount added by depositors to their savings during the year was therefore £256,254 13s. 9d. excess of deposits, plus £379,808 6s. 7d. interest earned and credited, making a total of £636,063 os. 4d. The total amount at credit of depositors increased from £11,523,230 17s. 9d. at the close of the previous year to £12,159,293 18s. Id. on the 31st December last, representing a sum equal to £12 Is. 2d. per head of the entire population, and £35 10s. lid. to each depositor. The interest credited to depositors since the Post-Office Savings-banks were established in 1867 now amounts to £4,180,653 13s. 4d. The cost of working the savings-banks amounted to 5-44 d. per transaction, or £27,000 for the year The cost of management per cent, on the total amount at credit of depositors was 0-22 per cent., or 4s. sd. per £100. A reciprocal arrangement has been entered into with the Post-Office Savings-Bank of Great Britain for the transfer of the balance of Post-Office Savings-Bank accounts from one country to the other. In a period of sixteen months since the inception of the system 189 accounts were transferred from New Zealand to Great Britain, and 195 accounts previously open in that country were transferred to the Post-Office Savings-Bank of this Dominion. The card-ledger system, having proved satisfactory, has been extended to the offices at Gisborne, Napier, and Wanganui. At every chief office and every sub-office where the card system is in operation the specimen signature of the depositor hitherto obtained on the fly-leaf of the pass-book is noWdispensed with in the case of new accounts. The transition from the old order to the new must necessarily be slow, but eventually the specimen signature of the depositor will be eliminated from the pass-book of every account open in the New Zealand Post-Office Sayings-Bank. On.payment of a fee of is. any person applying for leave to inspect the deposit-book of a closed Savings-Bank account which stood in his or her own name may do so, or may be supplied with a copy of the account, or any portion thereof. From the 28th January, 1909, £5 was fixed as the minimum amount which can be deposited at any one time for credit of a Savings-Bank account open in a district other than that in which the account is kept. In order to encourage the saving of small sums by depositors, a trial is being given at the Wellington. Court enay Place. Molesworth Street, Te Aro, and Wellington South offices, to the " home savings-bank safes." which readily permit of deposits of all sizes of coins and also of paper money. The safes are delivered to depositors locked, and the money deposited therein can only be taken out at the Post-Ollice Savings-bank where the keys are kept. When brought to the office, the safe is opened and the amount counted in the presence of the depositor, and then entered in the pass-book as an ordinary deposit. A yearly rental of fid. is charged for thejuse'of each " safe." Work performed for other Departments. Among the many branches of Government work performed by the Department may be mentioned the following :— Customs duties were collected on parcels and other articles coming through the post from places beyond the Dominion amounting to £64,378 45., and on account of ordinary Customs work £2,370 12s. 4d. Advances-io-S.-ttlers receipts amounted to £1,625.838 3s. 6d„ and payment* of £1,623,760 7s. Id,

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Fishing licenses were issued by Postmasters to the value of £1,333 55., and game licenses to the Value of £2,966 16s. For the Government Insurance Department premiums were collected from the public amounting to £28,681 18s. 9d. The sum of £28,551 17s. Bd. was paid to Imperial pensioners by Postmasters. Income-tax amounting to £196,343 14s. 5d., and land-tax, £431,934 17s. 2d., were collected by Postmasters. The sum of £7,846 155., fees due to the Machinery Department, was received. Under the Mining Act the receipts were £302 ss. New Zealand Consols for £120 were sold on behalf of the Treasury. The amount paid to old-age pensioners through the Post Office was £332,158 10s. 2d. On behalf of the Public Trustee £723,937 9s. 3d. was received, and £721,698 lis. Id. paid. Railway revenue amounting to £2,675 15s. lOd. was collected by Postmasters. Fees for the registration of births, deaths, and marriages received amounted to £2,441 ss. Receipts from the Hanmer Springs Sanatorium amounted to £1,904 3s. lid. Valuation Department fees paid to Postmasters reached £4,363 14s. Id. Claims on the General Government for £1,136,846 17s. lid. were paid on behalf of the Treasury. Discount-stamps numbering 2,643,840, for £2,754, were sold, and 2,585,136, for £2,692 175., redeemed during the year. , The amount invested by the general public in Government 4-per-cent. debentures through the medium of the Post Office was £52,000. Gross Receipts and Payments. The gross amount received by the Department during 1908 was £27,542,099 4s. 5d., of which £24,036,449 Bs. 4d. was departmental and £3,505,649 16s. Id. on account of other Departments. The gross amount paid out was £27,611,070 7s. BJd., made up of £24,106,680 19s. 6£d. departmen al. and, on behalf of other Departments, to individuals £2,706,169 65., and to accounts £798,220 2s. 2d. The total gross receipts and payments were therefore £55,153,169 12s. ljd. Telegraphs. It was decided on the 24th April, 1908, in interpretation of sections 29 and 3(1 of " The Gaming and Lotteries Act Amendment Act, 1907," that no telegraph-office is to be opened on any racecourse. The originals of inland telegrams and cable messages have, since the 11th June, 1908, been kept for six months and twelve months respectively, instead of for six months and three years as previously. From statistics supplied by the International Bureau at Berne, it appears that New Zealand stands twelfth amongst the countries of the world in respect of its telegraph business, exceeding such countries as Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Egypt, Sweden, Turkey, and Portugal. The total value of the telegraph and telephone business for the year ended the 31st March, 1909, including miscellaneous telegraph receipts and Government telegrams, was £374,174 7s. Kid., as compared with £348,749 17s. for the previous year—an increase of £25,424 10s. B|d., or 7-29 per cent. The following is a comparison of the traffic in paid telegrams during the last five years : —■ Number. Revenue. £ 1904-5 ... 4,900,495 167,581 1905-6 ... 5,351,084 Increase, 919 per cent. ... 180,474 Increase, 769 per cent 1906-7 ... 6,160,080 „ 1512 „ ... 202,301 „ 1209 1907-8 ... 6,958,279 „ 1296 „ ... 222,926 „ 10-2 1908-9 ... 7,338,017 „ 5-46 „ ... 233,517 „ 475 The number of telegrams forwarded and the revenue derived therefrom during the four quarters of the financial years 1907-8 and 1908-9 respectively are as follows :—

The telegraph receipts for the financial year, including telephone-exchange subscriptions, privatewire rents, &c, amounted to £369,352 175., compared with £344,251 os. 6d. in 1907-B—an increase of £25,101 16s. 6d., or 7-29 per cent.

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Numbi er of Telegrai 'orwarded. >■ Revenue. Quarter. Increase Year ended Year ended * » perCent. 31st March, 1908. 31st March, 1909. 5" Year ended 31st March, 1908. Year ended 31st March, 1909. June quarter September quarter December quarter March quarter ... 1,621,204 1,594,727 1,835,583 1,906,765 1,736,159 1,702,311 1,940,911 1,958,636 £ s. 709 51,937 4 6-75 50,921 8 5-74 58,794 16 2-72 61,272 9 d. I £ s. d. 54- 55,211 2 HhJ 9 j 54,129 13 5 0.', 61,533 3 7$ 2 62,642 10 4 6-30 6-30 4-66 2-24 6,958,279 7,338,017 5-46 222,925 18 5 233,516 10 4 4-75

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The expenditure was £394,649 19s. 6d., as against £357,581 Is. 3d. fol the previous year —all increase of £37,068 18s. 3d., or 10-37 per cent. There were 10,404 miles of line and 32,654 miles of wire at the close of the year—an increase of 748 and 3,310 miles respectively. The net expenditure out of Public Works Fund for telegraph-extension was £163,032 14s. 2d., as compared with £155,491 Bs. 6d. in 19(17-8. The number of private wires and subsidised lines was 430, compared with 389 in 11107-8. The amount received for rent, maintenance, &c, was £2,110, as against £2,206 6s. 4d. in 1907-8. The total number of telegraph and telephone offices open at the close of the year was 1,764. Of these. 287 were telegraph (iffices and 1,477 were telephone-offices. The number of telegrams of all codes forwarded during the last financial year was 7.425,693 — an increase of 382,770, or 5-43 per cent, over 1907-8. The proportion of paid telegrams per head of population was 7-36, and 7-42 the previous year. The number of ordinary telegrams forwarded was 5,237,207, of the value of £165,696 3s. B«Jd., compared with 6,040,044 of the value of £159,244 3s. 7Ad. in 1907-B—an increase of 197,163 and £6,352 Os. Id. The urgent telegrams numbered 212.988, to the value of £14,705 lis. 3d.—a decrease of 12,537 in Dumber and £916 Is. f Id. in amount. The average value of each ordinaty telegram was 7-59 d. and of each urgent telegram Is. 2-52 d. 134,729 Press telegrams, of the value of £21,102 9s. 7Jd., were forwarded in 1908-9. as compared with 152,536, valued at £21,201 Bs. Ud., forwarded in 1907-B—a decrease in number of 17,807, or 3-93 per cent., and a decrease of £98 18s. (id., or 0-47 per cent., in value. The value of each Press telegram averaged 11-65 d. as against 11-24 d. in 1907-8. The bureau messages numbered 1.123,093, of the value of £32,112 ss. 9d.. as compared with 1.2K1.171, of the value of £26,858 13s. 6d., in 1907-B—an increase of 212,919 in number and £5,253 12s. rid. iii amount. The average value of each bureau message was 5-42 d., as against 5-33 d. in 1907-8. The following figures show the growth of the traffic in bureau messages as compared with ordinary telegrams :- Average Value Year Year 1908-9. 1907-8. The total number of ordinary |197,163, or\ / £6,352 os. Id., 117.en,] 7-58 d telegrams increased by , 3 91% I and relative re-J or 3 "% ' The total number of bureau com-J 212,919, or I ceipts by £5,253 12s. 3d., [ 5 . 42 d 5 . 33 d inunications increased by 1 17-59% / \ or 19-56% The number of Government telegrams forwarded was 87,676, valued at £4,821 10s. 10d., as compared with 84,644, valued at £4,498 16s. 7Ad.—an increase of 3,032 in number and £322 14s. 2Ad. in amount. The number of paid forwarded telegrams to every hundred letters posted in New Zealand was 8-.50. New Zealand Cable Services. On the 26th September, 1908, 12 \ knots of cable were successfully laid from Tryphena, Great Barrier Island, to the mainland at Port Charles. On the 13th October. 1908, a small piece of cable about half a knot in length was laid across Awarua Bay on the Binll Estuary, and on the I7lh 3 knots 275 yards of cable were laid between Dog Islam) and Sandy Point. These two cables were laid for the purpose of connecting the Dog Island Lighthouse by telephone with the Greenhills telephone-line. On the 7th October, 1908, the Wanganui-Wakapuaka cable developed a fault, which was proved to be about 4 knots from the Wanganui end. Owing to bad weather prevailing, repairs were not finally effected until the 31st idem. 'Phis is only the second repair that has been necessary on this cable. The break was attributed to some vessel's anchor fouling the cable. No. 4 Lyell Bay cable, which has been faulty for .some time close to Lyell Bay, developed a second and more serious fault about 19 knots from Lyell Pa v. This was repaired on the 15th November, and the minor fault was afterwards proved to be on the beach at Lyell Bay, and was repaired on the 18th. On the 19th March, 1909. the cable connecting East Cape and East Island failed. All the Cook Strait cables are in good order. The Wanganui-Wakapuaka and the various cables in other parts of the Dominion are also in good win king-order. Ovka.n Cable Services. The ordinary international telegrams for the year increased 3-79 per cent., and the intercolonial by 3-9 per cent. New Zealand's proportion of the deficit of £62,362 10s. on the sixth year's working of the Pacific cable, 1907-8, amounted to £6,929 3s. 4d.

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The receipts and working-expenses of the Pacific cable for the year ended the 31st March, 1909, are estimated as follows :— £ £ Traffic revenue ... ... 108,000 Annuity and renewals ... 108,545 Estimated deficit ... . ... 69,566 Working-expenses ... 69,021 £177,666 £177,566 New Zealand's proportion of the loss is stated at £7,730. Of the ordinary paid business, the Pacific obtained —in 1906, 89 per cent. ; in 1907, 88 per cent. ; and in 1908, 85 per cent. ; the Eastern Company's share being 11, 12, and 15 per cent, during the same years. The following figures show the total number of forwarded ordinary telegrams for each of the past three years :— Pacific. E.E.A. <_ G. Year. Messages. Year. Messages. 1906 ... 94,199 1906 ... 11,522 1907 ... 102,490 1907 ... 13,610 1908 ... 101,724 1908 ... 18,873 The average best times in which messages are'handled on the Pacific route are : — H. m. From London ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 10 „ America ... "... ... ... ... ... ... 0 15 „ Sydney ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 5 „ Melbourne ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 15 During the year New Zealand has given the Pacific route 84*23 per cent, of the ordinary business to Australia. There has been a considerable increase in the number of cable Press messages sent from NewZealand. 1,142 such telegrams were sent via Pacific and 1,262 via Eastern, compared with 515 and 1,359 respectively last year. The result of the World's Sculling Championship at W'an.anui on the 15th Dei-ember, 1908, was transmitted by the Pacific cable. It was despatched from Makirikiri at 4.25 p.m., and received in Sydney three minutes later. Lisbon International Telegraph Conference. The eleventh International Telegraph Conference met at Lisbon from the Ith May to the 11th June, 1908. Delegates were present from all the countries of the Union, with the exception of Bolivia. The United States and China, which do not adhere to the Union, and thirty cable companies were also represented, but had no voting-rights. New Zealand was represented by the Hon. W. P. Reeves, High Commissioner. The question of the greatest public interest was that relating to the rules for counting different kinds of language, and especially words used in code telegrams. It was generally agreed that the privilege of usin<_' "artificial words" in code telegrams, conceded in a spirit of liberality at the last Conference, had been seriously abused. The intention of that Conference was to apply a favourable method of counting at the rate of ten letters to a word to " artificial words " similar in appearance to real words, and capable of being easily pronounced ; but the ingenuity of code-makers eager to obtain the maximum number of combinations soon led to the formation of codes containing millions of " artificial words " which could only be pronounced with'difficulty, if at all, and. as telegraph operators cajinot eras]) such combinations readily, more time is needed for their transmission, with the result that the speed of working is seriously reduced, while the number of errors is largely increased. Several proposals were made to deal with this question. The general view was that the privilege of using " artificial words " had struck too deeply into the habits of the commercial public, and that it could not be withdrawn without serious inconvenience. The only course, therefore, was to maintain generally the existing rules for counting words, and to take such steps as were practicable to keep the use of the privilege of artificial code within reasonable limits. The committee dealing with the question made two recommendations —first, that the test of pronounceability should be the ordinary or current usage of the language, and that the right to use double letters as single letters in the formation of " artificial words " should be abolished ; second, that the Telegraph Administrations of Great Britain, France, and Genuanv should be empowered to give the approval of the International Telegraph Union to such codes as were voluntarily submitted. These recommendations were approved by the Conference. The submission of codes for Government approval is not, however, to be compulsory. Codes which do not possess a Government certificate will still be available in so far as they may comply with the regulations. It is obvious, however, that a guarantee that the words in a given code will be accepted without question at any telegraph-office throughout the Union will be a strong recommendation in its favour, and the. three Administrations, by declining to give such guarantee until they are satisfied that it is fully merited by the character of the words in the collection, will be enabled indirectly to exercise a considerable amount of control. Other alterations for the benefit of the cable-using public made by the Conference are as follows :— (1.) The method of charging for repetition in case of error is modified, so as to reduce the cost to the public and to simplify the work of Administrations.

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(2.) Permission is given to use both figure and letter cipher in a single telegram, and to combine figures and letters in a single group of five characters when denoting commercial marks. (3.) In the case of a reply telegram which fails to effect its purpose in consequence of an irregularity in the treatment of the original telegram, and vice versa, the amount prepaid for both telegrams is to be reimbursed.

(4.) A reduction is made in the period of delay justifying reimbursement in the case of paid service telegrams. (5.) A provision is introduced that registered abbreviated addresses are entitled to pass as plain language in the text and signature as well as in the address. (6.) The arrangements for redirection are extended to extra European telegrams. (7.) The Press regulations are extended to extra-European telegrams, and greater freedom of selection is conceded as regards the languages in which Press telegrams may be written. The indication " Presse " used to distinguish Press from other telegrams, is to be transmitted free of charge. A proposal was made by the British delegates for the reduction of the charges of the European Administrations for extra-European telegrams to the level of the charges for European telegrams ; but this failed to obtain the necessary support from the Continental delegates. The amendments made in the regulations by the Conference come into operation from the Ist July, 1909. The next Conference will meet in Paris in 1915. Wireless Telegraphy. Notification has been received of the ratification of the Berlin Radio-telegraph Convention, 1906, l>v the following countries : viz.. Belgium, Brazil. Bulgaria, Denmark, Holland. (ieiniany, Great Britain, Japan, Mexico. Monaco. Norway. Roumania, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Great Britain for itself and certain possessions (including New Zealand), and Japan, however, did not ratify the additional agreement. The total number of signatory States at the end of 1908 was 28. All British possessions and protectorates have notified their adhesion to the Berlin Convention, 1906, with the exception of Newfoundland and Orange River Colony. The number of radio-telegraph stations notified to the Berne office as open at the end of 1908 was 508, 92 of these being land stations, and 416 ship stations. Representations were made by the Pacific Islands Radio-telegraph Company with a view to linking up the important islands in the Pacific -Fiji, Samoa, New Hebrides, Caroline, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Fanning Island, New Guinea, and Sandwich Islands —with Australia and New Zealand. It is proposed that Fiji should be the headquarters of the system, and that substations should be install.. on the other islands. This would be of great benefit to the Pacific cable, as messages would be sent from Fiji to New Zealand and Australia over the Pacific cable. Wireless telegraphy would not be used between Fiji, New Zealand, and Australia, except in cases of emergency, as radio-telegraphy cannot compete profitably with an aiready completed cable. The system to be used would be the Poulsen, with a speed of about thirty words a minute. The Government of Fiji, it is understood, has agreed to pay for the installation of the system on the islands under its jurisdiction. Such a scheme would be of great benefit in time of war and to shipping. It is almost certain that the shipping companies would install wireless apparatus on their vessels were such a scheme put into action. The company's proposals, however, did not cover all New Zealand's requirements. This Dominion required that the Chatham and the Auckland Islands shouid be included in the scheme, and the offer made by the company did not include these Islands. It is hoped, however, that ln-fore long such a service including the Chatham and the Auckland Islands —will be established, and that ali passenger steamers will be equipped with wireless apparatus. The Federal Prime Minister is favourably impressed with the idea, and is. negotiating with New Zealand. The Pacific Islands Radio-telegraph Company was registered in London in February, 1909, with a capital of £60.000. Mr. Milward. manager in the Pacific for the Pacific ( able Board, expressed himself favourably regarding the scheme. Telephone Exchanges. Twenty four new exchanges were opened during the year, and the number of subscribers increased by 2, ll'i. and the total number of connections by 2,952. The total number of exchanges now is 136. made up of 30 central and 106 subexchanges. The total number of connections is 26,833. compared with 23.881 in 1908. They may be classified _S follows: Paying. 20.138; free, 375 ; bureaux, 2,302 ; extensions. 1.018. New connections numbered 3,552, and those given up 1,139. The increase in connections is equal to 12-36 per cent. On the 31st March, 1909, there were 1,167 miles of telephone-line and 30,196 miles of wire. From the 26th June, 1908, the hours of attendance at exchanges where the number of subscribers is over 50 and under 100 were extended to run from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Lists in book-form of telephone-exchange subscribers were issued in January, 1909. and will in future be issued at intervals not exceeding six months, by Mr. G. Victor Beck, of Wellington, under contract with the Department. Book lists are to be printed for the telephone exchanges at Auckland,

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Christchurch. Dunedin. Palmerston North, Wanganui, and Wellington, and may be printed for other exchanges if satisfactory arrangements can be made. Common battery switchboards are installed at Invercargill and Timaru. It is also intended to install a similar equipment at Hastings, and some underground work is now proceeding preparatory to laving the necessary metallic circuits. The demand for telephone trunk circuits continues, and considerable additions have been made during the year. The following is a comparative statement showing length of new lines and wires erected in Telegraph Engineers' districts during the last five years :—

Telegraph and Telephone Maintena.v k. The rebuilding of the Waipu-Dargaville line has been completed, and the line is now in first-class order. On the Rawene-Kohukohu circuit and at Whitianga a piece of single-core cable has been laid across the river, replacing a long span of wire, which frequently gave trouble; to shipping. Duplex sets have been fitted at Auckland and Hamilton, on the No. 2 metallic circuit, and another quadruple, set at Auckland office. To provide tor rapid increases in the number of subscribers, the Onehunga Exchange has been fitted with a SO-number annunciator, the Hamilton Exchange with three, and the Rotorua Exchange with two 100-number annunciators. The Wellington Pahiatua and Hastings Dannevirke sections have been thoroughly overhauled, a large number of ironbark poles, particularly stout at angles, having been erected, and the spans shortened to 3 chains where possible. As the Pahiatua-Woodville section was reconstructed last year, and the Napier-Hastings section is a comparatively new one. there is now a substantial line all the way from Wellington to Napier, excepting the Woodville-Dannevirke section, which will be overhauled and strengthened at an early date. The new telephone-line between Wharerata and Morere can now be used for through telegraph purposes whenever any breakdown occurs on the Gisborne main line between Wharerata and Nuhaka. thus minimising the delays caused by heavy weather on the east coast. To make provision for increased traffic between Dannevirke. Weber, and outlying districts, a new wire has been erected to form a metallic circuit with the existing wire and the Morse superimposed. A second duplex set has been installed at Napier and Hastings to work over one of the new metallic circuits..Owing to the increase in the number of circuits, it has been necessary to put larger test-boards in at Carterton. Featherston. Hunterville, Levin, Mangaweka. Nuhaka. Waitara. Waveriey, and Weber ; and, to facilitate testing operations, test boards have been put in at Ashhursl Railway, Kai Iwi. and Te Ante. Marton Junction and Weber have been converted into Morse offices. A Morse duplex circuit has been superimposed over the W'airoa-Napier metallic-circuit trunk wire. The exchange subscribers at Apiti. Hull, .lohnsonville, Kiwitea. Mangaweka. < Itakeho, and Pongaros are connected by metallic circuits ; the Kimbolton subscribers' circuits have also been made metallic, and the work ol making the Wanganui subscribers' circuits metallic by means of aerial lead-covered cables is almost completed. Provision is being made at Hastings in connection with t he new post-office, now in course ol erection, for the installation of a central battery equipment, and conduits are being constructed for underground cables to relieve the streets in the centre of the town from the congestion of overhead wires. Owing to an increasing number of subscribers, new annunciators have been installed at Eltham. Hutt, Wairoa. and Weber: and new metallic-circuit bureau boards have been installed at Hunterville, Hutt, Patea. Wanganui. and Waveriey. The establishment of exchanges.at Cheltenham, Kaikora North, Nuhaka, Otaki, Tokomaru, and I'tiku has been authorised, and arrangements are in progress for their early construction. The underground-conduit construction-work in connection with the Wellington Exchange was in March. Altogether 3 miles 55 chains of trench-work was excavated. Considerable

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1904. 1905. Poles. Wire. Pole*. Wire. Poles. 1906. 1907. Wire. Poles. Wire. II X)8. Poles. Wire. uckland Ibristcliurch )unedin relson Vellington M. ch. .. 62 70 .. 16 60 .. 81 60 3 20 ..33 0 M. ch. M. ch. M. ch. i M. ch. M. ch. I M. ch. M. ch. 371 10 68 80 101 50 [135 60 494 40 139 00 350 60 64 60 57 30 165 40 111 30 170 8 ] 90 47 266 20 166 0 130 50 400 20 48 40 392 20 121 0 518 20 3 40 25 16 152 1 !l46 67 217 49 ;245 16 ' 484 77 116 40 128 71 592 78 1156 35 641 40 104 43 i 690 74 M. ch. 228 60 62 30$ 248 60 52 22 157 2J M. ch 795 0 641 50 644 60 254 58 974 52 Totals 197 50 721 70 |411 26 1,412 29 598 72 1,916 77 (701 6 2,311 11 749 15 3,310

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difficulties were encountered by reason of sewer, water, and gas pipes, and the influx of water. Fiftytwo large manholes and 46 footpath distributing-manholes were constructed, whilst 26J miles of 3 in. ducts was laid ready to receive the cables. A start was made in July to utiiise the underground system by drawing a 103-pair cable through to serve Kelburne subscribers prior to the arrival of the 306-pair cable. Several 306-pair cables, aggregating 375 chains, have since been drawn into position north and south of the exchange, and already over a hundred subscribers have been connected through them. Three hundred others will be connected similarly within a very short period. The wiring and replacing of telephones in the new Parliament Buildings caused a large amount of work. The requirements of the P>oard of Control in regard to electric-light permits also demand considerable attention. Four hundred and fifty permits were issued during the year, all of which necessitated visils of responsible officers to judge circumstances. The lines have been overhauled and strengthened from Puponga to Nelson and branches, Mokihinui to Westport. Carter's Junction to Cape Foulwind, Westport to Inangahua Junction, Longford section from the Eight-mile to the new bridge and to Hope Junction, and the Hope Junction - TophouseBelgTOVe Section. Morse was installed at Collingwood, enabling direct communication with Nelson. Karamea was also converted into Morse direct with Westport. Ahaura and Brunnerton were converted from Morse into telephone offices. Extensive bush-fires occurred in the Buller Gorge during March, doing considerable damage to the line there. The Pelorous Sound line has been supplied with 2.000-ohms telephones, much improving the circuit. The Ross-Okarito line was also similarly dealt with. These telephones are of a special type suitable for long-distance working. They have a condenser so applied that the ringing is not interfered with when the receiver is off the hook. The overhauling and strengthening of the main line from Kaikoura to Christchurch has been carried out. Spans have been shortened and angles doubled between Kaikoura and Waiau. The line is constructed of iron rails throughout this section. From Waiau to Kaiapoi the poles are of wood, and every fifth one has been doubled. Between Kaiapoi and Christchurch 30 ft. poles are in use. This section has also been overhauled and re-armed to accommodate subscribers' metallic circuits. South of Christchurch and as far as llornbv t he line of 30 ft. poles has been shifted to make room for railway duplication. Beyond Hornby the line has been reconstructed to a point south of Hinds. Iron rails doubled have been used for poles, replacing IS miles of wooden poles, spans all under 3 chains, and six-holed arms in plaice of two-holed. This makes a substantial line, quite fit to carry the increased load of five wires as far as Rakaia, and three beyond that station. Reconstruct ion-work is being pushed forward towards Timaru, and two wires for the trunk telephone and one 300 lb. copper wire (Morse) are being taken along as the work progresses. . A party running a wire from Otira to Bealey Flat is strengthening the section generally as it proceeds, and the line will be in first-class order before winter. A 52-wire metallic-circuit cable has been run between Christchurch and Lyttelton, and the 26 connections in use are working satisfactorily. One hundred and forty-nine chains of armoured cable laid underground in the Lyttelton tunnel is included in this work. An exceptionally heavy snowstorm in July completely wrecked over a hundred miles of the Central Otago lines. During the reconstruction, advantage was taken of the opportunity to move 32 miles of the old line between Pigroot and Wedderburn to the main road. New material was used throughout the greater part of the reconstruction. The last of the Dunedin telephone earth circuits was converted to the metallic system on the 29th May, 1908.

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APPENDIX.

DESIGNATION OF OFFICES CHANGED OR CORRECTED.

INLAND MAIL-SERVICES ESTABLISHED, EXTENDED, ETC.

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Postal District. Changed from Changed to Auckland Kaurihohore Putati Waiwawa ... High Street (B.O.) ... Holmeslea ... Dunedin Railway-station Pukepito Rough Ridge ... Blackwater ... Upper Blackwater Waitaha Mangarua ... Aratiatia Manawaru ... Wahipai Thorndon Railway Brighton Cr.nadon Fairdown Junction Kauri. Putake. Hoteo. High Street (Christchurch). Holmeslee. Dunedin Railway Bureau. Pukeawa. Oturehua. Hukarere. Blackwater. Pukekura. Te Waewae. Manawaru. Te Aroha West. Beautiful Valley. Wellington, Lambton. Tiromoana. Cronadun. Fairdown. Christchurch ... Dunedin Greymouth .... Hokitika Invercargill Thames Timaru Wellington Westport ir It • "

District. Name of Service. .'requency. Remarks. Auckland Ongarue Post-office - Railway-station Oparau Post-office - Ferry Makat ote Post office - Railway-station Matangi- Eureka - Tauwhare Streamlands Post-office - coach Koromatun - Frankton Junction Mititai-Arapohue Te Rore - Pirongia Whangarei - Kiripaka Wiri - Papatoetoe Kawakawa-Karetu Matierc-Otangiwai Morrinsville-Kiwitahi (wayside delivery) Ohinewai-Waiterimu Ruakiwi - Waingaro Settlement Ruawaro Huntly Takahue - Victoria Valley-Peri* .. Towai-Koraha Awanui-Kaitaia Kaeaea-Aria Kinohaku Waerengahon .. Manawaur.i Russell Mangaoliae .Ma.oknp.-i Kiritiliere .. Mangoinii Orurii - l'eria - Kaiaka - Fairburn's-Rangitihi -Kaitaia Maramai ua-Maiingatawhiri Ohuia Waitewhena Parua Bay - Whangarei Taipa-What uwhiwhi Wade-Orewa Waimatciiui-Tutamoc Auckland, &c. - Kaipara Flats (railway service) Frankton Junction - Taumarumii .. Whangarci-Onerahi ... Awhitu Wharf - Awhitu Central As required Established. Daily' .. Four times weekly Thrice weekly „ (See Abolished.) ,» .. »» •. Twice weekly », • • „ (Renewal.) ,, . • (See Abolished.) ,» *. ,, • • Weekly (See Abolished.) „ • Extended : t" Waiwawa and Wayby. „ to Makatote. ,, to Limestone. Frequency increased: thrice to four times weekly. Frequency increased : thrice to four times weekly to Te Kopuru, Aratapu, Aoroa, and Dargaville. Helensville-Dargaville

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District. Name of Service. Frequency. Remarks. Luckland— ctd.. Otaua-Waiuku Taupo-Tokaanu Whangaroa-Kaeo Whangarei-Maungatapei-e-Poroti .. Whangarei-Piiwera-Maungakaraine.-i 1 Kawakawa, &c. - Horeke Mangonui-Taipa .. Morrinsville-Tahuna Ohaeawai, &c. - Taheke .. Ohura-Tatu Ongarue, &c. - Oluiia Taupn-Waitahanui Tuakau-Pukekawa Waikumete-Karekare Rotnrua-Taupo Koromatua - Frankton Junction Taupo-Tokaanu .. Waerenga-Taniwha Helensville-Dargaville Helensville, 4c. — Matakohe Mangonui, &c. - Kaitaia < Ingarue-Matiere-Ohura .. Rawene-Whakapara Whakapirau, &c. - Maungaturoto Kaihu-Taheke Auckland-Devonport Devonport letter delivery and clearing of receivers Fairburn's - Victoria Valley - Takahue Hikuai-Puketui Hukerenui Railway-station - Postoffice Kaurihohore Post-office - Railwaystation Rauri m u-Makat ote Tauwhare-Eureka Te Maika - Ifarokopa - Kiritiht-re .. Waingaro-Ruakiwi Whakapara-Puhipuhi Wliangarei-Kiripaki Nuungiiru llenheim .. Wairau Valley - Top Valley main Twice weekly coach road and Te Rou 'liristchureli .. Christcliurcli - St. Albans . . .. Four times daily. . Belfast Post-office - Railway-station Thrice daily Hornby Post-office - Railway-station Twice daily Christchurch-M.iishlanil (deliveiy of Daily correspondence) Rakaia Meade .. .. .. Thrice weekly Little River - Te Oka .. Twice weekly Upper Waiau - Glynn Wye . . Weekly Waiau - Mendip Hills .. „ Lyttelton - Chatham Islands .. Once every two months Frequency increased: twice to thrice weekly. Frequency increased : twice to thrice weekly (for summer service). Frequency increased : twice to thrice weekly. Ditto. Frequency increased : once to twice weekly. Ditto. ,, (Periodical in terms of arrangement.) Frequency decreased : daily to thrice weekly (for winter service). Frequency decreased: thrice to twice weekly. Frequency decreased: thrice to twice weekly (for winter service). Frequency decreased: thrice to twice weekly. Altered : by inclusion of Ruawai after Tangoihi. Altered : by inclusion of Te Komiti. Altered: by inclusion of Komiti after (liuru. Altered: by inclusion of Nihoniho after Matiere. Altered : by inclusion of delivery of Colonel Noake's private bag. Altered : by inclusion of Marohemo after Whakapirau. Temporarily discontinued (for winter). Abolished : as a subsidised service (now performed under gratuity). Abolished. (Now performed by Demental staff.) .• (See Established under Thames.) (See Extended.) (See Established.) Established. (Renewal.) " .. (Renewal.) ,, ,» llenheim 'liristchureli . . Clearing receivers in Christohnroh, Sydenham, St. Albans, to. Broken River, to. - Kumara ( heviot - Port Robinson Cheviot-Spotswnod pnrt ion-of Cheviot -Kaikoura service lunedin . Wcddcrbiii-n 1'ust-office - Railway- Twice daily station Manuka Creek Post-office - Railway- Daily sidina; Frequency inoreased : daily and once extra on Saturday to twice daily in Christchurch and portion of Sydenham. Altered : by inclusion of Bealey Flat after Realey. Altered: by exclusion of connection with iteamers. Frequency decreased: daily to thrice weekly. Established. hinedin

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District. Name of Service. Frequency. Remarks. Dunedin— eld. North-east Harbour Post-office - coach Warrington Post-office - Railwaystation Omakau-Matakanui Cromwell — Lowburn Ferry Houipapa-Tawanui .. ..I Pembroke-< 'ardrona Tahakopa-Wharuarimu Balclutha-Pukepito Daily .. Weekly Established. ». »> • • ,» >• •' „ (Winter service renewed.) Balclutha-Te Houka Balclutha-Pukepito »» • * ,, Frequency increased : twice to thrice weekly. Frequency increased: once to twice weekly. Altered: by inclusion of Awamangu and Pukeawa after Hillend. (See Frequency increased.) Abolished. (See Altered and FreQUENCY INCREASED.) Abolished. Established. Frequency increased : twice to thrice weekly. Balolutha—Awamangu jisborne Milton-Adam's Flat .. .. ' Puha Post-office-Railway-station .. Gisborne - Waiohika - Waimata Valley portion of Gisborne, &c.Arakihi service Te Karaka - Kanakanae Daily Gisborne, tc. -Wairoa, via Morere. Frequency increased: weekly to twice weekly (for summer service). Frequency decreased : twice weekly to weekly (resumption of winter service). Frequency decreased : twice to once weekly (resumption of winter service). Altered: by inclusion of Toatoa. Established. Te Karaka-Kanakanae jlreymouth Motu Opotiki Blackball-Roa < It ira - Otira Tunnel .. ... Hinau - Antonio's Flat Ahaura-Atarau Daily Thrice weekly .. Altered: Io commence from Blackball instead of Ahaura. Abolished. hokitika Black's Point - Awatea Mawheraiti - Antonio's Flat Teremakau Post-office-Railway-station Kumara-Hohonu Kumara - Westbrook - Greenstone - Hohonu Ross, tc. - Waiho Gorge Twice weekly Established. Curtailed: to Kumara - Westbrook - Greenstone. (See Established.) Altered : by inclusion of Harihari after Hende's Ferry, and Tatars after The Forks. Established. invercargill Waipounamu Post-office - coach at junction of RiverSdale - Waikaia Road Riversdale-Kaweku l lifdcn-VV'airoto (rural delivery) Garston - Upper Nevis - Nevis Daily Twice weekly Weekly », ,, (Resumption of summer service.) Nightcaps-Wairaki (rural delivery) Bluff - Run puke Island Fort rose Waimahaka Railway-station Fortnightly ,, „ (Renewal.) Frequency increased: daily to daily and one extra trip one day weekly. Frequency increased: weekly to twice weekly (for winter service). Altered: by inclusion of Te Oneroa (reo|)cned). Altered : by inclusion of Mangarua after Waihoaka. Established. Lumsden-Mossburn portion of Lumsden - Te Anau service Invercargill or Bluff-Cromarty Otautau, tc. - Tuatapere .. Napier Landing and shipping mails at Napier Breakwater Waipukurau Post-office - Railwaystation Dannevirke-Raumati Napier-Wairoa As recjuired Foul' times daily Daily Olire a wee!, when bar unworkable ,, Takapau-Makaretu Mangatuna and Weber-Dannevirke Junction Napier-Taupo Frequency increased : thrice weekly to daily. Frequency increased: weekly to twice weekly. Altered: by inclusion of Rangataiki, after Tarawera. Altered : by inclusion of Omahanui after Frasertown. Established. Wairoa-Frasertown-Waikaremoana kelson Tatahi-Nelson Pokororo - Ngatimote - OrinocoNeudorf and Upper Moutere Tonga Bay - Nelson .. Nelson-Croixclles .. .. I Daily .. Thrice weekly .. „ (See Abolished.) Weekly Fortnightly ,» „ (Sec Abolished.)

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list riot ranio o] >rvice. 'requeucy. remarl ;s. lelson— ctd. Nelson-Collingwood (rural delivery) Extended : to Golden Ridge Post-office (reopened). Frequency increased : weekly to twice weekly. Frequency decreased: weekly to fortnightly. Altered: by closing of Golden Ridge Post-office, and substitution of rural delivery. Altered: by change of stopping-place from Longford to Murchison. Abolished. (See Established.) Collingwood-Puponga Nelson-Croixelles Collingwood - Golden Ridge Kohatu, tc. - Inangahua Junction .. few Plymouth Nelson-Wairangi-Croixelles Ngatimote - Lower Moutere Ngatimote-Pokororo Orinoco-Ngatimote Upper Moutere - Neudorf Landing, checking, and despatching mails at New Plymouth Breakwater ; also reporting shipping and weather Midhirst—Tuna Ratapiko-Kaimata * .. Inglewood-Kaimiro Waitui-Kaimata Landing and shipping mails at New Plymouth Reporting shipping at New Plymouth, also receiving and despatching mails at Breakwater Otekaieke Post-office-Railway-siding Omarama - Lake Pukaki As required Daily Thrice weekly .. Twice weekly „ (See Established.) _ itablished. (See Abolished.) ,, »» .» ». • ■ Abolished. (See Established.) tamaru Twice daily Weekly Established. Kurow-Duntroon ,, (Resumption of summer service.) Frequency increased: daily to eight times weeklyTempo rarily discontinued: (for winter). Established. 'hames Omarama - Lake Pukaki Turua Post-office - steamers Paengaroa - coaches at stables Nevesville-Puketui-Hikuai Ruatoki-Opouriao-Taneatua Matahanea-Opotiki Thames-Patetonga Waimana-Kutarere Hikuai-Puketui As required Daily Twice weekly (See Abolished.) Weekly '.. Weekly „ ,, ,* ., - - Frequency increased : weekly to twice weekly. (See Established. Thames • and Abolished, Auckland.) Altered: by inclusion of Otarere after Te Teko, and Rotoma after Rotorua. Altered : by inclusion of Kerepehi. Frequency increased: thricc-woekly summer service resumed in terms of contract. (See Frequency decreased.) Frequency increased : once to twice weekly. Frequency decreased: discontinued to Hermitage and reduced thrice to twice weekly to Lake Tekapo, and once weekly to Lake Pukaki; for winter (1st May-31st October), periodical, in terms of contract. (See Frequency increased.) Established. Rotorua, tc. - Opotiki I'imaru Thames-Patetonga Fairlie, tc. - Hermitage Cave-Cannington and Motukaika .. Fairlie, tc. - Hermitage .. 'anganui Waitotara-Railwajj-station Wiuiata Post-office- Railway-station Turangarere Post - office - Railwaystation Makirikiri Post-office-Makirikiri Valley (Lambert's) Opaea Junction (no post-office) - Ngawaka Tiriraukawa-Pukemaupo Road (rural delivery) Moeawatea - junction Mataimnana Road Mataroa - Turangarere - Waiouru - Rangataua - Ohakune Siding (Railway service) Ohakune-Raetihi portion of Ranga-taua-Raetihi service Opaea Junction - Ngawaka As required Twice daily Daily Twice weekly ,. • • Weekly Frequency increased: daily to twice daily. Ditto. Mangamingi-Omoana portion of Eltham, tc. - Omoana service Frequency increased : twice to thrice weekly. Frequency increased: weekly to twice weekly,

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tiBtrict. [anie ol vrvi ice. 'requency. leniarl ;b. 'anganui— eld. Raetihi-Mangaituroa-Pipiriki Tokaanu-Waiouru Eltham, tc. - Omoana Hunterville - Watershed Road Ohakune-Horopito-Makatote Frequency decreased: thrice to twice weekly for winter (1st May-31st October), periodical, in terms of contract. Ditto. Altered : by inclusion of Matemateaonga after Mangamingi. Altered : by closing of Pukiore Postoffice and extension of rural delivery to West Road (Burn's). Altered: by service being performed by train instead of by coach. Altered: by exclusion of Te Rangaakaupo. Altered: by inclusion of Mangoihi after Mangaituroa. Altered: by coach not waiting at Raetihi, but proceeding at once to Pipiriki. Altered : by inclusion of Matahiwi and Te Tuhi (reopened) after Wanganui. Abolished. Ohakune-Makatote Raetihi—Mangaituroa-Pipiriki Tokaanu-Pipiriki Wanganui, tc. - Pipiriki r ellington Mangaonoho Post-office - Railwaystation Waiouru Railhead - Waiouru Postoffice Eastbourne (delivery throughout the ; Daily borough and clearance of receivers) Ohau-Muhunoa .. Palmerston North - Fitzherbert West Tokomaru Post-office-Railway-station „ Wellington-Seitoun .. .. „ Abolished: owing to railway extension. Established. „ (Re-established.) ,, (Now performed by tramway instead of by ferry steamer.) Hutt - Normandale (no post-office) Thrice weekly (rural delivery) Featherston-Wairorongomai (no post- Twdee weekly office) (ruial deliveiy) Ihurau-Wairere (rural delivery) .. „ Upper Hutt - Akatarawa (rural delivery) ,, Wellington City (delivery of parcels) Palmerston North-Terrace End .. Eketahuna-Pleckville Extended: to about half a mile past the upper bridge on the Akatarawa Road. Extended: to suburbs. Frequency increased : twice to thrice daily. Frequency increased : thrice weekly to daily. Frequency decreased : thrice to twice weekly. Altered: by inclusion of Gladstone. Abolished. (Delivery now made by letter-carrier from Wellington.) Tararua-Aokautere M.istcrton - Flat Point Crofton and Khandallah from Kaiwarawara (delivery by subsidised carrier) Palmerston North - Fitzherbert West Seatoun (delivery through Seatoun, Worser Bay, and Karaka Bay) Wcllington-Seatoun Abolished. Abolished. (Delivery now ]ierformed by Post master.) Abolished. (Formerly performed by ferry-boat, now by tramway.) (See Established.) Established: in lieu of MillertonMine Creek. (See Abolished.) Abolished. (Delivery now made by Departmental carrier.) Abolished. (Sec ESTABLISHED.) 'estport Granity - Mine Creek .. .. Daily Burnett's Face (letter delivery) Millerton - Mine Creek

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The several subsidised sea mail-services, the subsidy-payments for the year 1908, the dates when established, and the date on which each terminates are shown below: —

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Service. Annual Subsidy or Payment. Duration of Service. When When terminated established. terminable. Number of Voyages per Annum. Mileage for Complete Voyage. Cost per Mile. Auckland and Fiji Auckland and South Pacific islands Auckland and Devonport Auckland and Great Barrier Auckland, Whangaroa, and Mangonui Dargaville and Tangiteroria Helensville and Matakohe £ s. d. 1,690 0 0 June, 1880 1,200 0 0 June, 1885 60 0 0 Aug., 1863 April, 1908 250 0 0 Oct., 1891 Dec, 1909 126 0 0 Nov., 1907 Dec, 1909 13 12 939 52 52 2,334 6,992 6 120 368 s. d. 1 137 0 3-43 0 2-56 0 9-62 0 1-58 90 0 0 Nov., 1893 Dec, 1909 150 0 0 Jan., 1881 Dec, 1909 104 52 I 156 I ( 208* j 46 118 170 0 4-51 0 5-87 Helensville and Dargaville 500 0 0 Jan., 1881 Dec, 1909 0 4-52 Horeke, Kohukohu, Rawene, Koutu, Rangi Point, Opononi, and Omapere Russell and Opua Wellington, Ketu Bay, Homewood, Maori Bay (and other offices), and Havelock Wellington and Motueka Picton, offices in Sounds, and Havelock Nelson, Tonga Bay, Totaranui, Takaka, and Collingwood I 195 0 0+ i Jan '* 1889 Dec -' 1909 70 0 0 Jan., 1889 Dec, 1909 I j Dec, 1891 Dec, 1909 - 600 0 0 I Nov., 1902 Dec, 1909 107 10 0 Jan., 1907 Dec, 1909 '-' " ° ° ' Dec 1909 | 109 o o; i • • Uec ' 19W 100 0 0 Jan., 1904 Dec, 1909 I 104 I t 156 } (as required) 26 43 26 48 183 210 164 0 5-85 0 10-44 0 6-05 104 130 0 1-86 Nelson and Croixelles Westport and Karamea Westport and Little Wanganui .. Hokitika, Okarito, Bruce Bay, Paringa, Haast, Okura, and Jackson's Bay Lyttelton and Chatham Islands (including Pitt Island) Bluff and Half-moon Bay Bluff and Ruapuke Island Bluff, Te-Oneroa, and Cromarty .. New Zealand and Australia (Wel-lington-Sydney) ( 450 0 0 i June, 1886 ) - .-.„ I 650 0 0|| Jan., 1895 | u *°' lyiii 600 0 0 Jan., 1886 Dec, 1909 I 52 ) 1 29S I J 36 1 12 6 44 102 I 82 } 384 1 5-03 1 11-70 5 2-50 (300 0 0 |l (Mar., 1908 ( 350 0 OH i •• ( April, 19111 300 0 0 July, 1886 Dec, 1909 45 0 0 Sept., 1903 275 0 0 April, 1893 Nov., 1908 15000 0 0 Dec, 1906 July, 1910 I • 1,050 1 0-7 52 26 12 52 48 26 208 1,200 0 4-85 1 3-95 2 2-44 4 969 ♦Frequency increased, 4th Ma19th November, 1908. I Tonga 1 Ohiwi included and frequency din December, 1908. IT Contract rem !, 1908 (Is. 4d. per bag paid for extra mail), lay included and subsidy increased, 8th June, 19C linished, 15th February, 1906. I! Service rei )wed and subsidy increased, 1st May, 1908. \ Subsidy and frequency increased, i. § Wairangi, Otarawao, and lewed and subsidy increased, 15th

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CABLE BUSINESS. The number and value of cable messages forwarded from New Zealand during 19C8 are shown in the following statement: — Via Pacific.

The Dominion's outward international and Australian cable busings, not including Press, for the years 1908 and 1907 was as follows : — International. Number of Value. Messages. £ s. d. 1908.. ... ... 32,649 46,350 10 8 1907... ... ... 31,456 45,389 8 7 Increase 1,193 = 379 per cent. £961 2 1 - 212 per cent. Australia. Number of Value. Messages. £ s. d. 1908... ... ... 87,948 17,171 13 0. 1907... ... ... 84,644 16,510 16 8 Increase 3,304 = 3-9 per cent. £660 16 4i = 4 per cent. There was a total increase of 4,497 messages, and an increase of £1,021 18s. s>Sd. in value. The number of cable messages received in New Zealand during 1908, exclusive of Press, was as follows :— Pacific. International. Australia. 1908 ... ... ... 17,888 51,071 1907 ... ... ... ... ... 17,134 52,696 Increase ... ... . . ... 754 Decrease 1,625 Extension. International. Australia. 1908 ... ... ... ... ... 11,518 27,400 1907 ... ... ... ... ... 11,020 2a, 273 Increase ... ... ... .. 498 Increase 4,127

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Ordinary. Press. Destination. Number of Messages. Value. Number of Messages. Value. International Australia... 27,399 74,325 £ s. d. 39,838 11 7 14,463 19 0\ 286 856 £ s. d. 1,163 14 9 511 5 8£ Total for 1908 101,724 54,302 10 7. 1,142 1,675 0 5. Total for 1907 102,490 54,511 19 (i 515 179 13 5 Via Exte SION. Destination. Number of Messages. irdinary. !■ Value. Number of Messages. 'ress. Value. International Australia ... 5,250 13,623 j. s. d. 6,511 19 1 2,707 14 0 94 1,168 £ 358 610 s. d. 2 0 3 7 Total for 1908 18,873 9,219 13 1 1,262 968 5 7 Total for 1907 13,610 7,388 5 ! 9 1,359 823 12 0

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The forwarded and received cable Press business for the ten years ended the 31st December, 1908,

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Forwardi Received. Year. Number of Number of Messages. Words. Value. Messages. : Words. Value. .899 .900 .901 .902 .903 .904 .905 906 907 908 1,570 1,034 1,420 1,830 1,595 1,551 2,226 1,815 1,874 2,404 182,066 139,295 148,400 202,968 159,732 161,094 181,196 186,128 135,325 236,759 £ s. d. 1,800 10 4 1,457 4 5 2,718 12 0 1,772 8 4 1,235 11 1 1,147 8 8 1,290 9 3 1,290 7 9 1,003 5 5 2,643 6 0: 3,822 4,014 3,989 4,443 5,636 4,488 4,548 4,061 4,204 4,264 298,218 333,300 351,291 396,438 425,824 392,888 398,878 394,337 405,498 380,117 £ 8. d. 1,690 12 4 1,878 9 1 1,967 19 3 2,200 10 6 2,333 10 2 2,169 1 3 2,254 18 5 2,163 17 0 2,423 4 11 2,092 9 51

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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 since the Year 1863.

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Issued in the Dominion. Where payable. Total. In the Dominion. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices. Australia and other British Possessions. Year. Commission received. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. £ »• d. 1,057 9 o £ s d. 9,613 11 11 £ s. d. j 21,944 2 I 4.645 £ s- d. 24.M5 7 5 11,586 £ s. d. 55.703 1 5 :86 3 2,201 4.74° '873 3,562 .3 2 34,288 142,642 4 10 11,913 48,547 II 4 6,150 28,068 5 5 52,351 219,258 1 7 1883 9,022 10 6 132,232 402,558 12 11 26,211 91.634 4 7 M."3 46,939 17 n 172,556 541,132 15 5 :893 10,248 14 5 146.133 576,358 17 2 29,616 86,544 19 ii 35.2o8 88,025 8 9 210,957 750,929 5 10 894 895 896 897 [898 899 1900 1901 [902 10,600 19 7 II.433 13 8 12,671 6 7 13,835 15 4 M.747 9 6 15,533 4 6 16,512 12 9 17,518 11 o 14,915 18 2 155.534 162,600 181,505 193,867 206,265 221,354 239.565 255.344 258,110 608,042 2 11 635,062 17 11 717,217 19 1 762,592 10 3 798,725 15 8 864,513 4 9 951,860 7 4 1,002,056 12 I 1,014,723 16 O 28,513 28,882 29.238 31.770 35.377 38,528 40,925 45,701 53.9IO 79,348 10 2 78,465 o 4 82,498 15 6 93,649 1 3 107,140 7 5 122,064 3 1 122,934 10 4 125,549 5 11 138,755 2 8 38,631 52,015 58,823 68,002 76,728 84,782 I 89,344 104,922 55,i87 89,392 11 10 99,076 16 8 102,443 ' ° "4.589 3 5 123.375 4 6 132,230 17 9 140,057 18 9 158,902 3 10 123,580 3 7 222,678 243.497 269,566 293.659 318,370 344.664 369,834 405,967 367,207 776,783 4 11 812,604 x 4 n 902,159 15 7 970,830 14 11 1,029,241 7 7 1,118,808 5 7 1,214,852 16 5 1,286,508 1 10 1.277.059 2 3 [903 15,881 18 5 273.535 1,108,067 5 8 63.309 157,789 16 o 59,468 150,367 10 8 396,312 1,416,224 12 4 904 905 906 907 [908 16,385 9 o 17.073 9 6 18,278 10 3 18,846 12 6 12,555 10 3 281,655 287,394 301,650 305,424 338,752 1,148,226 3 o 1,189,385 13 4 1,312,270 13 4 1,389,800 4 4 1,611,968 4 11 60,490 57.414 60,120 58,565 67.384 165,245 o 8 177,609 18 8 186,902 16 6 193,356 5 3 226,408 10 1 65,638 72,633 77,250 77.498 81,948 163,416 4 9 174,716 7 10 187,057 12 1 190,434 7 6 212,307 11 10 407,783 417,441 439,020 441,487 488,084 1,476,887 8 5 1,541,7x1 19 10 !i,686,23i 1 11 ji.773.590 17 * 2,050,684 6 10 Drawn on the Dominion. Where issued. Total. In the Dominion. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices. Australia and other British Possessions. Year. No. Amount. No. Amount. No.- I Amount. No. Amount. £ s - d - 9,169 4 6 £ s. d. 1,824 o 8 558 £ »• d. 3.077 13 7 3,040 £ s. d 14,070 18 9 [863 2,067 415 ■873 34,288 142,642 4 10 1,482 6,625 14 5 1,668 7,689 6 8 37.43° 156,957 5 11 [883 132,232 402,558 I. 11 3.725 15.553 3 » 5.697 23,299 12 11 141,654 441,411 9 9 [893 146,133 576,358 17 2 8,746 32,616 17 2 10,679 40,929 2 5 165,558 649,904 16 9 [894 1895 [896 [897 [898 [899 1900 [901 [902 155,534 162,600 181,505 193,867 206,265 221,354 239.565 255.344 258,110 608,042 2 11 635,062 17 11 717,217 19 1 762,592 10 3 798,725 15 8 864,513 4 9 951,860 7 4 1,002,056 12 1 1,014,723 16 o 9,293 9,938 10,254 10,085 10,671 10,624 10,342 11,082 11.732 33.786 17 6 35,155 7 9 35.553 7 1 35,238 10 3 36,106 9 10 37,290 8 7 36,014 6 3 40,021 14 4 41.370 13 3 10,690 11,520 11,507 11,407 12,753 13.399 15,271 16,688 16,527 38,571 3 1 39,862 18 10 40,836 4 7 40,105 1 11 44,558 IO IO 48,533 15 II 59.304 9 6 63,800 4 10 62,159 10 8 175.517 184,058 203,266 215.359 229,689 245.377 265,178 283,114 286,369 680, 400 3 6 710,081 4 6 793.607 10 9 837.936 2 5 879.390 16 4 950,337 9 3 1,047,179 3 1 1,105,878 11 3 1,118,253 '9 11 903 273.535 1,108,067 5 8 13,035 49,181 1 3 17.777 68,340 8 8 304.347 1,225,588 15 7 [904 1905 :go6 907 908 281,655 287,394 301,650 305.424 338,752 1,148,226 3 o 1,189,385 13 4 1,312,270 13 4 1,389,800 4 4 1,611,968 4 11 11,567 10,338 10,314 10,315 10,970 45.793 1 1 47,649 9 o 50,559 18 10 55,032 3 3 58,499 19 11 ✓ 19,277 19,669 20,462 21,697 21,886 71,824 7 5 72,437 13 3 75,091 14 2 77,118 8 9 80,500 4 3 312.499 317,401 332,426 337.436 371,608 1,265,843 11 6 1,309,472 15 7 1,437,922 6 4 1,521,950 16 4 1,750,968 9 1

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Table No. 2. Table showing the Money-orders issued in New Zealand on Offices beyond the Dominion, and Money-orders issued at Offices beyond the Dominion on New Zealand, during the Years 1907 and 1908.

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Issued in HW Zealand. w1908. Where payable. Number. Amount. rvjumber. Amount. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices through United Kingdom United States of America Austria Canada Cape Colony Ceylon Fiji Germany Hong Kong India .. .. .. ... •■» Natal New South Wales Orange River Colony Queensland Samoa South Australia Straits Settlements Tasmania Tonga Transvaal Victoria Western Australia £ s-d. 144,011 2 7 55.436 £ s. d. 181,617 13 5 45,712 9.397 2,573 574 256 154 152 869 307 721 123 38,015 11 2,935 14 1,914 36 4.445 27 176 25,929 1.723 16,581 12 7 30.365 7 4 2,021 6 o 869 1 3 559 8 1 766 8 o 2,383 14 4 1,170 1 11 2,475 5 6 528 1 8 87,476 6 3 76 19 o 8,904 7 3 14 8 5 5,774 13 o "9 o 5 11,466 o 4 83 7 5 768 9 6 62,732 5 4 4,643 6 7 8,968 2,070 628 401 2l6 154 892 365 833 170 38,156 27 2,859 18 2,316 24 5,836 64 216 27,728 1.955 18,187 3 7 24,011 7 10 2,668 IO I 1,461 1 3 794 o 11 870 7 9 2,533 6 o 1,401 5 2 3,296 3 8 542 3 6 93,942 12 1 89 8 o 8,538 '<"' 9 58 19 3 6,266 10 8 53 9 10 14.563 2 o 342 6 11 944 10 3 71,683 3 7 4,849 19 5 Totals 136,063 383,790 12 9 M9,332 438,716 1 11 irawn on New Zealand. Where issued. 1901. Number. 1008. Amount. Number. Amount. 7,687 £ s- d. 38,289 4 9 8,351 £ *-d. 43.524 15 11 United Kingdom and Foreign Offices through United Kingdom United States of America Austria Canada Cape Colony Ceylon Fiji Germany Hong Kong India Natal New South Wales Orange River Colony Queensland Samoa South Australia Straits Settlements Tasmania Tonga Transvaal Victoria Western Australia 2,044 18 365 265 25 820 118 81 292 170 7.923 36 1.352 448 866 46 1,928 225 500 5,602 1,201 10,685 4 2 93 18 11 1,625 o 8 1,410 11 8 76 7 4 2,814 12 3 720 15 3 376 9 11 1,267 12 2 768 18 9 25,134 9 7 231 3 o 4,784 18 5 5,243 O 2 2,837 6 1 205 11 5 7,761 19 7 1,615 15 1 3,102 3 9 18,004 I2 I 5,100 17 O 1.975 17 536 246 5i 724 144 65 224 104 8,138 23 1,589 483 957 40 1.764 378 446 5.424 1.177 9,134 18 11 56 16 10 2,993 19 5 1,519 10 4 169 6 7 2,976 16 4 739 6 8 307 15 o 1,138 8 2 578 8 8 25.645 19 8 136 15 o 5.349 9 10 5,044 1 7 3.307 5 4 171 19 2 6,617 19 7 3.652 5 11 2,901 12 1 17,082 16 9 5,949 16 5 Totals 32,856 139,000 4 2 32,012 132,150 12 o

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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, 1909.

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Year. At Is. Number of Postal Notes sold. Total. At Is. 6d. At 2s. At 2s. 6d. At 3s. At 5s. At 7s. 6d. At 10s. At 12s. 6d. At 15s. At 17b. 6d. At £1. At £5.' Number. Value. Quarter ended Mar. 31,1886 3,019 2,046 1,012 2,039 969 2,379 695 992 425 2,866 16,442 £ s. d. 6,909 15 6 1886-87 16,605 12,283 6,647 11,566 5,729 13,103 4,090 5,187 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 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 I 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 j 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 i 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 37,771 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 1896-97 74,534 j 62,056 35,322 54,219 24,871 51,963 14,365 18,102 7,406 32,868 1,090 376,796 129,011 18 0 1897-98 81,958 69,981 38,617 60,843 26,968 55,748 15,463 19,477 7,904 32,179 728 409,866 134,378 9 6 1898-99 .. .. ' 86,529 72,710 41,991 64,386 28,448 59,631 16,202 19,990 8,193 32,696 673 431,449 139,957 4 0 1899-1900 I 93,762 : 77,431 44,384 70,416 30,680 63,787 16,957 21,393 8,539 33,491 607 461,447 147,686 8 6 1900-1901 85,478 68,068 13,834 52,691 14,702 80,630 24,497 71,001 13,304 23,875 6,799 35,067 560 490,506 154,435 16 6 1901-1902 49,529 30,255 62,285 70,683 65,467 109,663 92,708 4ft 32,128 43,042 556 556,316 173,317 5 0 1902-1903 54,268 33,409 70,122 76,613 75,700 119,593 102,641 34,508 48,852 558 616,264 191,904 13 0 1903-1904 61,379 37,514 85,909 86,626 89,276 134,270 114,755 38,030 58,629 656 707,044 220,069 11 0 1904-1905 65,484 40,263 86,711 96,228 99,739 154,281 130,430 42,317 69,206 688 785,347 250,123 7 6 ' 1905-1906 74,389 45,358 98,503 108,493 114,411 167,430 143,216 46,228 76,508 788 875,324 276,279 7 6 1906-1907 ! _. .__ 82,417 54,375 106,311 120,321 128,384 187,083 159,045 51,559 91,193 954 981,642 314,053 6 0 1907-1908 89,906 • 58,202 124,052 136,392 143,854 205,500 171,951 57,637 104,714 423 1,092,631 347,300 0 0 1908-1909 97,285 59,484 153,925 162,588 146,148 227,471 188,677 62,916 123,786 1,222,280 389,143 0 0 * Issued only from 17tb June, 1895 to 31st October, 1907.

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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 1908.

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Money-orders. Savings-banks. Office. Issued. Paid. 4> 3 C ZO -_> " Q. De No. Deposits. eposits. Amount. ■ c _ SI u u Withdrawals. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. UCKLAND Ahuroa Aitutaki Aoroa Aratapu Auckland Harbour A von dale Awhitu Batley Birkenhead Bombay Cabbage Bay .. Cambridge Clevedon Coromandel Dargaville Devonport Drury East Lynn Ellerslie Fanning Island Grey Lynn Gumtown Hamilton Helensville Henderson Herekino Hikurangi Hinuera Hoanga Howick Hukerenui Huntly Kaeo Kaihu Kaikohe Kaipara Flats .. Kaitaia Kaiwaka Kakahi Kamo Kaukapakapa .. Kawakawa Kawhia Kihikihi Kinohaku Kiripaka Kohukohu Kuaotunu . .. Leigh Limestone Makatote Mamaku Mangaia Mangapai Mangawai Mangawhare .. Mangonui Manunui Mareretu Matakana Matakohe Matamata Matiere Maungakaramea Maungaturoto.. Mercer Mititai Mokai Morrinsville .. Mount Eden .. Mount Roskill.. Naumai Newmarket Newton Ngaruawahia .. / s. d. 29,239 1,086 15 o 80 149 101 5 19 6 210 469 685 12 12 9 £ »• d. 141.552 13 11 266 9 6 1.357 11 3 816 1 6 2,302 16 10 61,871 7 162 67 184 £ s. d. 277,832 1 10 26 5 8 1,629 5 9 305 16 6 836 13 o 6,301 2 49,76i 34 £ s. d. 1059466 II o 266 II o 6,380 3 58,520 13 £ s. d. 1193596 3 1 157 15 9 i6 50 134 445 542 o o 6,213 14 o 11 16 75 174 530 1 3 4,362 11 3 266 676 78 o 19 o 48 140 245 483 239 4 9 6 1,766 38 7 o 326 636 1,009 16 6 9 2,1 14 130 19 9 753 18 15 o 284 5 17 3 778 9 10 160 13 3 102 o 6 961 13 8 962 5 1 8,049 3- 4 1.237 4 1 3.170 14 9 13.405 3 4 2,469 o 3 1,023 13 6 289 20 14 59 30 1.349 103 701 748 1,224 142 1,118 10 5 82 9 11 97 *i 8 o 249 7 11 158 o 8 6,614 7 6 45i 2 3 2,415 19 7 3,674 o 11 5.235 14 1 750 9 10 23 4 3 41 17 10 218 24 56 182 335 17 3 no 166 78 1.732 207 429 1.545 1 1124 188 2 187 67 4OO 128 3.605 483 64 52 521 25 99 170 227 1,191 140 224 286 91 296 65 200 199 222 347 172 229 21 92 298 72 54 20 432 308 1,834 14 4 474 2 6 3 15 o 324 4 o 2,307 19 7 601 4 o 24,756 11 5 1,794 1 7 5,892 14 2 29,143 16 1 9,084 3 4 1,929 10 2 7 15 o 1,079 o o 1,346 10 o 1,698 19 7 2,739 9 6 55,649 5 10 4.317 15 7 656 19 3 627 19 11 4,637 19 6 81 19 o 494 4 4 1,386 17 o 1,860 3 4 10,857 18 n 1,421 15 7 1.844 5 1 3.379 11 o 1,194 7 o 3,292 1 2 1,144 '7 0 2,241 14 10 1,97 1 o o 1.745 9 9 3.438 4 5 2,574 15 5 2,778 14 2 662 9 10 664 4 5 2,701 15 4 615 3 o 665 13 9 63 6 o 5.5o6 12 5 2,039 4 8 4 1 4 5 74 5 23 120 24 4 44 13 5 85 31 746 76 290 854 195 71 434 18 o 512 19 5 35 9 o 938 11 9 37i 5 4 17,965 16 9 963 2 4 4,279 14 6 26,412 10 1 3.040 o 4 1,150 19 8 130 13 186 3 18 3 63 4 3 9 323 7 13 9 265 11 18 3 3,733 78 16 p 657 13 5 o 109 1 11 6 120 1 17 3 - 755 12 11 o 60 119 117 1 16 o 127 259 488 750 1.701 34 3 9 281 4 11 3 651 11 1 o 428 21 6 9 196 363 663 15 14 6 106 226 205 4 5 6 248 409 211 406 498 923 501 8 10 o 339 5 19 6 208 3 4 9 313 5 18 3 569 12 9 9 477 8 6 6 50 o 16 3 29 o 11 3 402 11 90 1,203 18 12 6 163 5 12 6 175 3 15 o 262 826 112 223 800 19 7 9 56i 9 14 3 4 013 375 780 250 4°9 671 11 20 159 286 566 18 9 347 6 7 1,053 19 o 1.536 16 7 13.5" 9 4 2,446 10 11 241 7 2 301 13 4 2,452 5 » 281 13 7 324 1 9 319 5 11 1,552 9 6 6,259 3 5 779 10 1 2,568 17 5 2,534 4 9 647 18 9 2,613 18 5 360 16 11 778 15 3 631 15 3 735 2 7 1,801 4 7 1,592 2 6 1,156 17 o 796 15 7 1,236 2 1 2,387 16 7 2,007 7 9 124 13 8 80 16 o 2,113 4 8 3,727 15 3 1,234 15 9 651 3 8 1,126 4 10 333 10 6 3,024 11 4 1,990 7 6 4 14 8 1,225 19 o 777 1 11 3.697 9 9 610 7 10 274 1 425 89 2,555 290 80 3 156 11 14 112 74 348 122 109 58 35 "5 13 22 158 42 217 170 102 29 18 9i 63 1,022 o 10 293 1,821 2 o 1,522 8 2 12,986 6 7 1,627 3 10 387 2 3 14 4 o 828 1 4 43 17 6 62 17 2 594 6 8 353 3 3 1,520 17 n 1.354 3 11 828 4 9 273 9 6 150 9 4 796 6 4 150 13 6 135 3 8 766 6 2 229 7 3 801 2 8 859 19 o 414 3 1 177 10 6 77 10 6 582 19 1 465 10 10 69 4 n 35 8 28 21 516 58 12 26 7i 1 9 3' 27 133 24 39 23 10 27 6 18 16 12 42 28 10 6 2 194 36 20 11 13 36 5 12 12 2 11 1 5 5 I !_ 14 18 2 2 10 70 3 42 52 1,878 219 12 3 209 17 14 91 67 5i6 57 88 no 29 137 22 33 153 77 169 123 150 22 380 o 4 330 o o 643 15 1 775 4 5 45,128 9 6 3.170 19 6 93 14 o 39 10 o 2,776 1 10 231 8 o 229 19 o 363 7 7 781 3 2 7,656 8 6 1,026 13 n 1.014 3 7 1,831 7 8 671 18 3 2,739 8 3 584 11 3 391 2 7 3.627 8 n 667 10 o 3,091 16 3 1,294 13 4 2,260 10 10 533 18 5 249 10 7 2,079 11 10 733 6 o 491 10 o 33 7 8 34 6 10 10 5i 39 4 24 120 3° 22 16 "87 95 213 20 43 56 195 45 1 82 55 M5 22 421 3 10 478 19 8 760 on 93 17 6 337 18 o 213 3 2 870 12 7 277 7 6 2 10 o 734 7 9 469 3 10 616 8 4 198 15 7 3 15 14 38 69 35 152 125 23i 296 812 3 o 2,616 16 7 798 7 11 3.378 4 1 2,586 12 5 13 6 6 5 2 14 6 "82 67 46 64 21 155 78 1 46 63 81 9 864' 5 7 1,076 9 8 1,105 2 4 1,420 10 4 45i 11 9 3.477 11 5 950 16 4 500 1,441 18 o 1,832 18 9 2,m 19 10 179 3 7 12 24 25 11 92 133 168 19 1,701 19 o 2,217 o 6 1,417 1 4 432 3 9 1 3 9 4 295 529 407 706 164 2 17 6 495 11 o 9 597 11 15 o 296 5 8 91 142 316 81 199 1,184 30 5 3 2,174 55 " 3 750 13 9 o 1.134 7 9 1.361 3 7 638 4 3 1,936 13 1 2,162 8 9 696 2 2 223 17 3 256 11 1 3,354 4 7 6,210 15 2 2,504 3 2 "83 122 30 30 261 357 200 3 830 2,008 446! 332 10 3 539 14 3 220 1 4' 167 6 8 1,109 o 6 1,870 2 5 840 13 7 8 16 8 3.367 17 2 7.270 13 9 1,846 9 o 15 32 8 72 60 50 13 3 163 346 58 163 188 19 517 292 389 97 20 1,516 3,982 507 2,197 2 o 2,327 15 n 136 14 o 4.139 10 5 3.055 6 1 1.503 1 4 465 12 1 118 o o 10,334 12 7 27,654 14 5 5,630 n 1 7 7 6 14 19 6 69 73 23 120 160 58 13 1,172 1 1 890 19 5 1,261 3 4 761 8 11 2,929 9 5 664 16 5 80 8 8 44 o o 1,640 10 5 4,211 11 7 4,491 18 7 28 17' 353" 42 20

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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 1908 — continued.

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Money-orders. Savings-banks. Office. Issue. Commission. L, Paid. _h y o c Z- •> u Q. <° Deposits. 5 7. Withdrawals. No. Amount. No. I Amount. No. Amount. s! VJ u < No. Amount. .UCKLAND — COtltd. Niue Northcote Ohaeawai Ohaupo Ohura Okaihau Okoroire Onehunga Onewhero Ongarue Opononi Opua Otahuhu Otorohanga Pahi .. Papakura Paparoa Papat oetoe Parnell Parua Bay Penrhyn Island Piopio Pirongia Pokeno Ponsonby Poroti Port Albert Port Fitzroy .. Puhoi Pukekohe Putaruru Quay Street Raglan Rangiriri Rarotonga Raupo Raurimu Rawene Rehia Rotorua Ruawai Russell Saies Strand Arcade Taheke Tairua Takapuna Tangiteroria .. Tangowahine .. Taumarunui .. Taupiri Taupo Te Awamutu .. Tehana Te Kopuru TeKuiti Te Mata Te Rauamoa .. Te Uku Tirau Tokatoka Towai Tuakau Upper Symonds Street Wade Waerenga Waharoa Waiharara Waihopo Waihou Waikumete Waimamaku .. Waipu Waiuku Waiwera Waotu 57 224 333 288 434 139 112 983 234 84 150 92 569 700 169 384 254 127 624 291 8 £ s. d. 229 5 3 3 5 11 6 509 7 16 9 2 17 6 2 3 3 25 11 3 4 7 0 1 10 3 329 206 11 46 n 50 4 1 3 10 1 6 506 211 9 15 4 3 5 7 3 063 263 4 8 9 2 14 3 28 2 O 5 18 9 8 3 9 1 o 3 0 13 9 15 4 6 IO II o 1 14 o 6 11 o 2 14 o 16 3 6 4 16 3 20 7 6 7 11 3 1 15 o 59 19 o 0 13 o 6 14 9 1 19 3 70 16 6 190 14 8 3 ■ 9 3 1 18 o 5 1 o 46 11 o 3 17 6 969 12 16 9 £ s. d. 509 16 1 689 9 2 1,090 15 2 918 17 9 2,640 6 7 570 12 II 404 4 1 3,293 10 o 855 10 3 384 11 7 497 15 4 362 18 7 1,609 16 o 2,592 14 6 572 18 5 1.373 15 7 829 7 4 382 14 11 1,722 11 o 979 18 o 22 7 8 525 10 6 944 9 11 539 16 6 2.923 13 2 783 8 11 1,073 14 11 232 12 6 148 16 IO 2,840 17 1 2,440 5 6 128 13 3 1,313 18 o 484 12 2 3.742 19 3 991 5 1 4.203 7 10 1,460 10 1 378 1 3 11,764 13 7 127 o 3 1,302 5 5 186 11 1 9."3 3 ° 244 n 10 2.924 7 4 200 18 9 438 5 11 909 2 1 11,872 3 7 692 12 11 2,112 9 6 3.054 13 2 7 201 69 104 80 32 50 1.447 30 n 71 41 567 185 44 180 172 45 945 73 1 8 "5 49 1,911 22 90 24 22 306 167 £ s. d. 67 o 5 771 6 2 275 19 8 379 19 6 884 16 11 198 14 3 225 17 o 5,776 17 7 131 2 1 85 9 o •439 5 5 404 6 o 2,012 8 1 1,202 14 5 158 3 10 921 o 5 609 10 6 314 o 1 3.424 2 2 542 2 o 030 82 2 4 606 10 8 186 18 1 7.035 14 1 92 on 444 9 2 76 15 5 93 11 7 1,287 12 2 633 1 2 z8 427 12 149 23 194 37 "3 14 96 8 41 131 1,002 25 109 8 35 10 75 5 76 99 925 51 252 8 76 15 171 18 167 12 172 104 1,407 7 91 £ s. d. 761 14 o 1,283 10 o I,8l2 12 10 3,312 18 9 1,114 17 o 273 12 5 10,270 8 4 1,296 9 6 193 12 3 1,218 11 o 904 15 o 5,507 4 o 2,904 5 9 694 6 o 2,254 6 7 2,697 '8 o 1,523 9 9 7,154 2 6 979 14 o 4 5 5 i 2 31 3 75 36 33 304 45 _ 53 60 75 69 36 33 304 45 4 38 19. 244 229 38 97 80 35 142 59 5; £ s. d. 360 13 3 1.378 9 3 1,131 19 2 2,125 6 6 920 18 1 290 13 6 5,093 11 5 1,056 9 6 18 10 o 336 9 3 195 17 5 2,579 11 7 3,519 13 11 599 16 2 1,514 19 10 2,412 14 1 382 6 5 1,096 12 6 938 o o 4 2 26 29 5 5 5 2 4 38 19 244 229 38 97 80 35 142 59 30 127 274 146 1,079 178 319 61 46 783 588 31 37° 120 47i 264 907 397 117 3.240 40 384 56 2,425 97 647 75 "3 3io 2,224 215 490 669 5 19 37 234 9 72 181 1,896 15 103 19 226 3 7 11 68 68 644 37 230 190 16 o 2,355 15 4 1,184 17 o 9.579 10 3 1.734 5 9 3.387 1 5 12 8 o 1,800 14 7 12,003 10 9 2,513 19 3 I 11 4 31 6 7 1 6 30 4 M 92 37 187 56 81 6 38 304 78 14 92 37 187 56 81 6 38 304 78 354 18 9 1,142 11 11 666 8 5 1,644 11 11 331 17 6 '.737 15 6 272 13 5 1,326 1 9 7.824 1 8 835 14 10 132 47 586 29 683 11 n 132 4 4 5,075 11 o 128 14 11 1,177 1 o 758 9 6 15 14 1 10,687 9 4 33 1 3 698 12 6 89 12 1 235 19 6 81 16 3 522 17 8 184 10 8 85 17 10 236 7 1 3,067 15 5 405 4 4 1,114 5 o 1,697 11 1 21 155 10 56 1,377 6 6 498 7 1 13 "87 29 "87 29 1,880 19 705 9 7 129 162 5 2,083 Q 12 93 55 706 29 224 5 45 265 2,213 3 8 27 156 13 120 78 995 22 76 32 190 8 74 15 51 24 258 178 1,138 19 109 26 182 85 611 752 3 o 8,116 11 10 2,804 2 6 202 13 o 22,928 12 7 75 16 o 2,003 9 8 2,254 8 o 8,439 6 o 527 3 6 2,143 o o 418 13 o 497 4 o 827 4 o 27,870 8 2 1,084 6 1 2,210 6 11 11,049 10 10 *6 13 12 1 120 27 118 93 n 1.137 5 27 118 93 n ,137 5 96 47 2 20 68 40 15 48 .515 53 102 265 219 367 23 18 29 68 38 35 94 123 552 12 o 1,917 17 3 1,466 14 3 115 9 6 17.499 14 4 212 o o 1,700 16 2 893 4 3 o 17 o 385 I 2 970 16 8 422 13 1 250 o 11 458 2 10 n,240 14 3 878 13 4 2,085 7 11 8,541 o 10 4,295 12 6 9,851 15 4 401 9 4 381 4 7 496 4 o 1,907 1 2 357 10 3 304 9 6 1,269 14 8 1.7i6 3 5 9 145 29 "8 5 91 23 3 15 9 1 11 45 6 9 36 39 9 42 460 86 169 362 '872 1.506 132 67 23 143 197 327 386 1,263 21 15 6 28 12 3 1 18 o 1 o 6 096 289 403 6 17 o 659 31 2 9 3,130 13 10 6,633 12 8 380 o 10 3" 12 5 116 7 1 561 18 4 680 13 6 1.425 5 4 1,258 7 2 2,933 18 o 198 396 29 15 21 1,115 4 4 2,735 16 4 163 3 o no 15 6 120 13 o 265 11 4 118 18 10 125 19 6 596 5 9 1,728 2 6 49 594 127 584 2 14 7 13 9 53 23 149 9 91 28 89 20 171 no 1,370 5,869 10 7 12,391 10 o 128 1 o 1.029 1 3 435 12 o 2,893 14 5 687 18 o 760 10 o 1,224 10 2 6,046 16 8 22 29 3 2 1 6 59 30 35 "9 452 4 7 9 17 187 9i 135 205 668 252 21 620 266 220 4 1 9 30 12 o 3 15 3 0 14 9 2 14 6 15 3 3 17 2 o 1 12 6 1 8 3 672 13 o 387 17 11 398 8 11 619 9 o 4,046 6 11 962 o 2 85 9 2 568,10 10 3,37i 14 5 3,061 13 o 312 12 2 331 I 4 84 5i 39 37 106 48 82 12 159 211 30 34 302 18 4 291 9 8 231 16 11 331 11 6 1,710 12 2 317 17 9 187 13 9 27 10 7 795 15 11 1.435 3 11 176 2 3 136 4 6 12 100 8 48. 14 77 12 31 12 84 12 85 2 20 15 177 28 260 69 577 13 98 1.758 14 3 605 11 o 417 1 6 389 4 9 984 12 6 519 17 o 96 9 o 1.853 1 5 5."3 13 4 8,596 3 o 604 6 1 109 1 o II 7 1 1 10 27 23 33 29 108 54 3 34 186 256 12 '51 268 13 o 307 4 1 410 17 4 43i 2 1 2,026 6 11 2,042 10 8 6 3 10 788 16 o 3.798 14 2 4.962 1 5 '37 1 3 120 14 2 252 915 808 96 95 18 I

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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 1908 — continued.

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Money-orders. Savings-banks. Office. Issued. Paid. Dc No. Deposits. e posits. Amount. ■ s _ u o < Withdrawals. No. Amount. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. Auckland — ctd. Warkworth Wellsford West Lynn Whakapara Whakapirau .. Whakarewarewa Whangarei Whangaroa Wharekawa Whatawhata .. Whitford Whitianga Blenheim Havelock Kekerangu Mahakipawa .. Picton Renwicktown .. Seddon Spring Creek .. Wairau Valley Christchurch .. Addington Akaroa Amberley Ashburton Bealey Belfast Broken River .. Chertsey Cheviot Coalgate Culverden Cust Darfield Dunsandel Duvauchelle .. East Oxford .. Ellesmere Glentunnel Greendale Halswell Hanmer Springs High Street Hinds Hornby Hororata Islington Kaiapoi Kaikoura Kirwee Leeston Lincoln Linwood Little Akaloa .. Little River .. Lyttelton Mayfield Methven Mount Somers.. New Brighton .. Ohoka Oxford Papanui Pigeon Bay Prebbleton Rakaia Rangiora Rolleston St. Albans Scargill Sefton Sheffield Southbridge Springfield Springston Railway Sumner 819 3 10 30 395 197 84 3.110 141 103 69 59 1,089 3.702 937 92 153 i,47i 162 497| 288 20,710 424 1 643 263 3.531 117 158 1.173 127 746 120 228 "4 148 133 143 216 26 122 72 25 683 2,633 115 69 97 231 735 . 1,290 146 469 117 537 5i 474 1 2,328 60 592 178 '53 58 456 299 1 79 57' 875 1,118 44 375 "5 141 262 235 300 101 / s. d. 20 5 9 6 11 9 0 13 3 6 3 9 3 14 3 1 15 o 64 2 6 276 8 12 9 1 3 3 126 18 1 3 82 3 6j 17 4 3 2 7 3 2 19 o 27 16 o 3 8 3 11 6 6 6 3 3 0 12 6 671 7 o 8 11 o 12 17 6 5 ' #76 13 9 2 14 9 3 9 6 20 5 3 1 17 3 14 2 6 276 570 276 2 16 g 3 I "9 2 14 3 3 3 3 0100 2 II o 1 9 9 0 10 9 12 1 3 70 10 6 240 III o! 240 5 19 6 15 10 o; 21 17 3 1 286 920 2 15 o 12 17 6 1 8 o 986 72 3 6 1 10 6 12 9 3 3 14 o 3 5 3 1 1 6 6 14 o 6 19 3 1 12 3 169 15 8 9 23 13 3 1 8 3 8 18 o 2 17 6 2 13 o 4 17 o 4 4 3 509 220 / s. d. 1 3,172 10 4 1 1,085 7 10 1 82 9 8 1 1,391 18 7 I 645 9 6 1 266 9 6 1 12,901 18 8 1 367 8 11 I 759 12 II 282 15 2 122 I 3 4,IIOII O 'j 15.519 3 o 3.403 12-9 400 6 4 455 17 5 1 4.845 4 3 555 2 5 1 1,857 19 4 I 1,018 7 1 123 II 9 1 94,906 1 9 1,065 9 5 2,378 10 4 1 948 17 IO 13,506 19 8 i 1 482 13 8 1 467 16 3 4.716 10 8 389 14 7 ' 3,853 2 o 518 13 IO 1.705 3 1 355 4 8 611 5 3 577 5 4 509 18 9 696 14 1 107 8 5 588 2 4 245 4 o 63 3 9 2,540 1 8 1 8,458 1 4 377 3 o 196 13 n 392 2 3 558 18 9 1 2,817 13 5 / 7,184 11 10 1 417 o 6 1 2,125 J 6 337 1 11 1 1,206 16 o 1 213 19 5 1 2,198 4 6 i 9,042 6 2 i 206 15 2 2,664 IO 6 1 610 19 10 i 365 2 5 i 209 16 5 1 1,578 4 7 I 894 2 8 1 220 10 1 1 279 12 10 1 3.354 9 6 I 3.865 5 11 I 176 18 8 > 1.014 2 3 . 370 16 5 ) 465 2 10 ) 985 11 1 I 716 9 6 ) 1,030 5 7 ' 345 11 2 264 50 22 43 46 37 1,616 106 8 40 37 193 2,180 187 7 11 679 63 106 86 1 32,704 272 251 142 1,711 n 86 47 59 144 33 114 36 61 45 45 98 11 £ s. d.l 1,097 17 xx 239 6 8 146 2 3 188 16 3 no 4 6 144 16 3 7.430 17 8 472 11 5 87 11 11 129 14 2 180 * 3 9 1,262 13 7 13.-65 18 n 884 1 6 16 1 9 23 o 6 3.456 19 3 356 17 o 412 11 7 308 15 7 1 1 6 179,944 8 10 994 13 5 1,163 11 n 444 4 2 7,986 1 1 87 18 1 390 10 11 249 15 3 205 10 7 689 13 11 123 7 5 1,057 16 4 252 8 9 290 15 o 255 12 5 124 19 7 335 17 1 "3 11 3 120 18 7 35 12 3 88 17 5 725 6 7 255 9 6 78 19 4 109 2 n 208 12 4 78 14 9 2,334 4 2 1,631 4 o 96 13 11 768 6 11 838 16 8 2,120 19 7 146 1 6 545 11 5 5.386 14 5 220 13 3 497 14 10 226 15 2 490 1 5 62 13 5 C37 19 8 1.451 4 5 141 2 4 288 11 1 998 1 8 2,954 9 7 76 4 3 1.334 3 8 142 7 10 496 11 5 865 11 5 305 16 9 1,114 2 3 123 6 3 301 7 12 13 4 42 679 62 2 3 i77 25 69 20 6 7.287 85 78 39 457 19 32 53 11 42 13 26 3i 15 14 17 22 7 10 112 49 6 14 11 859 267 46 153 94 40 3.048 87 89 42 25 355 5.832 523 15 28 1,231 165 450 173 12 83,022 651 777 407 4.253 95 223 267 101 447 58 167 186 "4 185 112 192 51 118 36 49 352 3,028 62 125 75 95 1.79i 639 96 617 207 1,232 52 306 3.435 127 330 106 466 52 227 535 62 33 472 2,280 33 784 no 136 161 349 139 114 £ s. d. 6,675 17 7 3,618 12 9 447 o o 1,181 6 6 620 16 6 246 10 o 44.330 6 1 1,739 o o 2,144 7 4 233 2 o 324 6 o 3.625 4 11 106,879 2 3 5,397 3 5 129 4 o 189 2 o 14.143 8 4 1,330 6 6 4.625 6 8 1,272 2 3 150 10 o 1274164 6 5 2,M5 9 6 12,161 8 4 7.243 I 5 49,757 15 2 955 13 6 1,045 1 o 2,576 4 8 802 18 o 5.307 18 2 887 6 o 4,086 18 n 1,694 18 I 1.773 1 6 2,970 2 2 2,000 6 2 2.626 2 7 948 19 8 915 8 o 608 11 2 199 17 o 3.777 19 9 22,755 3 o 534 16 11 944 10 1 767 11 o 477 9 3 19.581 13 4 11,098 13 10 1,002 o o 11,139 16 7 1,795 16 10 5,255 13 o 1,191 2 o 7.230 8 9 30,799 3 8 866 13 1 4,427 10 1 1,413 4 8 2,075 9 6 422 5 6 2,993 1 o 5,027 15 in 857 9 1 617 10 o| 6,624 8 10 45.569 9 3 266 8 o 4.141 3 5 1,891 o 7 i,3 01 3 ° 1,745 15 2 4.838 11 2 1,954 4 11 1.444 4 7 14 4 6,786 13 34 20 232 2 5 3 14 3 5 4 2 1 122 2 1 18 681 21 1 3 5 7 i 5 71 197 20 11 54 36 19 1.550 40 4 46 21 186 4.947 233 6 16 534 36 106 35 1 73.6H 153 35i 141 2,057 21 38 40 63 149 22 73 56 23 58 62 60 n 37 16 16 £ s. d. 3,752 7 2 3" 7 8 133 15 10 744 o 3 519 7 3 112 17 8 36,656 13 3 629 o 11 131 19 o 1,008 II o 89 12 5 2,342 12 9 120,628 17 3 5,966 18 o 26 10 7 225 16 2 9,917 2 4 226 11 11 1,230 2 2 309 7 10 300 1413428 13 3 820 13 o 12,187 15 II 4,740 8 1 43.413 O 2 170 10 8 131 14 2 527 6 2 1,580 3 6 3.932 11 o 425 1 2 1,914 12 10 526 14 1 394 O IO 2,476 19 4 1,609 3 8 2,034 " 3 167 9 o 929 18 3 229 17 10 71 11 11 2,351 7 IO 1,217 14 9 247 13 9 521 9 0 664 6 11 ■49 15 3 17.835 6 6 7.518 4 2 764 4 7 6,429 18 6 1,816 17 2 1,220 6 2 448 9 11 2,126 18 10 17,097 16 10 513 18 10 2,422 6 4 372 14 8 721 11 o 184 19 n 1.472 4 7 1,042 19 10 137 IO o 84 7 0 3.951 9 10 37,686 15 7 34 o o 708 9 8 1.075 19 5 1.303 5 1 1,710 14 7 2,179 18 2 296 10 10 652 2 4 34 7 10 no 65 17 29 36 31 512 346 34 164 134 5°4 21 118 1,211 19 101 44 109 26 128 276 25 54 254 727 18 361 20 138 • 109 73 270 41 9 6 38 178 4 13 12 4 2 2 14 171 8 62 II 102 5 40 322 20 43 15 27 8 39 60 11 2 1 1 3 56 47 1 22 3 18 1 n 122 1 18 114 109 33 19 32 25 704 283 46 211 54 167 19 138 1,055 3° 116 28 84 17 78 64 6 1 6 3 10 11 10 3 64 256 19 114 162 1,157, io| n 7; 25 5I I 109 57 33 61 25 20 17 52 19 15 5 1 3 13 11 10 2 179' 3 15 6 > 568 2 o 163 1,068 11 10 34 523 2,770 11 10 IO 160, 1,469 17 3

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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 1908 — continued.

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Money-orders. Saving! -banks. Office. Issued. Paid. V _ c Deposits. 2 . With s _ o * U O %» No. Withdrawals. hdrawals. Amount. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. Christchurch— ctd Sydenham Templeton Tinwald Upper Riccarton Waiau Waikari Waipara Whitecliffs Woodend Woolston Dunedin Alexandra South Allanton Balclutha Bannockburn .. Caversham Clinton Clyde Cromwell Dunback Dunedin North Gimmerburn Green Island .. Hawea Flat Heriot Hyde Kaitangata Kelso Kokonga Lawrence Lovell's Flat .. Macrae's Flat .. Matakanui Middlemarch .. Miller's Flat .. Milton Mornington Mosgiel Naseby North-east Valley Ophir Oturehua Outram Owaka Palmerston Patearoa Pembroke Port Chalmers Portobello Puerua Ranfurly Roslyn Roxburgh St. Bathan's .. Seacliff South Dunedin Stirling Tapanui Waihola Waikaia Waikoikoi Waikouaiti Waipiata Waipori Waitahuna Waitati Waiwera South Wedderburn .. Gisborne Matawai Motu.. Patutahi Port Awanui .. Te Araroa .. . Te Karaka Tokomaru Bay Tolaga Bay 1,238 no 109 171 500 269 133 118 78 236 17.736 1.34i 150 1,968 59 773 749 585 820 192 1.746 114 144 118 299 313 1,401 278 206 97 276 172 660 295 1,124 201 796 942 254 444 290 304 1.445 £ »■ d. 32 o 3 220 1 14 9 4 9 3 7 7 9 5 16 6 2 11 3 1 13 o 1 12 o 603 541 16 o 21 19 o 2 3 3 32 o 9 1 5 6 17 9 6 11 13 6 9 12 6 15 5 9 2 17 6 46 5 3 1 12 9 2 17 9 1 19 3 630 4 4° 26 15 6 5 1 3 329 22 15 3 1 17 9 3 18 o 2 3 3 10 12 9 5 12 6 21 7 o 5 6 3 15 7 3 14 o o 4'7 9 5 19 3 4 3 0 6 5 3 22 15 6 16 9 3 3 17 o 3 12 o 45 8 9 196 226 6 3 9 969 13 7 o 5 18 o 5 13 3 1229 5 10 o 1306 2 7 3 23 7 3 o 16 3 9 19 6 3°9 229 5 1 9 4 19 3 050 2 14 3 201 6 o o 16 o 2 17 o 240 4 11 o 086 989 8 15 6 13 6 6 / s. d. 3,682 7 2 443 o 8 262 8 8 517 18 9 3.409 8 1 1,101 6 o 413 9 6 234 1 1 247 13 10 702 o 1 81,217 6 8 4.58i 13 7 419 6 8 7,067. 7 11 216 12 10 2,061 3 6 2,269 7 1 2,056 16 7 2,671 2 4 855 4 3 5,o68 4 7 389 15 4 445 3 11 460 19 7 930 12 7 972 15 2 4.405 12 O I,019 15 I 833 15 I 4.789 17 2 321 16 O 741 5 o 518 18 4 2,542 19 o i,i39 1 7 4,044 8 11 533 1 3 2,095 19 9 4,660 13 2 592 12 2 1,697 7 8 901 5 1 1,075 9 11 5,064 3 3 3.852 2 4 826 7 1 612 7 3 5.722 9 4 292 13 2 538 15 10 1,565 8 7 972 18 o 3."3 9 7 1,677 19 5 1,087 o 2 1,638 3 3 884 9 10 2,642 19 8 424 15 9 5.3i6 2 3 168 15 4 2,211 1 4 892 3 2 348 18 11 1,131 1 11 909 15 o 29 14 11 668 17 1 33.931 5 4 183 1 7 406 14 9 356 19 10 930 11. 10 64 18 7 1.743 11 o 1,783 o 9 2,591 9 3 1,052 52 42 133 67 108 3° 18 41 229 35,285 398 3i 77i 3 564 130 283 285 48 558 7 139 n 83 4 1 347 5i 24 689 33 18 29 159 60 922 280 612 375 261 101 129 "7 290 536 21 41 891 39 77 72 386 225 130 322 877 198 192 40 112 / s. d. 3,946 16 10 186 1 10 191 11 1 886 14 11 325 13 9 465 10 9 113 12 2 54 '4 7 126 4 3 805 14 5 158,578 10 8 1.565 6 I 188 8 4 3,384 8 9 16 5 o 2,201 13 n 640 14 5 1,193 6 1 1,426 3 9 194 5 9 1,997 5 6 32 14 2 558 9 7 76 2 3 482 17 6 204 11 6 i,337 12 6 214 14 10 in 10 o 2.570 8 9 132 16 9 75 8 o 116 19 4 672 19 8 212 18 4 3,423 12 6 1,389 11 9 2.571 16 5 1,561 5 6 994 6 9 881 1 8 303 16 2 680 11 4 1,578 12 11 2,631 15 5 89 12 9 159 18 3 3.630 2 o 165 1 3 388 7 5 286 4 10 1,761 4 1 960 11 9 590 6 10 1,207 8 8 3,336 4 1 473 3 1 667 14 4 175 17 11 566 17 8 25 19 7 1,263 9 6 117 11 6 72 3 2 704 II 8 321 11 9 11 06 186 o 6 18,904 12 6 5 5 0 118 o 10 55 13 6 220 11 6 18 6 8 335 4 1 620 19 2 760 18 7 325 17 _ 4 20 34 22 6 6 11 42 5,103 64 13 141 5 137 59 28 72 13 428 2 36 13 17 Q y 101 20 11 97 9 3 29 28 150 95 127 26 63 19 6 4.177 102 79 172 261 238 58 82 95 602 58,229 753 124 993 24 1,867 338 206 547 83 5.989 34 321 45 156 55 910 93 73 806 42 275 185 1,221 1.339 1.236 296 612 149 37 223 588 739 £ s. d. 20,280 7 6 798 2 6 383 2 o 1,862 10 o 2,904 7 1 3,140 2 9 1,282 15 10 1,045 9 o 1,242 9 o 2,830 4 o 879.766 4 5 9,129 16 5 1,489 6 2 19.455 6 6 no 3 o 9,606 7 10 6,112 8 o 2,874 1 5 5,856 10 1 1.674 17 5 35,548 6 o 257 11 3 2,662 19 o 324 13 o 1,539 11 4 648 1 o 10,382 o 9 1,503 11 3 1,428 13 6 15,640 8 6 768 18 o 413 10 o 3.509 7 6 2,042 11 5 18,668 io 10 4.559 11 9 14.454 4 6 3.885 16 2 2,254 16 1 i,532 19 7 556 13 4 3.340 16 3 9,297 19 9 12,306 10 11 37 2 3 2 6 15 2 4 19 4.783 35 3 52 34 24 10 21 13 »9 8 2 9 2 44 5 1 33 4 1 5 17 3» 23 iH i.l 5 7 ■9 344 31 23 27 98 98 12 12 47 186 49,493 319 i 42 452 ■5 260 108 98 162 : 38 1 852 13 I 83 61 15 306 31 20 338 24 15 86 85 530 130 44° 140 87 / s. d. 1,905 19 8 878 16 2 518 8 o 166 3 6 I,376 8 1 2,452 3 4 708 19 o 67 11 4 1.548 3 5 2,398 18 7 959,198 12 11 9,209 16 10 618 4 1 16,181 o 10 67 o o 2,327 o 8 3.271 3 3 2,170 18 o 4,424 7 7 1,809 8 10 9,688 7 4 391 11 2 1,300 10 6 299 1 10 i,496 3 5 112 7 1 7.285 5 8 962 4 7 215 12 9 12,336 3 5 379 19 o 221 o 7 1,821 13 2 1,421 7 6 13,917 16 8 73i 8 10 9,262 n 4 3,888 8 10 392 2 8 1,108 4 7 293 4 3 666 9 2 5.473 14 9 9,102 18 6 32 99 88 19 41 288 333 283 216 1.73. 72 152 410 405 786 361 239 553 315 714 151 1,180 10 214 9 11 9 162 52 20 27 163 23 55 16 79 64 i,88 5 424 107 238 2,219 135 523 112 563 "68 2,723 148 5io 13 4 19,868 12 2 1.413 17 3 1,699 2 o 682 3 o 6,842 5 7 6,210 13 11 1.757 4 9 3.429 17 1 11,212 16 o 1,826 15 2 6,442 13 3 1,044 6 o 7.38i 7 4 5 95 2 5 27 16 3 6 29 22 761 25 33 28 281 198 37 50 35i 48 144 43 143 219 17 9 12,205 ° 1 420 18 2 654 1 6 593 o o 1,857 2 10 5,185 3 11 1.123 15 4 1,902 18 1 3.278 7 4 673 2 4 7,050 1 11 553 14 6 3.149 4 6 3 25 6 17 57 564 231 112 304 259 10 197 6,929 26 149 65 207 26 414 358 554 4 340 35 20 152 53 4 29 3.237 4 18 13 61 5 86 75 123 57 '5 4 05 78 4,760 3 2 764 o o 15 5 114 22 3.840 2 7 296 19 5 18 20 4 4 1,801 1 27 M 21 23 77 54 56 142 139 8 2,117 6 9 1.458 6 5 212 3 3 227 7 o 192,903 16 3 196 2 1 971 o o 1,022 9 6 954 14 11 265 14 o 3.476 12 6 3.742 4 3 3.451 1 9 12 8 "98 37 6 19 11,178 2,016 10 2 740 3 6 173 10 o 201 4 8 199,944 16 4 146 o o 144 4 5 180 15 8 407 11 6 26 10 2 959 2 6 2,793 8 5 2,055 9 9 33 13.041 5 66 91 96 30 3i5 287 345 3 1,200 •• i 1 3 > 6 1 14 26 23 22 45 3 87 214 195

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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 1908 — continued.

Money-orders. _fl 1 1 _ = Savings-hanks. Office. Issui Paid. Deposits. 2 . Withdrawals. No. No. Amount. gs. <° No. Amount. SI _ - < No. Amount. Commission. Amount. .isborne — contd. Tuparoa Waimata Valley Waipiro Bay .. Whatatutu .revmouth Ahaura Blackball Brunnerton Heathdale Moana Nelson Creek .. Ngahere Otira Reefton Runanga Stillwater Totara Flat .. -OKITIKA Goldsborough .. Kumara Okarito Rimu Ross Stafford Invercargill Arrowtown Awarua Plains Balfour Bluff Clifden Colac Bay Dipton Edendale Fairfax Fortrose Gore Half-moon Bay Kingston Lumsden Mataura Nightcaps Orawia Orepuki Otautau Pukerau Queenstown Riversdale Riverton Thornbury Waikaka - .. Waipahi Wairio Winton Woodlands Wyndham vJai-iek Blackburn Clive Dannevirke Frasertown Greenmeadows Hastings Hatuma Havelock North Herbertville .. KaikoraNorth.. Kumeroa Makaretu Makotuku Matamau Mohaka Norsewood Ongaonga Opoutama Ormondville .. Petane, H.B. .. Porangahau .. 4" 27 562 204 5.072 395 1,110 312 1 42 188 142 232 689 2,966 93i 56 198 1.959 37 577 73 92 636 206 6,732 5i6 n 235 1,028 22 150 227 5M 123 282 3,066 380 169 £ *. d. 9 17 9 o 16 9 12 17 9 526 132 17 9 6 6 6 26 19 9 7 5 3 o 13 3 4 10 3 2 19 3 5 n 6 1726 95 13 3 20 7 3 109 470 43 3 3 0 13 o 10 9 9 1 14 3 1 17 6 11 II 9 3 19 9 179 18 o 8 15 o 043 4 16 3 27 3 o 080 316 4 13 o 7 17 o 2 14 o 5 5 9 60 14 9 6 13 o 300 8 19 9 23 16 3 n 15 o o 12 6 18 4 9 15 8 3 2 IO 9 13 14 o 10 7 o 17 4 9 256 8 16 6 3 18 9 0 19 3 23 12 o 2 17 6 21 7 6 198 8 3 100 3 3 3 7169 2 17 3 2 10 9 116 5 6 2 1 9 6 15 3 1 16 6 6 18 3 216 2 10 3 8 17 6 3 4 9 3 10 6 14 15 3 3 18 o 329 11 7 3 1 n 9 8 3 3 / s. d.! 1,924 3 8 86 18 10 2,603 o 11 847 12 6 25,246 11 1 1,408 4 8 4,n8 9 9 1,029 5 2 133 17 4 616 19 11 686 o 2 891 7 9 3.523 7_ 2 12,097 o* 3 2,578 9 11 221 15 1 865 17 2 7.847 17 n 143 12 9 1,847 14 11 285 3 3 374 2 11 2,239 10 2 737 17 11 27,311 17 o 1.685 7 3 24 3 9 738 10 n 3.835 5 o 86 7 9 497 o 6 734 8 8 2.686 1 10 497 15 2 952 o 1 10,781 13 2 1.363 7 5 478 5 7 1,681 13 3 3,850 7 11 2,250 o 3 142 14 7 3.490 11 5 2,629 7 o 413 18 10 2.672 5 8 2,185 15 5 3.095 15 5 412 9 2 1,766 12 1 756 16 9 169 10 6 4,602 15 7 531 18 3 4,081 7 1 33,840 17 o 189 5 6 45i 3 2 17.178 5 5 426 16 1 422 12 o 19.433 7 7 420 1 8 837 18 6 305 10 6 1,066 15 6 475 7 8 433 11 5 1,441 5 9 503 15 3 646 8 9 3.042 4 o 1,237 x8 10 795 6 6 2,397 1 1 232 4 5 1.673 8 3 3° 3.583 87 215 171 14 48 16 33 77 1,070 122 34 31 1,428 9 313 10 22 144 3° 7.617 126 3 55 569 4 82 59 77 24 40 1,639 94 6 181 274 145 6 •34 33i 42 480 133 295 18 57 58 12 283 73i 203 6,906 1 40 2,017 52 68 2,707 28 151 19 5* 3 / s. d.| 273 16 3 14 o o 244 IO I 104 3 3 14,900 17 IO 354 5 4 944 1 7 .536 1 o 57 11 10 408.10 4 69 12 9 283 11 4 353 8 1 3.812 17 9 520 5 3 382 12 7 168 13 10 5,006 13 7 27 19 o 1,180 5 5 78 12 9 75 17 o 585 19 6' no 16 11 33,434 18 4 660 10 3 9 15 o 235 o 8 2,103 o 8 12 9 7 252 5 9 443 7 6 405 11 9 109 9 6! 220 19 8 6,699 1 8 521 2 1 17 7 8 744 4 5 1,084 15 11 1,160 14 7 39 1 3 631 15 5 1,120 1 2 202 8 o 1,874 10 2 482 16 2 1,363 o 7 74 1 8 285 14 9| 118 18 2 28 2 4 1.175 13 2 638 2 2 773 17 o 42,856 19 1 400 283 4 4 8,697 9 o 1 248 16 6 221 5 3 I3.057 12 7 109 1 3 762 1 9 122 2 6 343 15 6 70 8 3 62 12 5 363 17 4 89 I 6 427 7 3 694 10 4 213 6 9 "3 14 4 880 14 7 150 18 1 254 18 9 83 2 56 31 927 17 156 36 3 20 1 34 81 360 97 4 12 225 6 36 18 37 6 1,492 42 27 121 12 13 45 17 15 364 16 9 56 94 48 6 67 86 8 61 24 73 Q 34i 15 3°o 167 7.456 179 899 320 27 179 64 186 345 2,238 537 34 112 1.405 19 392 12 119 280 45 12,765 239 148 1,326 79 62 216 94 104 2,957 92 76 262 759 213 £ •• d. 5,058 8 2 40 4 o 4.335 8 5 2,046 8 5 118,022 5 2 1,595 15 2 9.483 15 1 3.295 9 7 135 19 o 2,291 14 3 1,129 18 o 2,742 3 o 3.599 10 3 30,340 2 1 4.975 19 9 213 o 3 1,120 6 4 27,116 1 1 76 1 o 6,216 18 6 24 o o 1,480 14 8 5,334 o 5 501 14 o 207,636 o 5 5,284 8 6 2,168 1 o 11,751 17 1 791 18 o 581 12 O 3.793 7 9 617 13 o 1,625 18 6 44,621 11 9 833 10 4 684 I IO 4,084 1 o 11,462 18 8 2,646 19 3 160 5 6 6,675 3 11 5,619 9 3 944 1 2 6,351 3 10 1,252 2 2 10,304 5 9 693 1 o 2,451 8 9 454 5 3 384 19 o 8,291 10 o 1,473 12 10 5,660 16 o 243,518 5 1 25 24 3 848 28 12 6 3 5 14 163 19 2 3 220 4 30 9 9 6 1,430 17 7 48 6 2 8 2 8 133 5 2 9 46 n 190 3 182 63 5.396 33 194 93 5 23 n 27 84 806 131 8 34 1 ,027 15 202 46 124 31 10,128 122 49 476 37 24 21 46 1,238 49 18 88 262 64 3 178 195 46 184 62 280 £ s. d. 1,602 10 1 25 o o 2,345 9 7 824 19 6 123,465 II 4 239 13 o 1.973 15 11 2,291 15 10 13 17 o 535 6 7 199 in 436 6 9 857 7 8 19,"7 57 o 5 2,393 19 8 136 17 8 851 12 4 28,443 14 o 231 16 3 6,351 14 9 116 o 7 716 4 9 2,915 14 o 267 3 5 237.593 18 6 3,854 8 7 1,346 17 11 6,808 13 7 419 14 6 558 4 9 1,981 5 4 747 9 9 902 4 o 35,321 18 7 624 10 8 424 11 11 1,408 15 5 7,498 11 1 645 3 o 53 o o 3,332 15 8 4.605 19 5 662 9 11 5,777 6 4 784 9 11 6,534 17 3 402 1 5 1.498 19 4 656 17 7 449 4 10 5,706 17 o 762 13 4 3.352 6 1 294,695 6 1 456 1.376 43 1,064 755 155 723 586 989 102 429 246 50 1,106 160 1.255 7,065 69 137 3. 6" 133 135 4.738 131 296 90 346 125 128 463 M4 194 772 222 175 575 64 401 44 11 5 91 20 73 1,840 16 453 590 74 390 137 886 73 278 47 3i 57i 94 420 17,206 30 28 5 35 18 31 3 14 4 2 45 5 3i 2,170 16 78 20 10 245 25 147 13,803: 21 480 26 15 893 4 39 12 32 4 12 52 24 22 48 32 237 3.351 105 133 6,417 39 326 no 295 58 114 299 85 92 332 234 1,387 8 5 44,214 2 10 916 9 o 585 19 o 80,396 I 10 241 5 o 2,400 13 5 1,156 5 o 3.756 15 1 594 12 o 1,094 x 9 o 3,700 7 10 854 7 9 474 12 4 4,980 1 1 1.934 4 1 3 247 14 12 337 1 16 4 22 "56 2,039 94 57 3.429 16 143 30 108 20 588*17 7 40,036 13 4 1,182 17 9 426 11 3 56,058 19 9 236 o 9 2,024 3 2 425 5 6 2,725 3 5 403 5 11 875 12 8 3,836 12 10 562 7 4 571 6 o 4.302 3 2 1,077 x8 2 30 15 IOI 21 62 157 52 29 180 29 54 3 6 21 7 6 24 17 31 147 50 78 230 85 28 7 27 228 21 151 2,661 10 2 324 10 o 1.929 19 7' 16 I 13 104 4 66 2,178 10 1 16 1 5 i 1,266 16 10

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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 1908 — continued.

Money-orders. Savings-banks. Office. Issued. No. Commission. Issued. Amount. 1 No. Paid. Amount. Paid. |- De * - £ z Bg- <° No. Deposits. eposits. Amount. c- ~ s! - u < Withdrawals. No. Amount. Napier— contd. Port Ahuriri .. Puketapu Takapau Taradale Te Aute Tikokino Waimiro Waione Waipawa Waipukurau .. Wairoa Weber Wimbledon Nelson.. Belgrove Brightwater Collingwood Kiwi .. Kohatu Motueka Ngatimote Puponga Richmond Riwaka Rockville Stoke Tadmor Takaka Tapawera The Port Thorpe Upper Moutere Wakefield New Plymouth.. Fitzroy Inglewood .. Midhirst Opunake Pungarehu Rahotu Stratford Tariki Toko .. Urenui Waitara Oamaru Duntroon Hampden Herbert Kakanui' Kurow Maheno Ngapara Pukeuri Junction Shag Point Thames Karangahake .. Katikati Komata Maketu Omahu Opotiki Paeroa Taneatua Tauranga Te Aroha Te Puke Turua Waihi Waikino Waiorongomai Waitekauri Whakatane Timaru Albury Fairlie Geraldine Glenavy 1,038 49 562 309 157 489 [8 74 1.367 1.197 1,167 176 103 5.451 121 247 74i 108 106 1.372 182 186 401 512 245 7i 39i 1,165 86 384 '43 156 406 5.236 79 1.501 400 953 231 367 3.186 136 255 236 1,020 5.303 302 53i 247 91 509 245 248 54 121 3.496 2,146 409 722 69 114 1,291 1.554 337 I,H3 1.445 680 86 4.877 1.647 12 212 641 5,869 246 620 1.144 229 £ s. d. 25 3 9 1 5 6 n 10 9 6 4 3 3 19 3 8 17 3 070 1 5 3 26 6 6 25 16 3 25 17 3 460 1 18 3 141 19 6 1 17 o 5 9 3 15 3 9 206 1 18 o 26 12 3 3 19 9 4 17 9 8 17 9 8 15 9 4 3 3 1 12 o 610 23 2 o 2 5 3 9 1 3 289 2 16 3 9 14 9 121 1 6 1 17 o 31 14 3 6 16 3 18 o 3 4 IO o 690 66 10 o 286 4 17 9 460 22 11 9 105 9 3 3 17 6 8 3 9 480 1 n 9 8 1 6 463 4 7 6 109 1 13 9 84 3 9 46 1 6 8 5 9 16 5 9 0 18 o 3 14 3 28 o 3 28 13 6 5 15 9 20 n 6 28 4 6 11 12 3 1 19 o 121 13 9 33 4 6 036 3 9 9 10 9 3 141 1 o 3 8 9 11 17 3 23 5 6 3 4 6 £ s. d. 4,477 19 7 177 4 8 1,899 17 o 940 5 3 641 12 1 2,205 3 10 7i 7 5 361 17 8 7,334 15 7 6,159 4 4 4,440 o 2 588 10 1 53,6 o o 22,014 12 1 336 3 5 767 15 10 3.083 1 1 322 8 3 403 4 11 5,014 7 4 74i 15 11 661 9 6 1.347 14 10 i,558 3 3 773 9 6 169 5 5 989 2 1 4,792 12 11 301 8 11 1,228 2 6 399 o 2 4M 1 2 1,690 18 9 22,138 18 3 217 4 3 5,650 8 3 1,139 6 1 3.323 1 o 898 2 2 1,146 16 3 13.945 2 10 438 3 4 817 4 7 747 11 9 3.448 1 3 41,436 6 3 2,479 18 11 1.693 17 3 1,098 o 5 313 9 4 3,626 17 11 817 16 2 1,153 16 6 185 7 o 288 4 6 16,691 11 7 7,902 8 10 1,667 8 4 3,119 9 10 173 7 2 612 13 9 6,074 6 10 6,574 18 4 1,315 o 2 4,381 10 5 5,296 17 1 2,687 11 4 378 6 4 16,470 17 9 5.421 15 6 33 11 4 735 1-8 6 2,469 6 o 45,466 10 11 2,531 17 7 3,020- 7 11 4.515 9 6 1,121 17 11 802 16 "5 132 130 82 n 902 507 502 29 33 7.105 32 88 152 3 88 39i 35 28 34i 100 17 59 30 275 17 183 26 30 269 5.632 24 546 65 188 49 64 1,050 56 86 76 346 3,069 88 286 9i 44 114 78 66 11 87 2,891 231 102 £ s. d. 3.896 9 7 77 10 3 565 6 3 632 9 11 414 7 4 381 19 9 '56 19 11 3.536 11 5 p, 992 1 6 2,339 11 7 220 o 2 360 18 1 29,799 17 11 151 15 11 316 15 1 533 19 o 9 14 11 178 3 1 1,483 13 o 175 19 2 365 3 o 1,3" 14 1 406 16 2 57 15 9 279 1 5 147 16 1 1,117 o 1 50 19 9 688 15 7 95 1 o 119 8 7 1,166 11 8 30,461 8 6 93 o 6 2,474 5 o 351 4 8 975 14 8 3M 9 2 240 14 6 5,109 5 9 316 18 4 324 4 9 312 2 9 1,919 14 10 i8,579 15 5 516 1 3 966 3 1 520 6 2 212 17 8 627 10 o 426 8 9 360 o 1 70 10 6 352 18 10 11,181 14 7 1,120 n 6 443 6 7 227 14 8 135 19 2 65 14 1 2,649 2 5 3.3M " 9 448 19 10 4,036 19 8 3.763 17 5 1,087 15 3 148 13 4 6,378 8 1 782 8 9 42 15 2 1,093 13 6 1,374 11 2 21,256 9 7 166 1 10 623 7 11 1,645 7 6 807 12 10 "5 59 22 16 34 9 Mi 144 127 23 1,069 10 15 51 37 9 59 10 15 40 14 15 14 27 66 12 33 6 16 33 955 14 187 26 77 30 26 456 24 43 30 149 787 19 36 17 2 46 367 120 87 392 7.696 8o 09 1.607 184 566 242 122 2,992 I70 182 154 1,132 6,741 "5 258 155 23 l6l 84 "5 38 60 5.254 1.234 212 544 24 56 867 970 186 1,126 1,085 355 70 5.78o 1,105 7 88 248 12,562 127 472 1,165 42 1.331 306 273 114 271 12 1,070 922 864 128 8,97i 96 164 369 90 45 571 62 105 392 213 104 121 165 £ s. d. 9,013 o 8 6,727 4 8 1,757 18 o 915 6 1 3,069 2 8 17 18 o 16,465 13 9 11,060 5 o 13,504 18 IO 1.327 19 5 158,204 2 7 1,024 1 o 1,992 1 11 4,488 13 5 609 16 6 589 17 1 9,622 7 4 559 9 o 1,333 2 5 3.313 19 11 3.566 2 5 1.604 3 5 639 9 9 2,126 o 8 8,115 8 1 828 2 10 3.431 3 3 862 6 o 644 13 8 3.633 16 3 135,926 12 6 321 5 o 22,814 6 6 1.897 14 7 11,270 1 4 3.554 1 6 1,257 19 10 42.186 13 11 1.346 15 3 1,969 2 8 1,073 11 5 13,235 7 10 131,710 17 4 2,031 16 3 3,181 1 1 2,457 12 11 346 7 10 2,524 16 8 1,275 16 10 1,223 9 1 459 4 6 212 17 3 88,291 13 5 11,622 12 4 2,008 o 4 3,866 9 5 175 6 o 557 4 10 17,674 9 1 9,738 19 4 1,164 16 10 23,918 6 6 15.853 12 1 5.778 11 11 549 4 XI 54.187 10 2 7.342 5 6 200 715 13 o 2,718 4 2 207,670 9 4 1,075 15 4 4.997 18 o 13,323 17 2 372 3 3 19 15 10 n 13 "65 61 73 6 973 3 5 13 2 4 47 6 2 7 6 2 2 8 24 1 2 1 7 5 1,035 1 100 21 38 5 8 20J. 7 7 5 60 681 220 92 6i 78 86 5M 447 630 47 7.633 51 59 155 16 26 342 59 13 162 131 29 20 50 338 n 48 33 50 in 6,620 12 748 105 230 52 52 1.330 68 83 44 495 5,132 47 64 48 6 53 21 31 11 37 4.679 746 76 166 27 23 603 552 51 736 604 226 31 2,341 382 £ ■• d. 2,297 12 3 2,248 14 2 562 15 2 549 7 6 1,404 1 5 12,151 8 11 11,902 1 5 11,930 6 1 532 5 o 182,024 14 3 717 13 3 1.193 14 3 4,098 8 10 129 10 9 441 6 5 9,688 o 5 522 9 7 204 1 8 2,830 14 2 2,849 19 11 503 5 2 412 1 5 639 14 10 6.710 14 3 76 17 10 568 2 7 621 17 6 661 17 3 2,002 17 5 156,648 15 1 67 8 5 17.532 17 4 1,747 12 7 7,308 6 o 535 3 4 504 14 1 32,792 19 o 973 1 4 1,248 2 4 710 2 2 8,995 7 1 127,743 4 11 1,326 10 4 1,883 17 4 1,161 12 7 123 9 8 1,526 12 7 232 15 9 387 18 4 200 12 6 251 16 7 109,298 17 7 11,023 3 3 1,720 3 6 1.711 19 9 157 2 5 321 o 2 17,201 11 9 8,672 18 2 840 1 6 22,432 1 6 11,909 14 4 3,810 16 5 474 18 o 38,359 5 11 5,218 7 1 600 759 16 10 1,992 9 4 240,992 14 1 372 7 IO 3,548 8 1 11,214 16 2 393 17 5 4 9 2 1 11 4 5 53 32 13 408 789 67 841 823 206 29 1,510 225 7 64 227 4.053 52 138 326 415 29 >7 14 3 4 684 167 28 64 6 6 169 122 52 167 169 68 12 646 114 1 3 48 1.387 15 73 146 12 4 958 75 4 21 3 2 94 59 15 68 71 27 2 297 55 1 2 34 1.315 1 16 68 40 182 10,242 26 158 459 28 4 >> V

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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 1908 — continued.

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Money-orders. Saving! i-banks. Office. Issued. Paid. _f_ Deposits. 2 . With _ - _ . Si u No. Withdrawals. hdrawals. Amount. No. Commission. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. Timaru — contd. Makikihi Morven Orari Pareora East .. Pleasant Point.. Rangitata St. Andrew's .. Studholme Junct. Temuka Waimate Winchester Wanganui Alton Aramoho Awatuna East .. Bull's Castlecliff Eltham Fordell Hawera Horopito Hunterville Hurleyville Kaponga Koeke Makirikiri Manaia Mangamahu .. Mangaonoho .. Mangaweka Manutahi Marton Marton Junction Mataroa Moawhango Normanby Ohakune Ohingaiti Okaiawa Otakeho Patea Pihama Pipiriki Raetihi Rangataua Rata Riverlea St. John's Taihape Taoroa Te Kiri Turakina Turangarere .. Utiku Waiouru Waitotara Waveriey Wellington Adelaide Road Alfredton Apiti Ashhurst Awahuri Ballance Brooklyn Bunnythorpe .. Carterton Castlepoint Chatham Islands Cheltenham Clareville Colyton Courtenay Place Cross Creek Eastbourne Eketahuna Featherston Feilding Foxton Gladstone Govt. Bldgs. .. Greytown 115 262 131 75 487 55 367 95 1.467 2,625 109 8,146 95 384 80 603 142 1.699 229 3.228 335 1.154 95 647 166 92 800 194 153 1,125 80 1,879 4 307 229 269 2,836 284 151 139 987 123 9 1.244 532 17 J 261 2,753 160 109 180 no 984 496 258 874 33.3io 258 208 523 533 139 40 340 174 1,484 24 249 121 32 7o 1,641 £ s- d. 363 3 15 3 2 7 3 2 7 3 8 5 3 1 1 9 6 19 6 1 3 9 25 15 o 43 19 9 2 4 9 212 o 9 2 1 3 760 1 10 o £ s - d. 547 6 2 1,090 14 8 493 15 11 282 10 6 1,709 10 1 160 16 7 1,824 o 11 315 10 8 5,47i 4 3 19.428 15 7 360 12 8 40,033 o 4 392 2 8 1,192 11 *i 244 9 3 2,698 2 5 442 2 7 7,890 14 8 848 5 6 12,907 16 o 1,675 8 1 6,278 4 10 328 10 II 2,365 17 1 813 IO II 448 15 6 3,298 19 9 1,124 19 3 952 15 5 4.772 15 8 278 8 2 10,011 7 6 30 13 10 1,453 14 6 1,298 10 2 713 4 8 16,165 17 3 1.063 19 o 611 8 4 469 o 8 3,534 17 9 683 16 8 23 17 9 7,247 12 2 2,380 4 6 43 14 6 18 8 o 1.064 XI 8 14,890 7 8 665 17 8 320 17 10 605 1 9 369 19 7 4,036 16 7 2,029 8 3 914 1 6 3,264 2 1 144,478 9 4 576 7 10 853 13 o 2,306 14 7 1,739 18 3 695 14 3 168 16 3 920 12 1 910 6 9 6,140 2 5 88 17 3 769 o 1 570 19 3 107 12 1 275 16 o 5.147 1 4 40 50 25 5 "3 23 128 35 584 900 ■JO £ »• d. 151 1 11 323 12 3 206 12 10 18 1 2 567 18 3 44 10 9 773 15 1 226 7 10 3,057 16 6 3,554 1.6 6 170 8 n 39.904 7 1 83 19 7 766 14 o 69 10 4 706 8 2 369 13 3 3,210 8 3 247 o 6 8,288 o 4 119 17 1 2,261 4 1 72 18 2 600 4 2 76 11 3 125 6 5 1,227 I 2 11 81 n o 250 5 " 1,800 4 8 28 6 8 4,928 o 1 1 1 6 759 6 o 157 19 4 523 8 2 2,118 18 4 463 9 6 131 19 o 288 7 4 1,258 8 6 121 17 10 23 35 4 26 37 2 27 8 129 272 17 1,963 10 103 122 65 102 190 3i 180 £ •• d. 879 3 7 1,897 19 6 683 6 4 659 5 4 2,940 17 3 360 14 3 1,860 6 2 323 5 1 17,168 12 10 37,522 9 7 1,740 8 4 246,569 14 4 921 12 6 i,959 19 5 2 4 6 5 4 2 5 6 66 40 50 59 10 37 14 49 30 57o 1,092 66 £ s - d. 501 4 0 585 o 4 658 o o 142 7 o 499 o 6 7c 5 o 582 13 11 240 19 IO 10,610 4 1 26,371 19 8 79i 17 3 315,036 14 8 744 14 7 436 3 9 50 8,034 22 210 13 179 62 742 54 1,884 39 1,160 2,112 145 16,862 102 392 120 3 2,47i 7 15 16,275 29 89 35 13 9 3 2 17 o 36 14 o 489 69 16 o 996 23 5 o 1 14 3 12 10 3 309 230 16 17 o 3 16 3 3 15 3 17 8 9 1 1 9 43 5 o 020 7 11 9 5 5 3 4 14 o 65 17 6 4 15 9 2 15 9 3 3 6 19 4 6 2 17 o 029 27 11 6 12 5 3 056 033 5 16 3 54 6 6 3 14 3 1 16 6 3 18 o 289 20 5 6 11 16 9 5 8 3 17 12 9 1.645 3 o 6 10 9 540 9 13 3 9 13 6 4 9 0 o 13 o 8 1 o 380 27 12 9 099 4 18 o 2 12 9 0 12 O 1 19 6 40 18 6 13 134 7 23 260 25 33 353 7 I.I99 1 93 26 91 365 83 49 40 385 17 '07 19 265 12 527 41 125 6 90 3 20 138 5 5 77 8 286 1 439 111 1,992 140 3.920 262 924 64 622 20 4.753 8 3 599 14 8 30,228 18 6 833 1 8 66,487 18 o 3.3i8 4 5 8,740 2 8 396 9 o 6,894 16 3 278 15 o 628 8 2 15,808 15 6 53o 5 C 480 o ic 6,400 4 6 1,428 1 o 23,192 6 9 49 13 7 1.742 3 8 1,144 10 7 4.535 1 7 21,662 10 7 1,117 I XI 2,121 14 8 848 5 IO 8,698 7 I 1,103 8 6 36 10 o 6,134 1 6 3."9 17 1 177 14 o 50 3 136 1 245 4 56 .7 43 3 1 60 222 12 959 25 1,754 27 397 39 223 4 19 338 7 13 318 3° 1,023 6 81 29 136 611 49 75 50 483 27 1 263 73 6 3,95o 17 6 no 4 1 29,978 10 4 392 1 11 51,433 o 2 543 11 10 8,057 7 3 537 8 10 7.oi5 4 2 129 8 10 299 3 o 11,229 11 8 95 7 3 143 1 1 5.151 9 4 290 3 7 23.053 o 4 31 o o 1,198 17 2 636 o 10 2,966 10 2 11,177 9 o 492 12 9 1,521 II II 895 8 6 9,413 10 7 839 10 1 300 4,298 16 10 895 12 7 56 o o 7i 934 32 45 5i8 83 1,955 8 in 85 266 1 3 46 6 143 22 12 7 14 "4 2 19 35 282 15 27 22 137 10 1.453 141 187 120 948 84 4 463 270 22 7 11 60 3 256 34 1 1 33 I.I93 9 7 62 20 172 in 57 242 56,218 1,786 19 1 141 16 o 200 6 15 6 86 16 4 7.513 6 7 25 13 5 61 14 o 192 16 9 70 1 2 716 12 2 699 4 8 359 6 7 1,057 o 7 265,737 19 7 "7 13 3 207 17 1 494 1 7 716 17 5 82 18 11 166 12 2 883 on 217 11 10 3,827 13 6 050 1,077 9 11 161 14 o 54 5 1 148 19 o 642 10 2 2 116 49 11 45 6 15 37° 26 10 21 8 no 65 45 93 9.591 49 22 3° 45 19 3 102 19 134 3 10 '4 4 9 266 6 14 106 124 376 125 6 101 2,078 126 52 "3 45 677 442 217 763 86,487 894 203 212 339 169 409 13 3 25,926 16 11 1,026 1 8 360 7 9 783 17 o 591 9 9 7.033 3 3 4,886 7 3 3,131 8 3 13,240 12 8 1229460 19 n 3,389 8 o 2,115 15 o 2,278 6 7 3,260 5 o 1,010 14 o 105 18 o 3.292 4 7 1,063 ° IO 17,221 16 4 98 17 o 1,362 19 9 978 16 11 65 18 o 1,199 12 O 18,103 2 7 414 8 7 323 5 7 13,525 4 o 9.333 16 o 44,154 7 o 12,922 17 6 313 7 o 6,627 4 I 8,338 10 9 151 4 6 4 2 39 20 14 1.059 19 22 33 16 248 106 107 330 95,261 45 75 112 176 39 9 86 136 16 o 20,235 5 2 313 3 6 336 11 o 399 6 4 445 1 11 4,642 18 8 1,114 3 11 1,280 13 9 9,547 10 11 1564300 8 4 336 18 2 1,619 10 6 2,784 15 1 2,37i 17 5 835 1 4 88 5 o 291 12 9 760 9 10 17.045 o 7 42 O I 33 16 10 764 17 5 165 19 6 1,147 15 8 947 3 8 12 33 37 79 168 25 19 182 59 728 41 12,782 5 10 21 IO 7 1 78 26 13 45 ' 132 25 99i 135 1,479 15 70 131 40 128 4.079 65 91 1,138 888 3.345 1.419 45 835 854 14 6 116 1 4 4 3 2 21 7i 812 5 6 50 15 40 216 "84 1,322 867 3.144 1,130 51 1,197 826 2 12 3 25 7 6 19 4 9 68 17 3 22 13 9 1 5 o 34 7 3 16 15 3 295 14 9 4.305 o 1 2,955 2 o 14.760 5 5 4,186 16 11 205 17 8 4,405 2 6 2,946 4 2 71 417 3M 2,231 474 25 33 592 203 5 9 1,960 11 8 1,251 10 2 9,490 7 8 1,873 5 6 107 12 7 118 7 11 2,356 6 7 3 52 54 185 56 6 5 41 21 528 363 1.788 587 14 205 490 133 19 6 13.536 10 4 7,578 18 11 38,961 13 3 8,283 8 2 94i 1 3 1,453 6 11 7,832 16 o 33 83

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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 1908 — continued.

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Office. No. Issued. Commission. Money-on Amount. Money-orders. Paid. .is *$* No. Deposits. ; posits. Amount. Savings- hanks. ■ Withdrawals. No. Amount. So No. Amount. 'ELLINGTON— Ctd. Halcombe Hastwell's Hinakura Hukanui Hutt Johnsonville Kaitoke Kaiwarawara .. Karori Kilbirnie Kimbolton Koputarua Levin Longburn Makuri Manakau Mangatainoka Martinborough Masterton Mauriceville .. West Molesworth St. Ngahauranga .. Nireaha Otaki Paekakariki Pahautanui Pahiatua Palmerston North Paraparaumu .. Petone Pirinoa Pohangina Pongaroa Porirua Rakaunui Rangiwahia Rongotea Sanson Shannon Taueru Te Aro Te Horo Te Nui Terrace End .. Tinakori Road.. Tokomaru Upper Hutt Waikanae Waituna West Wellington South Weraroa Whakataki Whareama Woodville Palmerston N. (CO.) Terrace End .. /estport Addison's Birchfield Burnett's Face.. Capleston Charleston Denniston Fern Flat Granity Inangahua June. Karamea Longford Lyell Millerton Murchison Seddonville Up. Matakitaki Waimangaroa .. 357 68 76 134 1.276 314 141 118 101 192 372 67 1,574 207 184 267 270 9" 4,646 189 141 2,108 251 128 1.078 99 33 2,104 6,736 170 3.095 107 117 430 185 171 404 479 142 822 76 6,529 160 208 133 155 190 633 347 160 2,347 487 120 £ s. d726 0 16 3 1 8 6 200 30 12 o 636 1 19 9 3 0 3 316 3 19 9 6 17 3 115 6 32 13 o 610 296 5 12 o 3 8 o 18 10 3 109 10 3 3 10 o 2 1 3 51 6 9 6 3 9 2 11 6 21 10 9 3 1 o 0 14 o 38 11 3 173 13 o 3 5 9 72 18 3 2 7 9 1 18 3 7 19 3 3 17 6 283 5 15 6 10 1 3 2 16 3 17 !7 o 1 3 3 177 13 9 3 15 9 5 1 3 276 3 4 9 4 13 6 14 7 6 6 16 9 3 8 3 68 4 o 8 18 o 1 14 9 096 26 19 6 £ s- di,332 14 7 212 o o 263 14 5 466 8 6 4,119 15 o 863 16 5 330 16 3 308 11 3 282 16 3 415 19 1 1,265 7 8 186 8 10 5,655 17 11 737 .4 11 535 o 9 937 14 7 803 3 6 4,732 19 10 19,107 19 11 678 11 9 431 11 o 5,S6o 13 5 604 8 3 652 8 4 4,202 15 10 279 14 8 78 3 8 10,304 18 ic 30,152 10 6 45- 2 1 9,209 18 10 427 1 1 391 7 5 1,738 18 1 550 14 9 530 12 o 1,525 11 8 1,646 5 2 507 18 1 3,018 12 6 201 5 11 18,873 12 11 590 11 8 1,225 o 3 355 19 o 350 10 7 640 15 4 1,950 6 10 1,480 16 3 468 13 10 7.982 13 9 2,000 17 2 380 II o 131 2 2 6,190 4 9 103 5 6 36 978 195 30 42 143 265 146 33 720 72 41 62 101 271 3.090 76 24 160 37 30 421 32 32 1,130 6,716 53 1.175 32 52 50 M3 7 58 146 66 219 22 734 28 40 104 30 39 225 70 34 1,640 161 15 I 585 £ s. d. 352 13 2 40 9 10 24 11 7 163 14 4 4.089 9 4 693 1 6 206 16 o 134 2 5 444 18 5 1,038 3 I 64* 14 2 168 8 7 3,338 6 3 304 13 5 148 10 4 193 8 4 580 19 7 1,131 10 9 12,515 14 2 247 M 7 168 7 3 726 17 9 112 19 6 222 1 1 1,870 6 9 137 10 2 155 17 9 4.729 6 9 27.415 14 9 202 14 10 4,480 19 2 163 2 1 321 9 2 221 13 IO 605 13 o 35 4 11 426 13 7 673 10 9 286 16 11 1,013 13 5 74 3 5 3,199 6 3 158 6 5 193 19 3 "3 2 8 127 15 6 113 10 7 1,068 7 9 306 5 3 133 4 9 6,993 8 2 618 19 3 68 4 9 500 2,359 o 11 IO 28l 55 8 17 24 3° 36 22 199 34 13 25 23 109 681 11 12 264 50 9 "7 11 10 265 472 12 578 5 17 38 13 10 18 5i 27 149 8 1,084 10 40 4 247 26 32 84 2,306 556 74 227 184 256 295 150 1,465 3 6 5 48 178 185 722 6,037 114 122 4.331 259 59 961 105 47 1.977 5.213 121 6,202 30 112 184 no 26 151 457 219 967 65 17.721 130 114 72 539 280 542 231 9i 9.502 838 24 5 1.254 8,556 £ s. d. 2,372 IO IO 291 14 3 255 5 8 775 9 o 22,825 2 2 2,992 5 10 989 2 3 1,057 7 o 792 10 5 719 16 6 3,299 8 11 924 16 7 21.168 18 11 2,539 12 11 210 5 o 1,378 2 5 3.012 o 5 7,152 18 4 66,733 16 6 1.356 3 6 1,917 5 o 21,027 18 n 1,321 3 6 474 6 6 12.169 xi 7 1,079 19 7 204 10 o 26,536 17 2 68,024 o 3 632 o 6 41.579 9 3 232 n 2 918 8 7 2,291 8 8 1,078 8 9 371 3 11 1,120 17 2 5,228 2 1 1.405 4 II 7.751 6 5 162 3 o 86,090 10 9 1,214 ° i° 2,361 16 o 8l2 12 O 1,062 14 O 1,763 12 6 5,296 2 9 1,772 12 6 1,099 14 5 46,443 11 5 2,775 2 11 122 15 o 48 13 o 18,848 2 3 197.233 11 10 16 1 1 "80 18 1 4 2 2 12 3 89 15 8 9 16 39 308 6 4 33 3 2 41 2 2 no 425 1 216 1 4 4 6 2 5 25 10 37 2 162 15 7 59 809 153 13 50 43 25 102 23 849 134 37 83 129 310 3.159 37 64 376 65 3i 47° 25 35 921 2,675 37 2,117 13 36 66 33 19 48 148 67 348 25 787 64 55 44 35 78 199 96 32 1,610 222 17 2 558 5,io6 £ s- d. 2,590 18 7 275 2 7 35 17 10 643 12 6 12,649 6 7 i,i34 13 7 74 7 9 353 6 4 624 o 8 104 3 3 3,270 16 6 372 10 3 18,053 16 8 1,437 15 3 344 ir > 4 1,118 3 8 1.93i 3 o 5,262 5 3 50,822 5 7 891 10 3 1,789 6 2 2,462 11 10 481 18 o 553 6 4 7,730 o o 668 11 3 375 6 1 25,482 14 7 48,877 11 1 44i 9 5 26,208 3 3 98 11 2 575 o 6 706 14 11 562 2 o 271 IO IO 726 1 7 2,819 8 9 i,i59 8 5 5.125 14 9 212 11 4 8,876 10 5 1,002 18 3 1,125 17 9 297 5 10 148 7 4 727 1 7 3,501 12 o 956 O I 926 7 5 15,672 2 6 2,578 9 5 77 7 9 22 10 o M.528 7 3 74.744 13 4 101 9 2 15 15 37 61 75 30 12 706 73 6 2 137 3.085 7 2 12 16 9 3 196 21 2 42 1,595 "61 348 4.297 14 58 938 65 238 1.287 90 632 136 655 90 627 1.677 643 488 99 259 109 6 9 0 5 3 1 5 o 28 6 3 1 3 3 5 3 3 35 15 3 1 14 6 15 5 9 2 15 9 12 9 3 1 10 9 9 7 3 52 2 o 10 12 3 10 o 9 1 12 9 4 3 3 20,784 2 I 71 O I 137 2 8 3,619 18 5 213 11 9 878 19 2 5,961 16 7 356 6 11 2,228 o 3 486 13 8 2,656 16 8 445 15 1 1,833 4 o 6,166 3 6 2,517 4 .6 1,775 8 11 274 12 8 989 5 11 2,921 9 16 33 18 63 147 n 14,141 9 2 20 15 2 65 17 10 138 8 2 89 19 6 315 o o 691 18 10 96 15 6 383 12 3 146 11 3 1,495 4 8 48 15 4 353 2 3 263 13 6 546 1 9 318 1 7 18 4 3 171 10 1 9 598 30 4,002 162 15 o 73,148 7 o '758 3.729 89,019 8 o 75 15 124 9 44 63 73 79 3 49 16 158 5 15 136 9 52 7 40 2 22 233 45 42 11 7 54 1,263 58 180 1,152 47 422 70 173 13 112 1.789 206 304 31 72 105 5 6 8,969 16 1 430 6 o 1,692 6 9 8,146 9 9 346 11 o 4.015 3 4 905 16 1 3,640 o o 242 10 3 1,057 16 o 14.584 9 5 3,203 18 8 2,593 8 10 281 10 8 506 5 10 1 44 3 8 46 1 20 5 11 3 206 12 45 223 6 109 14 70 13 42 285 "4 67 n 37 16 1 10 2,803 5 o 286 o 9 746 15 o 4,258 11 4 66 o 7 2,229 17 11 256 17 2 1,130 8 8 159 16 9 351 9 2 5,476 16 10 2,436 4 4 591 16 8 137 12 1 284 13 2 1 13 47 14 16 2 5

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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 1908 — continued.

Table No. 5. Statement showing the Number of British Postal Orders of each Denomination sold and paid in New Zealand during the Financial Years 1907-8 and 1908-9.

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Money-orders. Saving. (•banks. Office. 2 . Withdrawals. || < u No. Amount. Issued. No. Commission. Issued. Amount. Paid. No. Amount. CO a I u 0 C I < ° No. _> Deposits. )e posits. Amount. Postal District of— Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth .. Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 102,462 ! 7.334 ,47.853 '47.683 9.932 12,333 3,580 123.558 26,720 12,474 13.600 7.651 20,851 13,896 34,651 91.213 12,293 £ s. d. 2,740 13 9 154 06 1,265 3 3 1,100 o 6 272 8 o 325 14 3 73 9 3 501 13 6 619 3 6 282 15 9 291 2 3 143 o o 453 6 6 284 2 9 772 8 6 2,973 8 9 302 19 3 £ s. d. 423,482 10 5 28,179 4 4 197,695 19 1 186,190 2 2 47,453 8 10 53.417 5 5 13.475 19 10 86,406 3 3 117,285 2 6 47,008 17 10 53,910 o .0 53.093 14 3 82,006 19 1 88,341 1 10 162,899 1 11 358,442 13 3 51,396 2 IO 94.725 3.320 43.981 47.930 3.767 5.501 1.956 13.778 16,053 9,269 8,182 3.934 8,518 6,937 17.095 82,726 3.752 £ s. d. 436,436 8 4 19,425 7 7 230,879 19 4 211,164 4 11 21,676 1 5 22,792 9 6 7,066 4 2 56,922 17 o 84,502 3 1 38,456 1 3 42,893 3 5 22,632 11 9 38,296 16 11 33.594 1 8 83.763 2 3 377.864 5 5 19,305 1 1 12628 1,043 10624 8,in 2,246 1.748 328 2,949 4.308 1.551 2,017 928 2,526 2,213 5.204 20311 1.398 102,571 8,429 116,530 88,767 15,099 12,576 2,272 23.452 35.124 13,080 15,136 7.750 19,211 18,617 38,264 179,275 9,948 £ •■ d. 1,639,950 9 6 134,116 5 5 1,620,240 18 8j 1,163,464 16 4 218,464 4 3' 178,945 17 11 40,749 9 81 349,300 3 6 461,071 15 7 207,188 17 6 236,853 12 4' 145,423 19 9 246,164 19 10 293,476 11 4 530,331 14 9 2,084,461 6 6 123,870 1 2 8,259 804 , 7.769 : 5.720 1.327 1.103 278 1,985 3.213 1,120 1,489 721 1.787 1,627 3.870 15,762 995 77.152, 5,9I4| 83.330J 57.440 12,208 6,845 1,449 14.177 22,765 9.337 9.839 5.450 11,466, 12,930 25,647| 123737 4,9861 £ »■ d. ,1,550,688 3 5 138,534 6 3 '1,622,175 12 3 1,128,180 19 2 211,455 17 11 153,152 6 1 39,042 7 9 334.716 5 8 457.069 4 11 216,898 1 9 229,064 8 9 134.838 10 7 235,910 7 6 297,575 15 2 531.504 15 9 2,026,761 12 1 110,251 15 3 Grand totals .. 14880841 2,050,684 6 1 1747670 19 1 |8oi33 | 706,101 9,674,075 4 o :57,82V 484672 ; i9,4i7.82o 10 3 12,555 10 3 37M24

Sold. Paid. Denomination. 1907-8. 190H t. 1907-8. 11)08-9. 8. d. 0 6 1 0 1 6 2 0 2 6 3 0 3 6 4 0 4 6 5 0 5 6 6 0 6 6 7 0 7 6 8 0 8 6 9 0 9 6 10 0 10 6 11 0 11 6 12 0 12 6 13 0 13 6 14 0 14 6 15 0 15 6 16 0 16 6 17 0 17 6 18 0 18 6 19 0 19 6 20 0 21 0 776 1,936 894 1,373 1,823 1,107 604 823 447 3,311 363 687 325 563 579 411 346 286 202 4,803 328 232 102 315 213 225 111 197 78 808 60 154 62 101 151 213 141 498 3 10,949 812 2,306 1,034 1,679 2,232 1,246 729 967 424 4,661 397 807 376 556 663 493 367 295 195 6,283 395 227 115 419 276 244 81 216 66 1,171 93 176 67 122 128 192 126 336 3 13,846 56 72 330 161 327 531 198 85 147 60 1,062 35 88 53 51 90 52 28 31 22 1,428 61 35 14 74 48 28 20 32 9 328 17 31 13 13 6 20 11 19 4 6,282 322 105 454 187 414 647 262 129 193 55 1,210 33 99 41 60 144 74 23 41 19 1,716 79 31 15 91 55 39 25 41 14 409 12 22 19 20 19 42 7 32 19 7,530 374 Number 36,600 44,877 12,238 14,801 Value .. £19,564 12s. £24,178 5s. 6d. £8,533 19s. £10,264 19s. Gd.

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Table No. 6.— 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, 1908.

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Postal Districts. Number of PostOffice Savingsbanks Open at the Close of the Year. Number of Deposits received during the Year. Total Amount of Deposits received during the Year. Average Amount of each Deposit received during the Year. Number of Withdrawals during the Year. Total Amount of Withdrawals during the Year. Average Amount of each Withdrawal during 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 Withdrawal. 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, incrusive of Interest to the Close of the Year. Average Amount standing to the Credit of each Open Account at Close of the Year. £ s. d. £ »• d. £ s. d. £ »■ d. £ s. d. £ s. d. I S. d. £ S. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland 156 102,571 1,639,950 9 6. 15 19 9 77.152 1,550,688 3 5 20 2 0 89,262 6 1 60,168 8 1 12,628 8,259 5o,938j 1,970,414 6 11 38 13 8 Blenheim 9 8,429 •134,116 5 5 15 18 3 5,914 138,534 6 3 23 8 6 4,418 O IO » 5,872 1 5 804 5,605 180,995 o 4 1,043 32 5 10 Christchurch .. •• 66 116,530 1,620,240 18 8 13 18 1 83,330 1,622,175 12 3 19 9 4 1,934 13 7 64,883 6 2 10,624 7.769 R 58,973 2,064,223 12 3 35 o 1 Dunedin 54 88,767 1,163,464 16 4 13 2 2 57.440 1,128, 180 19 2 19 12 10 35,283 17 2 54,547 18 1 8,ni 5,720 43,348 1,727,001 6 2 39 16 10 Gisborne 13 15,099 218,464 4 3 14 9 5 12,208 211,455 17 n 17 6 5 7,008 6 4 6,611 6 3 2,246 1.327 7>26g| 214,953 18 6 29 11 5 Greymouth 13 12,576 178,945 17 11 14 4 7 6,845 153. r 52 6 1 I 22 7 6 25.793 11 10 I 8|26o 18 2 I 1.7481 1,103 6,402 275,986 14 11 43 2 2 Hokitika 7 2,272 40,749 9 8 17 18 9 1 1.449 39,042 7 9 26 18 11 1,707 1 11 2,817 10 8 328 278 1,812 89,802 12 6 49 11 2 Invercargill 29 23,452 349,300 3 6 14 17 11 14.177 334,716 5 S 23 12 2 14,583 17 10 17.815 3 3 2,949 1.985 14,073! 563,288 3 6 40 o 6 Napier 30 35,124 461,071 15 7 13 2 6; 22,765 457,069 4 11 20 1 7 4,002 10 8 18,387 12 11 4.308 3.213 16,810 580,853 9 9 34 11 1 Nelson 20 13,080 207,188 17 6 15 16 10 9,337 216,898 1 9 23 4 7 9.709 4 3 10,299 2 1 1.55i 1,120 8,950| 315,569 11 4 35 5 2 New Plymouth 12 15.136 236,853 12 4 15 13 o 9,839 229,064 8 9 23 5 7 7.789 3 7 9,174 6 ill 2,017 1,489! I 8,424 291,292 17 7] 34 11 7 Oamaru 10 7.750 145,423 19 9 18 15 3 5.450 134,838 10 7 24 14 10 10,585 9 2 6,654 1 5 928! 721 4,562 214,050 13 o : 46 18 5 Thames 17 19,211 246,164 19 10 12 16 3 1 1,466 235.910 7 6 20 11 6 10,254 12 4 10,068 13 1 2,526 1.787 10,641 325,936 18 3 30 12 7 Timaru 16 18,617 293,476 11 4 15 15 3 12,930 297,575 15 2 23 o 3' 4.099 3 10 12,973 15 9 2,213 1,627 10,123 399,861 18 7 39 10 o Wanganui 43 38,264 530,331 14 9 13 17 2 25,647 531,504 15 9 20 14 6 i,i73 1 o 18,743 7 6 5,2041 3,870 i8,357 589,376 4 4 32 2 2 Wellington 80 179,275 2,084,461 6 6 11 12 7 123,737 2,026,761 12 1 16 7 7 57,699 14 5 67,401 10 1 20,311 15,762 71,463 2,186,487 7 6 30 11 li Westport 18 9,948 123,870 1 2 12 9 o 4,986 110,251 15 3 22 2 3 13,618 5 11 5.129 4 9j 1,398 995 4,326 169,199 2 8 39 2 3 J Totals for Dominion in 1908 593 706,101 9.674,075 4 o 13 14 o. 484,672 9,417,820 10 3 19 8 8 256,254 13 9, 27,000 379,808 6 7 80,133 57.829 342,077, 12,159,293 18 * o 5'44 35 10 11

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Table No. 6.— POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.— GENERAL STATEMENT-continued. 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, 1908 — continued.

Number of PostOffice Savingsbanks Open at the Close of the Year. Number of Deposits received duringthe Year. Total Amount of Deposits received during the Year. Average j Amount of Number each of With- Total Amount of Deposit drawals Withdrawals received during during the Year, during the the Year. Year. Average Amount of each Withdrawal during the Year. Excess of Deposits over Withdrawals during the Year. Excess of Withdrawals over Deposits during the Year. Cost ol' Management during the Year. Average Cost of each Transaction, Deposit or Withdrawal. 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. incrusive of Interest to the Close of the Year. Average Amount standing to the Credit of each Open Account at Close of the Year. Totals for Dominion, 1908 .. 1907 . . , 1906 .. 1905 •• 1904.. 1903 •• 1902 .. 1901 .. 1900 ... 1899 .. 1898 .. 1897 .. 1896.. 1895 .. 1894 .. 1893 •• 1892.. 1891 .. 1890.. 1889.. 1888.. 1887 .. 1886 .. 1885.. 1884 .. 1883.. 1882 .. 1881 .. 1880 .. 1879 • • 1878.. 1877 .. 1876.. 1875 .. 1874 • • 1873 .. 1872.. 1871.. 1870 .. 1869 . ■ 1868 .. Totals for Dominion from 1st Feb. to 31st Dec, 1867 593 563 541 520 5io 493 481 466 445 427 409 388 371 I 357 348 327 318 1 3" 296 294 290 283 271 256 243 222 207 190 178 165 147 138 124 119 103 97 92 81 70 59 55 46 706,101 650,990 1 593,764 509,112 469,799 444,510 411,215 380,808 347,056 313,783 281,749 267,615 242,283 217,393 204,545 202,276 186,945 176,971 162,938 153,920 145,355 136,197 137,989 131,373 129,279 127,609 129,952 125,855 81,660 71,865 69,908 6o,953 57,295 56,129 52,627 39,223 31,681 24,642 20,489 17,133 13,014 6,977 £ s. d. 9,674,075 4 o 9,351,663 19 7 7,907,154 12 5 6,625,744 O IO 5,836,540 O ol 5,661,592 15 2 5,069,619 6 2 4,611,456 6 I 4,170,428 15 3 3,644,980 9 10 3,279,611 7 5 3,187,219 2 4 2,881,152 16 3 2,794,506 16 o 2,252,862 6 11 2,386,089 10 7 1,878,270 6 4 1,842,987 15 2 1.658,543 3 5 1,515,281 11 3 1.544.747 7 « 1,312,151 1 5 1,248,405 611 1,341,001 3 2 1,227,909 11 4 1,178,474 4 1 1,325,852 2 II 1,189,012 2 7 864,441 18 IO 812,399 II II 762,084 12 O 681,294 13 2 664, 134 12 6 657,653 4 o 699,249 14 3 580,542 5 5 430,877 o o 312,338 18 4 1 264,328 5 7 ; 240,898 5 9 194,535 11 6 96,372 7 10 £ 8. d. 13 14 o 14 7 4 13 6 4 13 o 3 12 8 6 12 14 9; 12 6 7 12 2 2 12 o 4! 11 12 4 II 12 IO II 18 2 11 17 IO 12 17 I II o 3 II 15 II IO O II 10 8 3 10 3 6 9 16 10 10 12 6 9 12 8 9 o 11 10 4 1 9 9 11 9 4 8 10 4 o 9 8 11 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 12 13 6 12 18 o 484,672 433,796 386,536 346,022 323,609 301,076 273,454 247.854 227,079 206,940 196,764 179,555 167,248 159,904 152,136 136,739 120,628 111,603 106,868 99,i85 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 17,254 14.773 ".934 9,292 6,365! i,9i9i £ «• d.| 9,417,820 10 3 8,125,123 o o 6,907,103 17 7 5,984,184 12 2 5.664.770 3 9 5,343,828 5 o 4.708.771 11 2 4,230,193 6 2 3,827,416 7 3 3,417,298 19 8 3,194.893 16 7 2,891,169 5 8 2,591,558 19 4 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 1,500,437 9 5 1,457,081 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 1 902, 195 1 8 780,504 13 4 876,180 19 3 742,053 14 3 667,023 7 5 696,281 7 4 729,759 17 9 620,155 8 9 425,908 3 5 313,176 7 n 261,347 x6 3 209,509 13 2 180,518 4 1 107,094 17 3 26,415 18 9 £ »■ d. 19 8 8 18 14 71 17 17 51 17 5 11 17 10 1 17 15 o 17 4 5 17 1 4 16 17 1 16 10 3 16 4 9 16 2 o 15 9 10 14 16 4 14 18 3 15 10 5 15 2 o 15 3 5 14 o 9 14 J 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 11 8 16 o 4 17 7 2 16 18 10 17 12 8 19 14 8 20 16 5 20 o 5 18 3 o 17 13 9 17 11 1 19 8 7 16 16 6 £ ■»■ d. 256,254 13 9 1,226,540 19 7 1,000,050 14 10 641.559 8 8 171,769 16 3 317,764 10 2 360,847 15 o 381,262 19 11 343,012 8 o 227,681 10 2 84,717 10 10 296,049 16 8 289,593 16 11 425,173 9 5 263,567 13 11 1 56,921 8 3 i M9,472 5 11 1 158,105 14 o 1 58,200 6 3 ; 157,276 6 1 I 129,741 13 II £ s- d. " 15,762 1 5 " I £ 27,000 19,000 17,000 16,500 16,000 15,000 14,000 11,5°o 10,500 9,500 8,500 8,000 7,000 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 3,500 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,250 1,800 1.556 1.351 1.264 1,186 789 822 s. d. o 5'44 o 420 o 4'i6j o 4-63 o 4-84 o 4-83! o 4'9°: o 4"'39: o 4391 o 4-381 o 426 o 4'29i o 410] o 445 o 437 o 4&0 o 429 o 416 o 445 o 379 o 397 o 424 o 423 o 444 o 457 o 466 o 482 o 452 o 6 04 o 569 o 533 o 598 o 6 20 o 6 44 o 655 o 714 o 763 o 823 o 936 o 1077 0 977 1 1018 £ s. d. 379,808 6 7 343,424 7 2 291,191 19 1 259,081 7 6 200,930 6 1 187,130 2 8 172,926 1 7 159,198 4 o 146,169 2 5 134,917 19 3 128,128 16 6 137,240 8 o 126,497 16 3 129,489 19 6 "4,643 4 11 114,760 1 1 111,301 13 I 104,098 17 o 92,319 o 6 84,809 17 1 78,080 6 o 67,363 15 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 31,715 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 14,711 o 5 11,291 10 10 9,242 3 11 7,412 8 o 4,880 7 3 1,241 5 o 80,133 74.671 70,206 60,015 57.769 57.047 53.587 50,046 46,086 41,362 37,265 36,394 32,982 30,261 28,669 29,755 26,232 25,131 23,719 21,778 21,307 20,368 21,671 20,661 20,228 20,386 21,014 25,059 16,137 15,401 13,005 ",235 ",255 ",273 10,346 7,382 6,205 4.6i5 4.304 3,839 3,282 2,520 57.829 53.644 47.526 43.H3 42,280 40,837 38,558 35,018 31,724 28,-284 26,628 24,821 22,907 22,001 21,930 19,599 18,171 17.872 17.256 15.521 16,543 15,515 16,757 16,421 16,447 15,967 14,505 12,718 12,217 12,786 9,634 8,59i 9,472 8,681 5.736 3,8i6 3,188 2,383 2,277 1,801 1,186 364 342,0771 319.773 1 298,740 276,066 259,164 243.675 227,465 212,436 197,408 183,046 169,968 i59,33i 147.758 137,683 129,423 122,684 112,528 104,467 97,208 9o,745 84,488 79,724 74,871 69,957 65,717 61,936 57.517 51,008 38,667 34.747 32,132 28,761 26,1:7 24,334 21,742 17,132 13.566 io,549 8,317 6,290 4.252 2,156 £ s. d. 12,159,293 18 1 11,523,230 17 9 9.953.265 II o 8,662,022 17 I 7,761,382 on 7,388,681 18 7 6,883,787 5 9 6,350,013 9 2 5,809,552 5 3 5,320,370 14 10 4,957,771 5 5 4,744,924 18 1 4,311,634 13 5 3,895,543 o 3 3,340,879 11 4 3.241.998 7 10 2,863,670 12 10 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 1,615,979 9 6 1,638,035 19 5 1,499 ,112 o 7 1,409,751 16 7 i,47 0 ,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 IO 1 490,066 7 o I 357,654 14 6 295,372 1 7 ' 231,311 5 3 163,518 15 7 71,197 14 1 £ s. d. 35 10 n 36 o 9 33 6 4 31 7 6 29 18 11 30 6 5 30 5 3 29 17 10 29 8 7 29 1 4 29 3 5 29 15 7 29 3 7 28 5 10 25 16 3 26 8 6 25 9 o 25 16 o 25 2 4 24 2 11 24 4 10 22 14 10 21 11 8 23 8 4 22 16 3 22 15 2 25 11 5 24 3 4 23 7 6 22 12 11 25 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 8 7 ,88i'i 9 5 I I 76,695 14 II 1 31,978 10 5 "7.245 M » ! 183,253 2 10 : 286,817 o IX I 83,937 5 6 - " 63,781 7 4 1 ! 20,030 17 9 > 14,271 5 9 i 32,146 14 10; 72,106 13 9 5 79.094 5 6 5 154,634 2 o 3 II7,70O 12 I ) 50,991 2 I I 54,818 12 5 7 60,380 1 8 5 87,440 14 3 3 69,956 9 1 14 1 2 14 18 11 13 16 3 13 15 3 •■

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Table No. 7. Balance-sheet of the New Zealand Post Office Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1908.

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Balances on 1st January, 1908. Transactions. Balances on 31s December, 1908. Cr. Dr. Or, Dr. Cr. Dr. Money-order Accounts :— Money-orders (general) United Kingdom, &c. United States of America Australia Austria Canada Cape of Good Hope Ceylon Fiji Germany Hong Kong.. India Natal Orange River Colony Samoa Straits Settlements Tonga Transvaal Commission Savings-Bank Accounts :— Deposits and withdrawals Transfers .. Postal Accounts :— Stamps Postal Guides Postal notes Private box and bag rents Money-order commission British postal orders—H.O a/c C.P.M'sa/e London a/c B.P.O. commission .. Postal revenue Telegraph Accounts :— New South Wales Telegraphs New Zealand & Australian Cable Pacific Cable Board Telephone-exchange receipts .. Special messenger receipts Maintenance of private wires.. Registration of code addresses Cable deposits Telegraph revenue .. Gknkral Accounts: — Post Office Account Postmasters and Telegraphists Investments Accrued interest on investments Miscellaneous receipts (general) Foreign postage Miscellaneous expenses Discount-stamps For other Departments:— Advances to Settlers Arms Act licenses Audit fees Clerks of Court Customs dues (H.M.C.) Customs duty (parcels) Education Department Electoral receipts Factories Act Fishing licenses Game licenses Goldfields revenue Government debentures Government Insurance Government Printer.. Homing-pigeons Protection Act Imperial pensions Income-tax.. Land-tax Licensing Act Machinery Mining Act.. .. Miners' Guides New Zealand Consols Official Assignee .. .. Old-age pensions .. .. j Old-age pensions (miscellaneous) Public Trust .. .. | Railways Registration of births, &c. Rents .. .. .. I Sanatorium, Hanmer Springs Sheep rates Stock Department Valuation revenue Miscellaneous revenue Savings-Bank Funds in hands of Treasury Account Suspense Acoount Profit and loss £ s. d. 34,225 2 1 7,139 11 ij £ a. d. £ s. d. 2,191,972 8 1 214,031 11 11J 18,874 13 11 212,681 2 7 24,071 9 7 3,244 14 3 1,918 19 2 826 9 10 2,014 6 1 2,546 19 2 1,409 7 11 3,312 13 4 671 11 8 199 12 5 4,7i6 7 10 201 6 3 3,035 12 6 3,347 9 5 641 6 4 £ s. d. 2,187,339 8 10 202,176 6 9 18,845 2 4 214,472 18 2j 23,757 7 7 3,449 3 4 i,75i 1 4 888 8 7 2,999 5 2 2,631 19 8 1,313 19 10 2,788 9 2 681 11 6 137 1 10 5,069 14 o 172 16 4 3,661 8 6 2,918 18 8 2,077 7 5 £ s. d. 38,858 1 4 18,994 16 4 £ 8. d. 794 2 n 764 11 4 5,284 19 oj 1,207 10 10 3,493 3 5 1,521 12 10 141 2 6 154 17 1 13 o 9 345 II 7 58 6 1 255 19 4 2,017 o 6 88 9 11 485 1 2 87 1 6 1,932 o o 183 18 o 1,009 5 4 77 1 8 3 12 8 728 19 9 73 14 8 3,576 13 10 87 11 1 920 3 n 589 16 10 1,231 5 3 11 4 1 3.93° o o 59 1 2 1,545 19 11 161 6 1 2,667 6 4 11,523,230 17 9 6,360 9 9 ,0,053,883 10 7 1,035,091 10 3 9,417,820 10 3 1,035,226 12 6 12,159,293 18 1 6,225 7 6 198,194 7 o 7 15 o 160,655 6 4J 54,887 1 8 50,669 12 2 004 709,766 10 2 598 11 6 367,787 14 2 10,386 16 6 12,640 19 9 23,087 10 o 26,360 12 6 22,926 3 10 268 11 9 463,409 6 8J 722,213 7 3 593 3 6 419,656 3 10 10,386 16 6 12,640 19 9 26,487 5 10 23,369 3 4 22,926 4 2 268 11 9 466,798 9 7 i85,747 9 11 12 18 o 108,786 16 8i 51,487 5 IO 53,661 1 4 8,741 10 10 5,352 7 nj 251 3 4 140 14 2 1,961 1 6 6,807 o 7 3,939 18 6 52,441 2 11 131,078 16 6 391 3 2 2,047 16 n 1,083 4 3 5,202 6 8J 432,763 8 3 6,832 6 10 3,935 16 4 52,353 10 9 131,078 16 6 39i 3 2 2,047 16 11 1,083 4 3 5,156 12 o 430,437 13 5 225 17 1 144 16 4 2,048 13 8 134 17 2 2,598 2 5 180 11 io_ 4,923 17 3 1,712 16 5J 14,597 11 24 134,452 7 o 575,225 5 3_ n.473.254 13 o 119,378 12 11 7,032,692 6 1 17,507,658 5 2 i,49o,376 19 o 119,378 12 11 io,533 5 3. 2,224 13 5* 1,267,619 2 2 2,555 o o 7,102,422 13 4 17.435.555 9 4i 2,199,279 15 5 139,852 9 3 9,596 7 9 8,976 18 nj 1,136,846 17 11 2,723 2 o 2,649 14 o 7,845 5 8J 20,608 15 6 1,999 M o 204,182 14 3 503,122 9 6 12,182,157 9 5 139,852 8 3 110,163 8 9 2,167 16 o 15,402 10 9 800 1,625,838 3 6 180 o o 14 10 o 152 18 1 2,37° 12 4 64,378 4 o 1 19 6 18 10 o 39 3 o 1.333 5 o 2,966 16 o 106 8 6 52,000 o o 28,681 18 9 4° 9 1 040 22,000 o o 196,343 14 5 431.934 17 2 20 o o 7,846 15 o 302 5 o 1,623,760 7 1 186 o o 14 IO o I42 2 I 2,327 o 7 65,200 o 8 1 19 6 18 6 o 39 3 o i,3M 1 o 2,966 16 o 107 on 52,525 o o 28,271 6 10 38 18 8 040 28,551 17 8 196,125 o o 428,535 o o 20 O O 7,827 2 6 318 15 o 17,480 7 2 200 4 18 o "3 5 3 5,857 1 10 15 14 o 156 17 o 5,035 5 2 010 020 116 12 6 050 020 135 16 6 "5 6 5 525 o o 2,192 14 5 o 8 1 4 14 o 2,603 6 4 1 18 6 7,743 15 3 12 3 9 1,684 19 3 1,191 17 7 230 18 2 5,084 16 5 73i 7 6 434 10 o 1 5 6 751 o o 418 o o 1 5 6 120 o o 120 o o o 12 6 28,378 15 4 o 12 6 27,537 5 6 333,000 o o 700 723.937 9 3 2,675 15 10 2,441 5 o 338 12 1 1,904 3 11 90 4 o 41 11 3 4.363 14 1 159 7 4 100 o o 332,158 10 2 700 721,698 11 1 2,643 2 6 2,510 7 o 343 16 9 1,983 o 5 136 10 o 39 1 9 4.297 15 3 161 1 9 100 o o 25,234 12 10 230 2 3 261 11 o 32 19 o 227 11 9 47 8 o 27,473 11 o 262 15 7 192 9 o 27 14 4 M 8 15 3 120 296 66 10 2 15 13 8 on 4 17 8 1 1 19 2 254,457 7 5 814 13 5 545,046 13 8 816 12 7 526,933 8 10 272,570 12 3 Totals .. .. : 47.536,330 5 o_ 47.536,330 5 oj 12,420,043 15 oj 12,420,043 15 o. 13,039,532 14 4 13,039,532 14 4 General Post Office, Welliii; ;con, 1st Mi ,rch, 1909.

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Table No. 8. Securities, &c., Standing in the Name of the Postmaster-General on Account of the PostOffice Savings-Bank Fund on 31st December, 1908.

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Description of Securities. Nominal Value. Cost Price. Accrued Interest on 31st December, 1906. " The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1899" Debentures, 34 per oent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Aot 1900" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1901 " Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1901" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Aot 1901" Debentures, 34 per cent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1902" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1902" Debentures, 3} per cent. "The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Aot 1903" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1903" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Aot 190S" Debentures, 4 per cent. " The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Aot 1906 " Debentures, 34 per oent. "The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1907" Debentures, 3J per cent. Canadian Debentures, 3f per oent. Canadian Debentures, 4 per cent. Canadian Debentures, 4 per cent. Canadian Stock, 4 per cent. Canadian Stock, 4 per oent. Canadian Stock, 3f per cent. Canadian Stock, 34 per cent. Canadian Stock, 3 per cent. Canadian Stock, 2J per cent. The Cape of Good Hope Consolidated Stook, 3J per cent. " The Consolidated Loan Act 1867 " Debentures, 4 per oent. .. " The Consolidated Stock Act 1884 " Debentures, 3J per cent... " The Consolidated Stock Act 1884 " Debentures, 3J per cent... " The Consolidated Stock Act 1884 " Debentures, 3J per cent... " The Consolidated Stock Act 1884 " Debentures, 3 per cent. .. " The Dairy Industry Act 1898 " Debentures, 3J per oent. "The Defence and other Purposes Loan Act 1870 " Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Defence and other Purposes Loan Act 1870" Debentures, 4J per cent. Dunedin Garrison Hall Debentures, 4} per cent. " The General Purposes Loan Aot 1873 " Debeutures, 4 per oent. Gold Coast Stock, 3 per cent. "The Government Advances to Settlers Aot 1894" Debentures, 3J per cent. " The Government Advances to Settlers Aot 1906 " Debentures, 3 J per cent. "The Government Advances to Settlers Extension Act 1901 " Debentures, 3J per cent. " The Government Advances to Workers Act 1906 " Debentures, 3J per cent. " The Government Advances to Workers Aot 1906 " Debentures, 3i per cent. "The Government Loans to Looal Bodies Act 1886" Debentures, 34 per cent. Greymouth Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. Hamilton Borough Debentures, 4J per cent. Hokitika Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. Hong Kong Stock, 3J per cent. " The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Act 1903 " Debentures, 3J per cent. "The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Act 1905 " Debentures, 3J per oent. "The Immigration and Public Works Loan Act 1870" Debentures, 41 per cent. " The Immigration and Publio Works Loan Act 1870 " Debentures, 4 per cent. India Stock, 3 per cent. India Stock, 34 per cent. Inscribed Stock, 3J per cent. Inscribed Stock, 3 per cent. Irish land Stock, 2} per cent. " The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900 " Debentures, 34 per oent. " The Land for Settlements Acts 1894 and 1897 " Debentures, 34 per cent. £ 8. d. 125,000 0 0 2,200 0 0 17,600 0 0 2,500 0 0 15,000 0 0 2,700 0 0 125,000 0 0 48,625 0 0 167,900 0 0 51,550 0 0 500,000 0 0 200,000 0 0 4,600 0 0 4,500 0 0 1,600 0 0 3,142 10 8 20,932 9 7 6,421 16 11 84,022 11 8 5,000 0 0 13,666 15 11 200 0 0 13,000 0 0 194,200 0 0 283,500 0 0 100,000 0 0 65,000 0 0 1,781 0 0 75,000 0 0 £ s. d. 125,000 0 0 2,199 0 0 17,600 0 0 2,500 0 0 15,000 0 0 2,700 0 0 125,000 0 0 48,625 0 0 167,900 0 0 51,550 0 0 500,000 0 0 200,000 0 0 4,623 0 0 4,590 0 0 1,656 0 0 3,205 7 8 21,141 16 1 6,453 19 1 33,852 9 8 4,800 0 0 10,933 8 9 186 1 3 12,480 0 0 194,200 0 0 283,500 0 0 100,000 0 0 65,000 0 0 1,781 0 0 72,000 0 0 £ s. d. 731 3 3 14 9 3 352 0 0 8 4 4 262 10 0 8 17 6 359 11 9 972 10 0 2,796 15 10 1,031 0 0 8,750 0 0 3,500 0 0 97 0 9 95 15 0 34 0 10 69 2 8 460 10 4 134 17 2 752 16 3 75 0 0 187 18 4 3 13 6 109 13 11 2,830 10 7 3,289 7 4 1,160 5 5 646 8 9 25 19 2 632 17 6 8,100 0 0 8,100 0 0 5,000 0 0 5,200 0 0 18,000 0 0 300,000 0 0 5,000 0 0 4,342 0 0 15,120 0 0 300,000 0 0 97 7 11 43 17 7 219 10 3 863 0 3 555,000 0 0 555,000 0 0 1,596 11 7 80,000 0 0 80,000 0 0 230 2 8 25,000 0 0 25,000 0 0 71 18 4 205,000 0 0 205,000 0 0 3,587 10 0 231,500 0 0 231,500 0 0 2,686 0 7 200,000 0 0 3,000 0 0 7,225 0 0 14,260 17 5 100,000 0 0 200,000 0 0 3,000 0 0 7,225 0 0 14,117 8 0 100,000 0 0 4,000 0 0 56 4 4 150 1 9 379 16 2 575 6 9 50,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 287 13 5 20,900 0 0 20,527 10 0 198 8 2 175,300 0 0 168,372 0 0 1,479 4 10 11 12 3 216 14 5 618,000 0 0 •2,260,495 11 1 100 0 0 741,066 0 0 10 5 0 218 18 9 618,000 0 0 2,244,582 18 0 89 15 0 741,066 0 0 0 18 2 18 11,273 17 10 18,602 11 6 0 13 0 4,334 14 6 62,000 0 0 62,000 0 0 541 0 3

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Table No. 8—continued. Securities, &c., Standing in the Name of the Postmaster-General on Account of the PostOffice Savings-Bank Fund on 31st December, 1908— continued.

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Description of Securities. Nominal Value. Cost Price. Accrued Interesl ou 31st Decembe: 1908. " The Land for Settlements Act 1900 " Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900" Debentures, 4 per cent. "The Land for Settlements Consolidation Aot 1900" Debentures, 34 per oent. " The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900 " Debentures, 34 per cent. " The Lands Improvement and Native Lands Acquisition Act 1894 " Debentures, 3J per cent. Leeds Corporation Stock, 3 per cent. "The Local Bodies' Loans Act 1901 " Debentures, 4 per cent. " The Local Bodies' Loans Act 1901 " Debentures, 34 per oent. " The Local Bodies' Loans Act 1908 " Debentures, 3J per cent. " The Maori Land Settlement Act 1905 " Debentures, 4 per cent. " The Maori Land Settlement Act Amendment Act 1907 " Debentures, 34 per cent. New South Wales Debentures, 4 per oent. New South Wales Stook, 4 per cent. New South Wales Stock, 3J per cent. New South Wales Stock, 34 per cent. New South Wales Stook, 3J per oent. " The New Zealand Consols Act 1894 " Debentures, 3J per cent. Oamaru Borough Consolidated Loan Debentures, 5 per oent. Oamaru Harbour Bonds Debentures, 54 per oent. Patea Harbour Board Debentures, 44 per cent. "The Post and Telegraph Act 1908 " Debentures, 34 per cent. " The Government Railways Aot 1908 " Debentures, 3J per cent. Reading Corporation Stock, 3 per cent. "The Reserve Fund Securities Aot 1907" Debentures, 3J per cent. " The Scenery Preservation Act 1903 " Debentures, 34 per cent. Sheffield Corporation Stock, 3 per cent. South Australian Debentures, 4 per cent. South Australian Debentures, 4 per cent. .. South Australian Debentures, 4 per oent. South Australian Stock, 4 per cent. South Australian Stook, 4 per cent. South Australian Stock, 4 per cent... South Australian Stock, 4 per cent. South Australian Stock, 34 per cent. Southern Nigeria Stock, 3J per cent. " The State Coal-mines Act 1901 " Debentures, 34 per cent. .. " The State Fire Insurance Aot 1903 " Debentures, 4 per cent. " The State Fire Insurance Act 1903 " Debentures, 34 per cent. Thames Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per oent. " The Public Revenues Aot 1893 " (Treasury bills), 34 per cent. Transvaal Stock, 3 per oent. Trinidad Stook, 4 per oent. Victorian Debentures, 4 per oent. .. Victorian Stook, 4 per oent. Viotorian Stock, 4 per cent. Victorian Stock, 4 per cent. Victorian Stock, 4 per cent. Victorian Stock, 3J per oent. Victorian Stock, 3J per oent. Victorian Stock, 3 per oent. Wellington City Council Debentures, 4 per cent. Wellington City Council Debentures, 4 per cent. Wellington Harbour Board Debentures, 4J per cent. Westport Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. Accrued interest on Post Office Aooount £ s. d. 13,900 0 0 1,100 0 0 £ s. d. 13,900 0 0 1,100 0 0 £ s. d. 278 0 0 18 6 5 27,000 0 0 27,000 0 0 177 10 8 10,650 0 0 10,650 0 0 155 4 7 28,000 0 0 28,000 0 0 490 0 0 339,000 0 0 339,000 0 0 2,990 12 3 14,000 0 0 55,000 0 0 1,216,000 0 0 50.000 0 0 600 0 0 50,000 0 0 12,280 0 0 55,000 0 0 1,240,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 600 0 0 50,000 0 0 210 0 0 729 6 3 14,456 19 5 285 5 S 12 0 0 875 0 0 19,800 0 0 5,486 6 7 32,000 0 0 53,000 0 0 10,496 8 10 27,590 0 0 13,800 0 0 30,000 0 0 26,870 0 0 200,000 0 0 40,000 0 0 6,500 0 0 800,000 0 0 20,097 0 0 5,815 10 2 31,840 0 0 52,735 0 0 10,417 15 5 27,496 5 0 13,800 0 0 30,000 0 0 26,870 0 0 200,000 0 0 40,000 0 0 6,795 3 9 800,000 0 0 417 13 6 120 14 0 455 5 8 601 12 0 192 17 1 402 2 7 345 0 0 691 12 10 480 6 11 3,010 19 1 615 7 5 102 7 6 11,660 3 9 30,000 0 0 963 15 10 13,000 0 0 9,700 0 0 1,500 0 0 906 15 6 191 10 0 1,772 16 2 1,979 18 9 39,000 0 0 17,000 0 0 100,000 0 0 500 0 0 1,500 0 0 10,000 0 0 299,200 0 0 42,602 18 5 2,861 9 10 10,000 0 0 11,073 17 8 19,443 12 1 1,547 16 9 750 15 5 24,000 0 0 60,000 0 0 12,379 19 10 100,000 0 0 25,000 0 0 28,900 0 0 489,500 0 0 30,000 0 0 838 10 0 13,130 0 0 9,700 0 0 1,515 0 0 915 16 10 198 8 4 1,861 9 0 1,999 14 9 38,220 0 0 16,320 0 0 100,000 0 0 500 0 0 1,500 0 0 10,000 0 0 299,200 0 0 40,046 14 11 2,918 14 5 10,100 0 0 11,184 12 5 19,638 1 5 1,547 16 9 758 5 7 23,520 0 0 58,800 0 0 j 10,708 13 10 99,000 0 0 ! 24,500 0 0 j 28,900 0 0 I 489,500 0 0 : 172 12 1 11 0 8 274 4 8 117 19 6 31 12 10 10 17 1 2 5 11 19 9 1 21 4 8 750 15 0 219 0 11 872 12 0 3 5 9 8 12 7 99 14 6 881 1 10 42 2 7 121 12 6 143 13 0 427 15 3 32 10 1 8 19 10 462 0 0 1,155 0 0 204 B 4 2,(XX) 0 0 500 0 0 420 12 8 9,790 0 0 602 6 3 •• Totals 12,226,086 1 7 12,182,157 9 5 139,852 8 3

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Table No. 9. Post-Office Sayings-Bank. Balance-sheet for the Year ended 31st December, 1908. Dr. £ s. d. Cr. £ s. d. Balance to credit of depositors on Ist Withdrawals during 1908 .. .. 9,417,820 10 3 January, 1908 .. .. .. 11,523,230 17 9 Balance to credit of depositors on 31st Deposits during 1908 .. .. 9,674,075 4 0 December, 1908 .. .. ..12,159,293 18 1 Interest credited to depositors, 1908 .. 379,808 6 7 £21,577,114 8 4 £21,577,114 8 4 Liabilities and Assets. Dr. £ s. d. Cr. £ a. d. Balance to credit of depositors on 31st Securities .. .. .. .. 12,182,157 9 5 1908 .. .. .. 12,159,293 18 1 Balance uninvested .. .. .. 249,707 011 Balance of assets over liabilities .. 272,570 12 3 £12,431,864 10 4 * £12,431,864 10 4 - Profit and Loss Account. Dr. £ s. d. Cr. £ s. d. Interest credited to depositors during 1908 379,808 6 7 Balance forward, Ist January, 1908 .. 254,457 7 5 Interest paid on debentures purchased by Interest received during £ s. d. Department .. .. 637 5 9 the year .. .. 405,165 5 6 Paid Public Account, for cost of Savings- Acorued interest on 31st bank management .. .. .. 27,000 0 0 December, 1908 .. 139,852 8 3 Loss on debentures at maturity .. 109 3 7 Balance to next account .. .. 272,570 12 3 545,017 13 9 Less acorued interest on 31st December, 1907 .. 119,378 12 11 425,639 0 10 Sundry receipts .. .. .. 28 19 11 £680,125 8 2 £680,125 8 2

Table No. 10. Return showing the Total Number of Post-Office Savings-Bank Accounts open on the 31st December, 1908, classified according to the Balances at Credit.

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PoRtal District. Not exceeding £20. Exceeding £20 and up to £50. Exceeding £50 and up to £100. Exceeding Exceeding' £100 and j £200 and up to £200. up to £300. Exceeding £300 and up to £400. Exceeding £400 and up to £500. Exceeding -500 and up to £600. -8 w.2 Total Number of Accounts open. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth .. Hokitika Invercargill .. Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington .. Westport 36,214 4,170 42,314 30,258 5,345 4,316 1,119 9,363 12,039 6,329 6,044 2,915 7,928 7,056 13,438 52,627 2,984 5,287 498 6,359 4,702 848 709 219 1,758 1,869 1,040 942 554 1,050 1,156 2,018 7,570 490 3,496 377 4,029 3,219 487 498 183 1,200 1,172 626 559 410 687 740 1,246 4,747 345 3,137 272 3,424 2,738 315 474 147 994 946 522 500 374 511 619 909 3,615 293 1,429 151 1,469 1,248 127 194 83 398 374 222 195 147 226 275 375 1,556 122 617 71 639 608 80 96 38 187 207 109 88 82 105 132 164 612 37 338 37 347 259 26 62 10 86 96 51 59 45 58 57 102 334 21 239 21 240 193 26 31 6 56 71 24 23 22 53 62 70 204 20 182 8 152 123 15 22 7 31 36 27 14 13 23 26 35 198 14 50,939 5,605 58,973 43,348 7,269 6,402 1,812 14,073 16,810 8,950 8,424 4,562 10,641 10,123 18,357 71,463 4,326 Totals, 1908 244,459 37,069 24,021 19,790 8,591 3,872 1,988 1,361 926 342,077 Totals, 1907 226,012 34,708 23,830 19,005 8,219 3,921 •3, 62 816 319,773 l-'.x. seeding £400 and up t< £800.

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Table No. 11. Return showing the Number and Amount of Old-age Pension Payments made each Month for the Two Years ended 31st March, 1909.

Return for same Period of Number of Payments and Amounts in each Postal District.

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1907-8. .908-9. Month. Number of Payments. Amount. Number of Payments. Amount. April May June July August September October ... November December 12,982 13,149 13,153 13,280 13,252 13,253 13,270 13,279 13,279 13,292 13,228 13,365 £ s. d. 26,597 2 1 26,938 3 6 .26,931 3 4 27,194 14 3 27,110 12 8 27,134 13 6 27,146 15 5 27,159 17 6 27,158 10 3 27,212 6 2 27,284 0 8 27,352 13 10 13,360 13,367 13,534 13,512 13,552 13,538 13,719 13,799 13,972 13,896 14,117 14,267 £ s. d. 27,341 11 6 27,363 17 2 27,694 17 9 27,670 11 8 27,703 19 7 27,685 9 11 28,045 12 9 28,209 9 6 28,593 19 8 28,456 5 10 28,871 1 6 29,176 4 2 January ... February... March Totals 158,782 325,220 13 2 164,633 336,813 1 0

1907-8. 1908-9. Postal District. Number of Payments. Amount. Number of Payments. Amount. Auckland... Blenheim... Christchurch Dunedin ... Gisborne ... Greymouth Hokitika ... Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru ... Thames ... Timaru ... Wanganui Wellington Westport... 33,147 1,797 26,008 24,828 1,238 6,016 6,303 9,842 5,580 3,397 2,902 3,365 5,795 5,500 4,592 14,821 3,651 £ s. 67,914 19 3,665 7 53,565 2 50,225 6 2,263 5 12,744 12 13,360 7 20,366 18 11,018 1 6,887 12 5,798 17 6,930 10 12,169 1 10,957 9 9,575 15 30,022 10 7,754 16 d. 1 9 6 8 2 2 0 3 3 3 3 4 6 9 6 7 2 34,071 1,837 27,218 26,022 1,212 6,108 6,294 10,138 5,912 3,436 2,975 3,524 6,079 5,961 4,697 15,656 3,493 £ s. d. 69,644 9 7 3,779 7 9 55,903 6 0 52,231 16 5 2.281 10 9 12,926 2 9 13,271 17 9 21,012 2 5 11,951 13 5 6,956 16 1 5,993 8 0 7.282 16 7 12,731 11 4 11,982 14 11 9,786 0 5 31,701 1 4 7,376 5 6 Totals 158,782 325,220 13 2 164,633 336,813 1 0

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Table No. 12. Table showing the Estimated Number of Letters and Letter-cards, Post-cards, Book-packets, Newspapers, and Parcels posted and delivered in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand during the Year ended 31st December, 1908.

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Postal Districts. Posted in the Dominion. I_«er-__r_s. Post - card »- Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Posted in the Dominion. Letters and Letter-cards. Postcards. Delivered in the Dominion. Newspapers. Parcel?. I'etteV-ardi Post-cards. Books, &c. | Newspapers. Parcels. Total posted and delivered. Books, &c. Auckland ■ Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth .. Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 14,871 ,642 1,076, 709 12,379,469 10,408,332 1,152,789 1,025,981 467,720 4,698,275 4,274,653 1,881,098 2,290,355 1,213,019 i,577,6i7 2,4io,539 5,403,955 20, 54 1,606 676,481 86,350,240 1,080,807 58,409 1,056,913 940,693 72,254 60,736 26,988 370,149 271,674 132,847 156,416 57,733 118,586 173,979 408,057 1,184,768 51,675 6,222,684 6,091 ,748 4,288,149 225,115 2,782,378 4.'37.793 306,549 165,306 100,876 1,057,286 1,092,601 395.590 527.379 202,514 260, 968 449,448 1,664,144 6,402,397 86,470 3.795.786 288,691 2,615,981 2,387,222 472,455 343,915 120,432 779,977 876,526 272,675 552,747 148,707 296,517 345,042 1,114,109 4,496,702 129,298 14,205,425 6,470 1,111,851 H3,342 13,350,376 ,109,052 10,726,547 11,731 1,331,616 , 9,031 1,199,159 6,068 606,619 21,238 5,360,199 34,500 4,662,359 17,256 1,830,998 ' 12,906 2,631,629 5,186 1,329,887 ; 9,781 1,719,328 9,050 2,521, 688 41,268 5,699,876 1244,073 119,978,088 j 6,741 824,226 925,886 79,794 1,017,861 1,618,513 84,409 83,421 62,660 517.972 300, 040 146,185 190,905 83,070 124,163 173,966 479,869 1,691,040 64,077 3.434.639: 265,265 2,906 ,215 3,829,280 314.964 214,760 266,032 1,924,169 1,358,669 477,7" 495,625 290, 082 333,9i8 483,470 2,069,223 6,240, 169 193,687 2,946,567219,154 29,077,067 415,688 6,995 2,188,560 2,529.995122,550 25,729,845 2,714,023117,909 21,134,879. 649,441! 12,684' 2,484,405 618,579 9,765 2,225,140 226,551 6,561 1,074,3391 1,232,907 22,963 10*058, 474J 1,308,229 37,302 8,937,012 579,189 18,658 3,712,096 907,712 13,954 4.921,984 248,963 5,607 2,542,906 504,153 10,575 3,296,945 534,118 9,785 4,932,227 1,921,049 44,620 11,103,831 4,712,422263,898 40,519,694! 272,545 7.287 1,500,707; 2,006,693 7,722,788 j 6,742,353 j 138,203 490,380 704,379 : 2,074,774 5,688,593 5,145,976 2,559,206 7,967,073 5,101,245 156,6635 621,513 j 1,121,896 144, 157 1 380,066 962,494 89,64S 366, 908 346, 983 888,121 2,981,455 2,012,884 571,714 2,451,270 2,184,755 279,032 873,301 851,864 347,321 1,023,004 1,460,459 140,803 492,596 397.670 242,749 594,886 800,670 347.945 1 932,9i8 879,160 887,926 3.733.367 3.035.158 2,875,80812,642,566 9,209,124 115,752 280,157 401.843 :3,866, 51549, 242, 841 41,358,913 421,841 13.465 235,892 226,961 24,415 18,796 12,629 44,201 71,802 35,9M 26,860 io,793 20,356 18,835 85,888 507,971 14,028 1,790,647 Totals 24,144,963 19,036,782 860,380 89,089,871 7,643,83125,097,878 6,457,75021,520,083 22,322,131930,267175,440,111 13,866,515! 49,242,841 Previous year 79,462,425 1,208,925 17,974,047 680,935 20,888,816776,528 159,680,654 142,729,008 38,862,863 1.457.463 80,218,229 12,549,4981

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Table No. 13. Registered Articles. The number of registered articles dealt with iv 1908, compared with the numbers in 1890, 1900, and 1907, is as follows : — 1890. 1900. 1907. 1908. From places beyond the Dominion ... 26,374 52,343 107,128 110,648 Registered in the Dominion ... 169,321 464,036 716,512 860,656 Totals ... 195,695 516,379 823,640 971,304 Dead Letters.

The number of inland, intercolonial, and international articles received and disposed of during the years 1907 and 1908 was as under: —

Table No. 14. Parcel-post. The following shows the number and weight of parcels posted during the years 1890, 1900, 1907, and 1908:— 1890. 1900. 1907. 1908. Number ... 121,292 199,413 680,935 860,380 Weight ... 336,6431b. 12oz. 682,1401b. 7 oz. 2,289,472 lb. 7 oz. 2,824,567 lb. 10oz.

The following table shows the number and weight of parcels exchanged with the United Kingdom and the undermentioned places during the years 1907 and 1908: —

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1907. 1908. [jetton and Post- Other Letter- cards. Articles. cards. Letters and Lettercards. Postcards. Other Articles. Inland. Returned, delivered. <&c, through Dead-letter Office .. Returned by Chief Postmasters direct Destroyed in accordance with law '141,677 145,085 13,886 1,588 8,857 •9,669 22,955 231,161 83,445 154,027 151,057 12,604 2,000 12,104 t10,701 17,406 210,247 96,167 Australian. Originally addressed to other States :— Returned to writers Destroyed in accordance with law Returned to other States as unclaimed 6,708 658 16,210 211 1,287 2,765 504 220 13,349 7,612 662 15,216 192 1,009 2,475 581 193 12,549 International. Originally addressed to other countries :— Returned to writers Destroyed in accordance with law Returned to other countries as unclaimed 11,835 1,160 22,843 420 2,556 3,057 1,036 385 47,879 13,785 1,199 20,251 374 1,961 3,245 763 254 34,195 Totals 360,062 30,410 400,904 376,413 34,061 372,315 * Including 4,000 tinsolled post-oards detained. f Including 2,000 tinselled post-cards detained.

Reci lived. Despatched. Country. Number. 1907. Weight. 1908. Number. ] Weight. 1907. 1906. Number. I Weight. Number. Weight. United Kingdom and foreign countries (via London) United States of Amcrioa .. Canada Victoria New South Wales South Australia Queensland Tasmania.. Western Australia Samoa Fiji Ceylon Uruguay Cape Colony Natal India 91,065 4,924 509 8,377 12,153 528 759 483 359 24 133 303 lb. oz.i 487,962 8 j 13,349 5 1,090 0 25,748 0 34,936 0 1,394 14 1,699 2J 1,196 0 812 2 98 4 314 24 1,047 34 lb. oz. •78,301 445,542 0 5,602 17,049 3 518 882 0 8,774 29,855 2 12,419 36,344 8 504 1,290 8 677 ! 1,627 3 527 1,255 0 399 924 14 14 48 12 123 291 3 390 1,643 14 11,098 1,124 377 3,453 5,257 502 749 707 530 212 468 103 88 185 300 256 lb. oz. 30,171 10 2.381 9 668 12 7,200 6 9,833 7 1,083 15 1.382 12 1,425 8 1,065 15 709 13 1,179 0 347 0 247 8 322 5 560 3J 717 31 11,353 1,165 336 3,569 5,103 514 669 721 521 110 468 84 89 144 230 252 lb. oz. 34,090 5 2,902 OJ 685 6 6,858 10 11,687 11 1,208 7 1,426 12 1,434 0 1,084 9 376 15 1,388 15 216 134 174 6 266 1 442 144 1,009 7J 418 105 862 664 8 169 4 3,954 12 431 761 9 100 162 14 994 I 4,870 2| Totals 121,002 574,436 14 109,773 542,548 OJ 25,409 59,296 14|: 25,328 65,253 4| • The decrease in parcels mt bulky paroels were raised received fi by the Lo rom the United Kingdom is due indon Post Office in July, 1907. ;o the faol that the rates of posl .age on light

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Table No. 15.-SUEZ SERVICES. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the undermentioned Places by the Packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Service.

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FRi Melbourne. Sydney. Bluff. Christchurch Wellington. Auckland. laximum (in days) linimum „ .verage 31 30 . 3015 32 31 31-15 40 37 38-12 41 38 3877 40 38 38-73 39 37 37-31 TO LONDON VIA BRINDI8I (P. AND O. PACKETS). Auckland. Wellington. I I Bluff. Sydney. Melbourne. laximum (in days) [inimum „ verage 41 37 37-54 37 35 35-5 41 39 39-54 33 31 31-52 32 30 30-52 Itatement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London an the undermentioned Places by the Packets of the Orient Line. PROM LONDON VIA NAPLES (ORIENT PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Bluff. Christchurch Wellington. Auokland. laximum (in days) linimum „ .verage 33 32 32 08 34 33 3312 39 37 38 39 38 38-81 41 38 38-81 43 37 37-54 TO LONDON VIA NAPLES (OR: ENT PACKET! I). I I Auckland. Wellington. Bluff. Sydney. Melbourne. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 44 39 40-81 40 37 37 96 44 41 41-92 36 33 33-92 85...-" 322___a.8 32-92

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Table No. 16. 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.

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- I I Number ol Telegrams lorwarded during the Year. Cost or Maintenance of Lines, excluding Australian Cable Subsidy. Number of Miles of Line. Number oi Miles or Wire. Z = x Private GovernE and Press. ment. Value ol Government Messages. Total Value ol Business done during the Year. Cost of Maintenance of Stations. Total Expenditure. Cost or Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Year ended Revenue from all Sources. Tarirtin Optration. Total. 30th June, 1866 699 1,390 13 24,761 2,746 27.407 £ s. d. 5.561 19 2 £ s. d. 483 3 2 £ s. d. 6,045 2 4 £ s. d. 3.934 3 4 £ s. d. 2,443 2 11 6,377 6 3 £ s- d. 3 9 10 Mileage tariff. 1867 757 1.498 21 55.621 15,331 70,952 9,070 10 1 3.77° 4 8 12,840 14 9 8,017 14 7 2,541 4 11 10,558 19 6 3 7 1 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 17 4 1869 1,329 2,495 1,661 2,897 45 106,070 50,097 56 122,545 62,878 156,167 18,520 10 4 13,430 11 9 3i.95i 2 1 14,266 12 7 8.547 4 9 22,813 17 4 6 8 6 Mileage tariff in operation up to 1st Sept., 1869; uniform 28. 6d. tariff tro,n 1st , Sept., i860, to 31st March, 1870; and is. tarirl from 1 1st April, 1R70. 1870 185,423 17,218 1 4 12,252 6 o 29.470 7 4 16,417 7 4 14,120 4 10 30,537 12 2 8 9 ii 1871 i,976 3.247 2,185 3.823 72 253,582 59,292 8 1 344.524 67,243 93 485.507 83,453 105 645,067 107,832 127 786,237 130,891 142 890,382 160,704 312,874 22,419 8 8 9,876 17 6 32,296 6 2 21,254 4 3 11.344 3 8 32,598 7 n 5 19 6 1872 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 2.356 4.574 568,960 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 2,530 5,782 752,899 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 2,986 6,626 917,128 55,301 12 3 13,679 10 9 68,981 3 o 45,814 11 4 14,240 19 7 60,055 IO " 4 16 4 1876 3,154 7,247 1,051,086 62,715 10 4 16,154 6 o 78,869 16 4 61,696 14 5 21,074 8 8 82,771 3 1 5 18 10 1877 3.259 7.423 . 65,644 15 3 17,024 8 9 82,669 4 o 63.353 10 10 155 952,283 172,159 1.124,442 17,931 8 o 81,284 18 10 5 12 11 1878 3,434 8,035 182 1,065,481 194,843 1,260,324 73,284 1 10 19,148 12 4 92,432 14 2 69,340 1 8 18,259 4 9 87.599 6 5 5 10 o From 1st November, 1873, address and signature given in free. 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 3 509 31st March, 1880 3,638 9.333 214 824,734 1183,675 1,008,409 58,120 3 3 19,707 6 3 77,827 9 6 68,651 IO IO 14,758 4 5 83.409 15 3 4 3 4 • 1881 3.758 9,587 227 1,058,342 246,370 234 1,215.849 222,923 1,304,712 73,002 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 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 18 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.

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0 0 Number ol Telegram's during the Ye; torwarded it. Cost or Cost or Maintenance Maintenance Unc^ __~_\ excluding Stat.ons. AustralianC f a bl. Subsidy. Year ended Number ol Miles or Line. or Miles or Wire. z Private Governand Press. ment. Revenue from all Sources. Total Value Value ot or Government Business done Messages. during the Year. Total Expenditure. Cost ol Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Tariff in Operation. Total. 31st Dec, 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 I890 1891 1892 1893 3.974 4.074 4,264 4.463 4.546 4.646 4.790 4.874 5.148 5.349 5,479 5,513 9,848 10,037 10,474 10,931 11,178 ",375 11,617 11,827 12,812 13,235 13,459 13,515 264 302 330 375 412 437 473 489 520 573 615 640 1,361,817 208,372 1,379,483 219,917 1,433,458 220,847 i,533,4o6 240,867 1,583,717 252,549 1,589.771 245,623 1,548,233 217,630 1,589.157 213,830 i,734.38i 226,780 1,746,115 222,149 1, 686, 064 218, 079 1,825,646 244,045 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 1,904,143 2,069,691 £ «■ d. 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 "7,633 15 9 103,813 8 64 112,465 15 9 £ s- d. 20,608 11 n 21,555 19 2 20,855 19 7 24,860 9 o 27,281 4 9 30,205 II IO 23,164 13 II 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 I 4 128,155 15 64 140,783 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 IO o 72,201 13 5 75,426 9 7 76,845 1 10 85,658 4 n 87,472 13 3 92,109 17 o £ s- d. 22,451 6 3 19,210 6 6 20,041 15 10 20,900 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 £ s. 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 9 117,053 4 2 121,251 3 o £ s- d. 5 17 5 4 16 8 4 18 4 4 15 9 4 15 11 4 13 9 5 o 1 5 8 7 5 13 o 5 12 7 580 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 ended 31st March, 1895, to 31st March, 1909. Year ended Number or Miles or Line. Number ] O . or 1-3. Miles or _=- Wire. _,° E 2 Number d or Telegrams forwarded luring the Year. Govern- T< _ ment. Revenue (including Miscellaneous Receipts). Telegraph. Telephone. Value ol Government Messages. * Total Value of Business done during the Year. Total Expenditure {excluding Cable Subsidy). Remarks. Private and Press. 31st March, 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 » 1900 1901 , 1902 1903 1904 1905 » 1906 1907 1908 1909 5,96l4 6,2454 6,284} 6,484 6,736 6,910 7,2491 7,469 7,748. 7,779f 7.943s 8,355 8,953 9,656 10,404 14,8814 15,764! 16,470! 18,024 18,746 19,228 20,682| 2 1 ,705 22,-723 22,9204 23,704 25,116 27,031 29.343 32,654 705 743 780 824 878 915 991 1,038 1,103 I.I53 1,200 1,312 1,446 1,611 1,764 1,802,182 1,899,632 2,285,001 2,469,415 2,717.548 3.159.093 3.534.444 3,850,391 4,271 ,218 4,671,904 4,900,495 5,351,084 6,160,080 6,958,279 7.338,017 231,618 224,579 235,168 226,818 243,190 310,538 363,684 317.590 288,086 293,293 259,250 289,135 236,252 84,644 87,676 2,033,800 2,124,211 2,520,169 2,696,233 2,960,738 3,469,631 3,898,128 4,167,981 4.559,304 4.965,197 5,159,745 5,640,219 6,396,332 7,042,923 7,425,693 £ s- d. 88,459 10 11 : 97,178 14 04 100,385 16 I 99,798 8 ioj 105,576 6 o 119,641 11 64 137,861 1 24 151,933 19 " 160,343 7 7 166,535 18 84 171,001 13 114 184,369 6 2 206,706 15 84 227,398 6 8 238,103 16 5 £ s- d. 21,552 12 10 25,933 12 9 29,248 19 5 36.422 6 8 39,7i8 7 7 43,303 2 10 49,117 o 8 55,542 4 9 62,151 8 11 71,028 6 3 79,061 7 4 89,542 1 5 100,814 o 3 116,852 13 10 131,249 o 7 £ s. d. 26,050 7 5 25,843 11 11 23,118 2 6 24,504 9 8 25,500 5 10 29,431 19 o 35,327 6 2 27,507 17 6 26,440 2 10 24,377 1 7 20,597 11 10 24,168 10 4 17,486 19 8 4,498 16 74 4,821 IO IO £ s. d. 136,062 11 2 148,955 18 84 152,752 18 o 160,725 5 24 170,794 19 5 192,376 13 44 222,305 8 04 234,984 2 2 248,934 19 4 261,941 6 64 270,660 13 14 298,079 17 11 325,007 15 74 348,749 17 i. 374,174 7 10 £ s- d. 135,791 o 7 143,665 14 o 153,484 6 8 165,198 13 5 173,152 16 6 181,634 11 3 194,014 12 11 212,180 16 o 228,185 10 7 245,805 9 7 258,977 10 9 276.580 12 5 291,359 12 6 357.581 .1 3 394,649 19 6 £ s- d. Cable subsidy, 6,492 n 8 4-774 5 5 3.972 8 1 1,849 2 9 1,427 19 11 1,608 7 1 „ 1,000 8 6 . 234 15 o . 181 10 o 10,057 11 7 Note. —Tariff, 1890 : is. for ten words, and free address and signature up to ten words ; delayed telegrams, 6d. 1892 : For twelve words, and free address and signature, ordinary telegrams, is.; delayed, 6d. Later in 1892 the number of words in text and signature made eighteen. 1896: First twelve words, 6d.; each additional word, id.; address and signature paid for. 1906: For each additional word after first twelve 4d.

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Table No. 17. Table showing the Cash Revenue derived from Paid Telegrams of all Codes, the Value of Franked Government Telegrams, and the Number of Telegrams transmitted in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand for the Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1909.

Table No. 18. Table showing the Paid Telegrams of all Codes forwarded during the Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1909, and the Revenue received therefrom.

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Postal Districts. Revenue derived from Paid Telegrams of all Codes. Value or Franked Government Telegrams. v-w'.r Number or Value or v~-a Tel T„de S s° fa " Tele^ms. Number of Franked Government Telegrams. Total Number or Telegrams or all Codes. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth .. Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport £ s. d. 43.702 11 94 4.563 4 io4 ! 24,544 10 34 20,905 3 II i 7.132 3 841 5.309 1 6 2,092 13 74 11,751 14 114 14.742 o 44 5,4i8 7 7i, 6,813 17 84 : 3,399 6 11 [ 6,973 18 ij 6,105 3 10 15,709 13 10 50,619 2 o 3,733 15 3 / •• d. 824 16 o 210 2 1 426 18 ij 364 12 7 • 69 5 1 169 17 9 16 18 7 178 14 3 179 7 104 499 15 7. 241 5 2 36 14 6,} 49 7 9 79 10 10 86 3 14 1,026 17 44 361 4 1 £ s. d. 44.527 7 9_ 4,773 6 114 24,971 8 5 21,269 16 6 7,201 8 94 5,478 19 3 2,109 12 24 11,930 9 24 14,921 8 3 5,9i8 3 3 7,055 2 104 3,436 1 54 7,023 5 104 6,184 14 8 15,795 16 n4 51,645 19 4_ 4.094 19 4 1,381,584 138,205 733,040 643,302 206,519 155.504 64,345 374,452 515,023 253,318 210,972 93,779 215,425 194,095 507,805 1.543.475 107,174 15,041 4,201 7,824 5,641 1,339 3,385 224 3,392 3,362 9,541 4,778 710 592 1,498 1,616 18,259 6,273 1,396,625 142,406 740,864 648,943 207,858 158,889 64,569 377,844 518,385 262,859 215,750 94,489 216,017 195,593 509,421 1,561,734 "3,447 Totals, 1908-9 233,516 10 4 4,821 10 10 238,338 1 2 J7.338,017 87,676 7,425,693 Totals, 1907-8 222,925 18 5 4,498 16 74 [227,424 15 o4 6,958,279 84,644 7,042,923

June luarter, 1908. September Quarter, 1908. December Quarter, 1908. March 'otals. luarter, 1909. Class ol Telegrams. Number. Revenue. Number. Revenue. Number. Revenue. Number, Revenue. Number. Revenue. Irdinary .. Irgent 'ress lureau 1,244.724 57.967 108,372 325.096 £ *• d. 53.303 4 3 3,582 1 10 5,580 12 1 7.321 18 9 1,202,310; 55.231 m,I44 333.626 £ s. d. I s. d. 153,361 9 041,389,19258,572 18 9 3,44314 6 J 68,488 3,811 o 10 5.793 18 24 108,582 5,535 6 o 7.48i 3 3 374,649 8,437 12 9 1,400,981 61,302 106,631 389,722 / s. d. 59,025 7 6 3,868 14 1 5.985 7 7 8,871 11 o 5,237,207 242,988 434,729 1,423,093 £ s. d. 224,262 19 64 14.705 11 3 22,895 3 io4 32,112 5 9 Iross totals .ess other I lines and [ credits ) i,736,i59 69,787 16 11 14,576 13 114 1,702,311 70,080 5 o 15.950 11 7 1,940,911 76,356 i8 4 14,823 14 84 1,958,636 77,751 o 2 15,108 9 IO 7,338,017 293,976 o 5 60,459 10 1 [et totals, 1908-9 let totals, 1907-8 1.736,159! 15.2II 2 Il4 1,702,311 54.129 13 5 1,940,911 ,6i,533 3 7J 1.958,636 62,642 10 4 7,338,017 233,516 10 4 1,621,204 ii.937 4 5_ 1,594.727 50,921 8 9 1 1.835.583; 58,794 16 041 1,906,71 .1,272 9 2 958.27' 222,925 18 5

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Table No. 19. Table showing the Class and Number of Instruments and Batteries in use at Telegraph Offices for the Year ended 31st March, 1909.

Table No. 20. Table showing the Cost of Maintenance of Telegraph Lines for the Year ended 31st March, 1909.

Number of Morse Instruments in Use (Full Sets). Number of Duplexes Nl]TrihBr (Differential). NumDer Nomber j 6.undVr Q"^°-_ P le_ Single Double gets. ° et Current. Current. Number of Automatic Sets. District. Intermittent Constant Current. Current. Auckland Wellington Nelson .. Christchurch Dunedin 47 (ro 37 19 81 56 148 6 95 103 12 18 8 3 1 5 12 10 4 1 10 17 21 i 'J 8 1 4 '_ 1 Totals 250 408 42 32 10 59 Number ol Telephone! not connected witl Exchange. (umber ol Cells. DiRtrict. Number of QuadrupleTranslator Sets. Leelanehe. Gordon. Daniell. Bichromate. Storage. .uckland Vellington lelson ihristchurch )unedin 5 8 3 _ 1 304 13 79 46 120 7,030 10,330 3,638 1,800 5,256 70 494 725 1,446 293 256 162 881 40 450 84 630 70 6 48 4 2 i Totals 3,527 784 19 569 28,054 1,290 64

Dietrict. Miles of Wire. TravellingMiles j expenses of of Inspectors Line. I and Linemen. Extra Labour. Cost of Material purchased. Value of Material issued from Stores. Salaries of Inspectors and Linemen. Total Cost of Maintenance. Average Cost per Mile of Line. Auckland Wellington Nelson .. Canterbury Otago 7,351 10,231 3,898 4,797 6,377 2,631 2,635 1,464 1,243 2,431 £ s. d. 1,124 4 6 1,386 12 10 1,162 7 8 1,089 6 3: 1,219 11 9; £ s. d. 2,732 5 7 3,337 9 0 2,326 15 5 4,782 14 10 2,010 4 8 £ s. d 1,586 5 11 491 3 2 605 12 11 2,537 12 7 918 5 6 £ a. d. 1,478 19 2! 3,377 10 2 1,027 15 9 3,679 19 8 852 12 0 £ s. d. 3,613 0 0 4,430 0 0 2,201 0 0 2,973 0 0 2,176 0 0 £ s. d. 10,534 15 2 13,022 15 2 7,323 11 9 15,062 13 4 7,176 13 11 £ s. d. 4 0 1 4 18 10 5 0 1 12 2 4 2 19 1 Cables Stores .. 32,654 knots 368 10,404 5,982 3 0 15,189 9 6 6,139 0 1 10,416 16 9 15,393 0 0 53,120 9 4 5 2 1 97 19 4 132 9 6 2,393 0 5 926 12 4 123 17 1 2,563 6 11 1,192 8 0 50 0 0 458 0 0 3,857 4 10 4,080 8 9 10 9 8 Totali 6,212 11 10 18,509 2 3! 8,826 4 1 '15,901 0 11,609 4 9 61,058 2 11

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Table No. 21. Table showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1909.

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Line Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Telephone exchanges,— Ashburton Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dannevirke ... Dunedin Feilding Gisborne Greymouth ... Hamilton Hawera Hokitika Invercargill ... Lawrence ... ... *... Levin Masterton Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Pahiatua Palmerston North Rotorua Stratford Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington ... Westport Whangarei ... I £ s. d. 31 18 8 6,945 6 7 54 16 2 5,944 1 7 44 9 9 4,130 15 1 137 17 4 349 4 7 65 2 2 598 4 11 28 0 5 21 5 4 3,220 16 10 0 3 6 56 8 2 227 16 3 554 5 11 132 15 11 99 13 1 91 19 11 82 7 3 105 5 3 61 8 10 11 4 6 278 4 0 2,379 0 7 1,989 17 0 5,194 5 2 7 10 11 29 12 1 £ s. d. 191 13 5 6,610 14 1 410 11 3 7,088 17 5 165 18 2 3,059 2 7 390 19 6 1,064 4 3 389 16 3 390 10 7 460 9 11 70 1 10 1,363 14 11 80 14 0 863 15 4 1,917 14 5 181 8 6 467 2 7 205 7 1 375 12 9 517 7 6 262 15 11 179 2 4 250 8 7 1,863 17 7 3,151 12 7 18,266 9 6 156 6 3 81 6 1 £ s. d. 191 13 5 6,610 14 1 410 11 3 7,088 17 5 165 18 2 3,059 2 7 390 19 6 1,064 4 3 389 16 3 390 10 7 460 9 11 70 1 10 1,363 14 11 80 14 0 863 15 4 1,917 14 5 181 8 6 467 2 7 205 7 1 375 12 9 517 7 6 262 15 11 179 2 4 250 8 7 1,863 17 7 3,151 12 7 18,266 9 6 156 6 3 81 6 1 I. £ S. d. » 223 12 1 13,556 0 8 ! 465 7 5 i 13,03_ 19 0 I 210 7 11 7,189 17 8 i 528 16 10 1 1,413 8 10 I 454 18 5 988 15 6 488 10 4 1 91 7 2 4,584 11 9 0 3 6 ) 137 2 2 1,091 11 7 , 2,472 0 4 i 314 4 5 566 15 8 297 7 0 I 458 0 0 i 622 12 9 324 4 9 . I 190 6 10 528 12 7 4,242 18 2 5,141 9 7 i | 23,460 14 8 I 163 17 2 110 18 2 Total exchanges 32,873 17 9 50,477 15 2 83,351 12 11 Paranui - Mangonui - Victoria Valley line ... Kaikohe-Taheke Arapohue (Te Kopuru - Raupo) Dargaville - Te Kopuru - Aratapu Kaihu-Mangata (Tutamoe-Waimatenui) ... Pakaraka- Turntable Hill Waitangi-Paihia-Ohaeawai Kawakawa-Towai Towai-Marlow... Utakura (branch off Rawene-Horeke) Port Charles, Great Barrier Rawhitu-Whangamumu... Russell - Cape Brett Manawaora (branch off Russell- Cape Brett) Titoki (Whangarei-Poroti) Pakotai (Whangarei-Titoki) Titoki-Parakao Raupo (Ruawai-Mapau)... Batley (Waipu-Whakapirau) Ararua (off Matakohe - Waipu line) Whangateau (branch off \V ark worth-Leigh) Opuawhanga (Whangarei-Hukerenui) Whangarei-Opau Hikurangi-Whananaki-Marua Hukerenui-Paiaka Whangarei-Hikurangi (Morse) Luscombe (Waipu-Matakohe) Waihungarua ... Waihungarua (Waipu-Matakohe)... Mareretu-Paparoa Kaipara Plats - Waiwawa 60 7 6 0 14 10 27 4 9 15 13 3 0 12 6 1 2 11 68 8 7 28 4 9 73 18 7 367 12 7 308 12 0 148 15 1 101 15 3 12 3 2 43 19 7 13 19 0 72 9 9 64 13 10 13 2 3 14 8 4 1 1 2 20 5 0 80 9 11 5 7 7 73 13 5 6 12 0 21 10 2 33 2 5 5 12 10 42 2 8 72 10 8 44 14 5 41 3 9 88 3 0 65 6 4 14 5 2 82 16 11 28 4 9 74 19 9 20 5 0 448 2 6 5 7 7 382 5 5 6 12 0 170 5 3 134 17 8 5 12 10 118 7 4 291 7 11 72 15 0 5 13 3 56 2 5 18 11 8 126 2 7 30 19 2 71 19 0 33 4 4 51 14 8 35 9 3 3 12 11 7 16 6 76 4 8 291 7 11 72 15 0 34 10 6 7 13 6 80 13 10 29 18 8 15 13 11 6 15 9 45 2 2 35 9 3 3 12 11 7 16 6 5 13 3 21 11 11 10 18 2 45 8 9 10 6 56 5 1 26 8 7 6 12 6

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Table No. 21 — continued. Table showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1909 — continued.

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Taioatea (Auckland-Albany) Waitakerei (Auckland-Waimauku) Waitakerei-Taupaki Manukau Heads - Orua Bay Papakura (Auckland-Papatoetoe)... Auckland-Hamilton (metallic circuit) Auckland-Mangonui Auckland-Morrinsville ... Auckland-Point Chevalier Auekland-Pukekohe Auckland-Taumarunui ... Grey Lynn-East Lynn ... Alfriston (Brookby-Manurewa) Glen Murray - Woodleigh .-?. Marokopa (Kawhia-Te Maika) Oparau Ferry ... Aotea (Hamilton-Kawhia) Patu (off Ongarue-Ohura) Mercer-Miranda Marainarua (Mercer-Miranda) Tuhikaramea (Hamilton-Okete) ... Otangiwai (Ongarue-Ohura) Eureka Railway (Cambridge-Eureka) Hamilton-Te Kapa Hamilton - Te Kuiti - Paemako ... Hamilton - Te Awamutu Karamu (Hamilton-Okete) Gordonton-Orini Mangaotaki Kaipaki (Ohaupo-Kaipaki) Matangi-Tauwhare Otorohanga-Raurimu Thames-Hiku taia Whenuakite (Whitianga-Tairua) ... Nevesville (Hikuai-Puketui) Otakeo (Thames-Tapu) ... Kereta (Thames-Tapu) ... Waiomio (Thames-Tapu) Paeroa-Netherton Morrinsville-Teawha Morrinsville-Tahuna Moirinsville-Hamilton (metallic circuit) Mokai (Taupo-Atiainuri) Opouriao-Ruatoki Tauranga-Te Puke (metallic circuit) Te Wairoa (Rotorua-Okere) Waimana (Whakatane-Te Teko) ... Opotiki-Toatoa... Matahaina (Opotiki-Waioweka) ... Kahukura Junction - Port Awanui Kahukura - Te Araroa ... Puha (lead off Motu) Te Karaka - Motu Tolaga Bay - Hauiti W h arerat a-Morere Taupo-Tokaanu Napier-Dannevirke (metallic circuit) Dannevirke-Ormondville Dannevirke-Mangatoro- Weber ... Ormondville-Takapau ... Ngapaeruru-Mangahei ... Makuri-Pongaroa ... ... Waihoki Valley - Waterfalls Maku-Waimiro £ s. d. 13 0 10 7 0 4 51 18 7 45 5 10 21 10 8 608 9 5 50 0 0 47 2 5 £ s. d. 9 13 5 8 19 6 10 12 11 18 8 10 £ s. d. 22 14 3 15 19 10 62 11 6 63 14 8 21 10 8 3,497 7 10 1,506 10 3 1,214 5 9 9 17 0 207 19 5 2,198 6 10 7 11 9 118 11 11 81 8 6 362 1 5 5 5 7 72 18 2 7 8 7 55 13 7 61 19 1 64 16 11 11 18 3 45 15 8 10 15 11 440 11 1 58 5 5 50 10 4 27 15 0 29 4 1 33 8 8 47 9 0 3,425 12 8 48 12 0 12 3 5 197 19 1 2 2 0 68 18 8 1 10 0 1 19 10 793 15 6 160 13 1 40 12 8 82 11 1 12 6 7 339 17 1 0 5 6 202 14 5 59 18 11 22 14 3 46 7 1 258 17 6 8 7 5 664 16 1 11 10 7 162 8 9 472 9 5 2,004 11 4 1 13 10 87 7 7 361 4 0 33 0 10 102 4 3 55 18 6 94 14 3 17414 5 .152 1 6 2,888 18 5 1,456 10 3 1,167 3 4 9 17 0 33 5 0 2,046 5 4 7 11 9 24 11 5 94 0 6 81 8 6 310 0 2 52" 1 3 5 5 7 72 18 2 7 8 7 13 7 43 12 8 64 16 11 11 18 3 33 14 4 5 19 9 429 5 10 58 5 5 36 0 3 0 10 6 18" 6 5 12 1 4 4 16 2 11 5 3 14 10 1 27 4 6 29 4 1 33 8 8 47 9 0 2,297 2 9 32 4 1 5 10 3 197 19 1 2 2 0 32 16 4 1 10 0 1 19 10 93 14 8 128 15 10 40 12 8 82 11 1 1,128 9 11 16 7 11 6 13 2 36" 2 4 700 0 10 31 17 3 109 12 2 0 5 6 136 11 2 3 6 1 1 12 6 22 1 0 24 4 7 10 0 336 10 6 4 12 6 157 4 6 471 18 2 1,174 19 6 12" 6 7 230 4 11 66 3 3 56 12 10 21 1 9 24 6 1 234 12 11 7 7 5 328 5 7 6 18 1 5 4 3 0 11 3 829 11 10 1 13 10 3 17 11 361 4 0 1 6 0 51 7 7 0 13 6 6 9 11 83" 9 8 31 14 10 50 16 8 55 5 0 88 4 4

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Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Tiraumea-Haunui Mangatuna—Mangatoro ... Mangatoro-Mangawhio ... Mangatoro-Awariki Kaikora North - Waipawa Puketapu-Puketitiri Napier-Gisborne Napier-Wairoa (metallic circuit) ... Napier-Hastings (metallic circuit) Moeangiangi (cut Napier-Wairoa) New Plymouth - Opunake (metallic circuit) New Plymouth -Mahoenui Ingle wood-Kaimiro Egmont Village-Kaimiro Cardiff-Lowgarth-Mahoe Kaponga-Rowan Hawera-Waveriey (metallic circuit) Mokoia-Whakamara-Meremere ... Wanganui-Waveriey (metallic circuit) Wanganui-Westmere Mangawhio Makirikiri-Makatihi Patea-Hurleyville Marton-Hunterville (metallic circuit) Marton - Marton Junction Hunterville - Sandon Block Manaia-Opunake Taihape-Winiata Taihape-Utiku... Ngawaka (Taihape-Moewhanga) ... Ohakune-Horopito Manga weka-Ruahine Feilding (Bull's-Marton)... Feilding (Stanway) Taonui (Feilding - Palmerston North metallic circuit) Colyton-Waiata Kimbolton Trunk Wire ... Apiti-Table Flat Apiti-Kaheke ... Komako-Utuwai Marima-Nikau... Fox-on-Longburn Palmerston North-Shannon Palmerston North - Ashhurst (metallic circuit) Himatangi - Oroua Downs Otaki - Otaki Gorge Wellington (underground metallic circuit) ... Wellington-Vogeltown (metallic circuit) Wellington-Khandallah-Johnsonville-Ngaio Wellington-Paekakariki... Wellington-Levin (metallic circuit) Wellington-Pahiatua (metallic circuit) Wellington-Pori - Saunders Road ... Wellington-Dunedin (metallic circuit) Te Paro - Cape Palliser ... Hutt - Upper Hutt Hutt-Day's Bay (metallic circuit) Worser Bay - Karaka Bay ... Picton-Okukari-Wharehunga Blenheim-Seddon (metallic circuit) Blenheim - Cape Campbell Blenheim-Flaxbourne (metallic circuit) £ s. d. 21 4 8 0 17 0 0 17 6 0 12 6 45 14 9 168 8 9 12 9 0 218 3 10 75 12 10 £ s. d. i" i o 61 19 8 331 7 2 £ 8. d. 21 4 8 1 18 0 0 17 6 0 12 6 107 14 5 499 15 11 12 9 0 227 8 8 234 4 11 7 3 0 750 1 6 35 10 6 74 12 11 40 2 1 86 4 6 32 8 0 236 4 11 50 5 11 480 2 11 11 13 9 16 4 648 6 11 46 8 10 148 16 4 14 11 11 110 9 4 91 14 10 6 16 11 52 17 7 35 13 7 463 9 1 187 19 3 17 4 6 201 13 1 7 12 5 9 4 10 158 12 1 7 3 0 194 4 6 555 17 0 35 10 6 74 12 11 14 0 0 17 0 14 12 4 65 11 7 45 4 0 237 13 6 11 13 9 14 6 285 4 2 38 18 1 85 7 6 17 15 8 170 13 4 5 1 11 242 9 5 78 1 1 108 18 6 0 1 10 363 2 9 46 8 10 70 15 3 14 11 11 1 10 10 91 14 10 5 15 11 52 17 7 8 4 5 66 10 8 45 8 0 1 1 0 27 9 2 396 18 5 142 11 3 17 4 6 71 4 10 0 13 0 130' 8 3 6 19 5 54 12 11 78 5 3 1 18 0 14 13 4 101 9 2 13 15 3 10 11 9 5 13 1 81 5 3 10 10 10 22 19 6 1 5 10 15 14 11 156 2 1 13 15 3 88 17 0 5 13 1 83 3 3 25 4 2 22 19 6 3 16 4 40 4 6 2 10 6 24 9 7 17 6 9;374 14 9 7 15 0 0 10 8 153 15 11 448 11 1 656 0 1 1 19 0 1,396 4 10 18 0 9 5 4 5 21 8 5 18 8 2 4 13 11 347 18 2 1,308 9 10 1,913 9 10 4,350 4 6 283 12 3 183 13 2 51 19 9 40 11 3 36 12 3 95 16 8 235 9 5 456 12 10 5 4 5 1 7 6 9,396 3 2 26 3 2 5 4 7 501 14 1 1,757 0 11 2,569 9 11 1 19 0 5,746 9 4 301 13 0 183 13 2 121 2 9 70 17 0 71 10 4 329 7 7 235 9 5 589 3 0 69 3 0 30 5 9 34 18 1 233 10 11 132 10 2

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Table No. 21— continued. Table showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1909—continued.

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Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Blenheim-Kekerangu-Kaikoura ... Blenheim-Nelson Grovetown (cut in Blenheim - Spring Creek) Weld's Hill - Molesworth Pauri-Molesworth Wairau Valley - North Bank Wairau Valley-Te Rou ... Havelock-Kaiuma Teakau - Waitai - Patuki - D'Urville Island Woodman's - D'Urville Island Stephen's Island Nelson - Tatahi Nelson-Atawhai Top Valley Fork ... ... - Richmond-Motueka Appleby - Upper Moutere Farewell Spit ... Belgrove-Kohatu Ngatimote-Pokororo Ngatimote-Uruwhenua ... Tophouse-Kikiwa Baton... Collingwood-Parapara ... Rakopi-Mangarakau Longford-Murchison Karamea - Lower Wanganui Ferry Karamea-Arapito St. Helen's - Westport ... Ikamatua-Little Grey Junction ... Westport-Karamea Blackball - Roa Extension Greymouth-Otira (copper wire) ... Teremakau-Hohonui Kumara - Teremakau Settlement ... Hokitika - Lyell Mine Creek Kakapotahi - Waitaha Settlement Wataroa - Wataroa Flat - Rotokino Ross-Okarito ... Harihari (fork on Okarito line) Rotokino (fork on Okarito line) Tatare (on Okarito - Bruce Bay line) Bruce Bay - Okura Christchurch-Otira Kaikoura-Clarence Bridge Kaikoura-Conway Kaikoura-Pukekakariki ... Waiau-Conway Ashley-Balcairn (Amberley metallic circuit) Christchurch-Kaikoura ... Christchurch (metallic circuit) Christchurch-Kaiapoi (metallic circuit) Christchurch-Timaru (trunk line)... Christchurch-Taitapu Christch urch-Hornby Christchurch-Fendalton ... Christchurch-Rakaia (metallic circuit) Christchurch-Marshlands Kaiapoi-Eyreton Templeton-Weedon's Rakaia-Methven-Lyndhurst Akaroa - French Farm ... Christchurch - Little River Little River-Puha £ s. d. 12 5 7 £ s. d. 6 11 7 3 13 3 6 10 6 £ s. d. 18 17 2 3 13 3 6 10 6 4 10 0 8 18 6 77 0 6 18 4 9 45 1 6 18 15 3 3 17 6 377 17 7 50 11 1 16 14 9 1 7 6 1 12 0 57 11 5 4 0 0 78 0 3 135 8 0 65 14 2 58 12 5 10 0 33 11 2 5 9 2 177 9 11 97 2 3 26 19 0 242 16 8 3 19 2 6 19 4 62 15 4 504 16 3 76 6 6 22 15 9 86 1 10 43 5 1 134 3 5 60 0 6 8 7 11 4 10 0 8 18 6 35 13 0 14 13 9 15 0 1 0 0 3 17 6 377 4 7 '10 8 0 4 10 0 1 7 6 1 12 0 27 6 6 4 0 0 42 5 2 107 3 1 21 13 6 27 15 11 1 0 0 15 19 6 1 0 0 144 16 6 47 18 5 16 0 6 101 1 8 3 19 2 6 19 4 22 13 10 152 0 7 62 17 3 11 4 0 62 7 3 35 1 10 108 4 6 41 7 6 3 11 0 43 16 6 17 15 3 0 13 0 40 3 1 12 4 9 30 4 11 35 15 1 28 4 11 44 0 8 30 16 6 17 11 8 4 9 2 32 13 5 49 3 10 10 18 6 141 15 0 40 1 6 352 15 8 13 9 3 11 11 9 23 14 7 8 3 3 25 18 11 60 0 6 4 9 2 3 18 9 9 4 3 5 3 0 14 7 3 15 0 0 200 13 0 153 2 10 15 0 0 200 13 0 241 5 7 20 10 0 0 10 0 151 2 10 409 15 6 27 18 8 333 15 1 33 0 11 388 11 10 2 0 0 17 11 1 9 0 0 1,370 15 3 13 12 6 0 15 0 42 3 6 44 16 8 2 6 6 457 4 8 88 2 9 20 10 0 0 10 0 25 11 0 27 1 8 27 18 8 125 11 10 382 13 10 14 0 0 255 9 0 2 0 0 6 5 0 333 15 1 19 0 11 133 2 10 187 6 7 11 6 1 9 0 0 1,183 8 8 13 12 6 0 15 0 19 8 4 35 13 0 2 6 6 308 4 5 50 6 0 22" 15 2 9 3 8 I49' 0 3

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Table No. 21— continued. Table showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1909— continued.

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Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Poranui (loop on Christchurch - Little River line) Leeston-Killinchy Bealey Flat Hilton-Wahipai Timaru-Albury (metallic circuit) ... Timaru (metallic circuit)... Timaru-Orari ... Timaru-Mawaro Pleasant Point - Kerry town Fairlie-Pusey ... Fairlie - Cattle Valley ... Lake Pukaki - Hermitage Kurow - Kowhatu ... .... Kurow - Ash wick Flat ... Kurow - Rocky Point Oamaru-Elderslie Duntroon-Otekaieke Hakataramea - Rocky Point Totaratahi-Reidston Otematata Alma Bureau ... Dunedin-Berwick (metallic circuit) Dunedin-Seacliff Dunedin-Gore ... Dunedin-Warrington Milton-Moanariri Naseby-Ranfurly N aseby-Ky eburn Lauder-Beck's... Patearoa-Paerua Outram-Clark's Waipori Falls ... Middlemarch-Sutton Rae's Junction-Edievale Lawrence-Waitahuna Dunrobin - Moa Flat Milton-Table Hill Balclutha-Clinton Nuggets-Tirohanga Owaka-Pounawea Invercargill-Otautau (metallic circuit) Inyercargill-Waimahaka Waianiwa-Otahuti Colac Bay - Centre Island Orepuki-Mangarua Te Tua (Orepuki line) ... Tuatapere - Puysegur Point Puysegur - Te Oneroa Papatotara Fairfax - Isla Bank Druuimond-Otautau Wairoto Bureau Winton-Benmore Winton - Upper South Hillend Riverton-Otautau Clifden-Lillburn Green Hills - Dog Island Woodlands - Morton Mains Invercargill-Wyndham ... Oware (cut in Wyndham-Mimihau line) Wyndham-Mimihau Te Hiwi (cut in Wyndham-Mimihau line) ... Edendale - Seaward Downs £ s. d. £ s. d. 4 5 6 £ S. d. 4 5 6 78 18 0 0 7 6 0 15 0 156 13 6 19 8 8 98 6 8 0 7 6 0 15 0 547 17 10 124 19 4 16 16 4 26 6 11 33 18 10 2 3 9 138 0 1 1,240 11 6 1 6 5 181 18 3 13 2 2 21 4 11 55 3 5 386 6 3 3 12 6 7 6 8 0 11 6 282 16 6 72 2 2 35 12 4 210 9 2 68 17 6 51 13 10 91 17 7 46 11 4 284 9 0 498 7 7 6 3 10 51 8 7 172 12 8 80 8 2 188 15 8 113 9 3 18 19 4 5 12 72 16 1 543 2 5 103 0 5 229 16 0 139 5 3 7 18 6 5 0 4 3,569 17 5 164 2 4 3 2 2 114 14 7 368 9 3 0 8 7 83 1 6 20 0 5 71 9 2 139 0 6 384 2 0 85 14 1 634 9 4 5 8 4 169 16 4 5 0 4 128 7 11 391 4 4 124 19 4 16 16 4 21 4 6 18 19 8 • 5 2 5 14 19 2 2 3 9 134 9 4 950 7 10 0 18 1 66 13 1 3 10 9 290 3 8 0 8 4 115 5 2 13 2 2 21 4 11 30 2 9 302 4 0 3 8 0 7 6 8 0 11 6 161 1 8 72 2 2 35 12 4 85 18 2 25 0 8 84 2 3 0 4 6 121 14 10 124 11 0 68 17 6 51 13 10 9 9 4 26 16 7 230 9 5 482 11 5 1 16 6 51 8 7 142 8 7 40 16 8 188 18 6 81 11 0 15 2 4 10 0 55 4 9 416 19 5 82 8 3 19 14 9 53 19 7 15 16 2 4 7 4 30 4 1 39 11 6 0 2 2 31 is 3 3 17 0 4 12 17 11 4 126 3 0 103 0 5 56 6 0 3 0 10 5 18 10 5 0 4 76 16 2 38 11 5 173 10 0 136 4 5 1 19 8 3,493 1 3 125 10 11 3 2 2 78 4 5 358 9 3 36 10 2 46 4 6 0 8 7 36 17 0 20 0 5 53 1 3 18 7 11 139 0 6 343 8 9 33 19 0 165 10 9 40 13 3 51 15 1 468 18 7 5 8 4 37 12 8 5 0 4 0 17 2 132 3 8 127 10 9

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Table No. 21— continued. Table showing the Expenditure on, and the Cost of, Telegraph Construction during the Financial Year ended 31st March, 1909— continued.

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Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Coat during the Year. ttversdale-Waikaia liversdale-Waiporamu ... liversdale-Kaweku 'ika Bureau rlenorchy-Paradise £ s. d. 41 1 4 52 3 8 110 13 11 0 5 0 20 5 0 £ s. d. 1 12 9 22 13 7 £ s. d. 42 14 1 74 17 3 110 13 11 5 12 6 30 5 3 5 7 6 10 0 3 'urchase of material 70,604 92,428 5 8 7 7 81,901 7 10 152,505 13 5 'otal expenditure, 1908-9 163,032 14 2 'otal expenditure to 31st March, 1908 1,479,736 0 0 'otal expenditure out of Public Works. Fund to 31st March, 1909 Total cost of lines during 1908-9 '£1,642,768 14 2 £152,505 13 5

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Table No. 22. Table showing the Capital Cost, Working-expenses, and Revenue of the Telephone Exchanges, Year by Year, from the Date of their Establishment.

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__. ai _1 Capite Instrument Labou Superint nl Cost for ts, Wire, Poles, ir, Freight, eudence, &c. Working-expenses. Year. Balance of Revenue OTer Workingexpenses. Annual Bate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. a a Z; ° Average Cost of each Connection. Salaries and Allowances of Clerks, &c. Materials and Linemen. * Wear-and-tear, &c. Rent, Fuel, Light, Papor, Printing, Binding, &c. Total. Total for all Connections. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 .. .. 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 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 5,747 5,787 6,203 7,150 8,210 9,260 10,633 12,105 14,423 15,333 17,403 23,881 26,833 £ s. d. 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 23 7 4 24 11 6 24 5 3 22 14 1 21 9 7 20 18 0 20 2 6 19 19 8 21 19 7 23 13 8 24 2 2 21 5 9 22 1 1 £ s. d. 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 1 134,299 11 4 142,218 11 8 150,490 18 9 162,333 1 2 176,349 1 8 193,511 6 2 213,966 10 8 241,903 2 6 295,029 7 2 363,192 6 9 420,088 12 1 508,408 7 8 591,760 0 7 £ s. d. 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 4 2 18,571 7 8 19,155 11 5 21,771 4 4 21,552 12 10 25,933 12 9 29,248 19 5 36,422 6 8 39,718 7 7 43,303 2 10 49,117 0 8 55,542 4 9 62,151 8 11 71,028 6 3 79,061 7 4 89,542 1 5 100,814 1 3 116,852 13 10 131,249 0 7 £ s. d. £ s. d. 285 0 0 275 0 0 595 0 0 595 0 0 695 0 0 770 0 0 1,770 0 0 1,590 0 0 2,849 1 3 1,704 0 0 2,873 0 0 1,580 10 0 3,119 10 0 2,252 0 0 3,315 10 0 2,249 7 0 3,790 0 0 2,206 10 0 4,192 0 0 2,249 18 5 4,630 0 0 2,345 2 9 7,405 0 0 2,695 19 10 7,720 0 0 3,313 1 1 9,285 0 0 4,253 11 4 9,686 0 10 5,303 11 9 12,306 9 7 7,398 0 10 14,181 18 0 11,834 2 11 15,030 7 1 16,190 4 0 15,710 13 2 20,847 13 6 16,304 6 3 18,225 18 9 18,448 3 5 20,570 0 9 20,885 13 3 22,078 4 11 23,359 8 3 22,507 9 10 25,121 16 1 26,781 19 6 26,506 16 5 22,576 6 8 32,913 16 8 26,145 3 4 38,107 12 8 36,813 9 6 47,224 7 0 '32,995 2 4 £ 8. d. 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 13,429 19 1 7,110 18 7 7,524 10 11 8,116 13 0 8,817 9 0 9,675 11 9 10,698 6 6 12,095 3 1 14,751 9 4 18,159 12 4 21,004 8 7 25,420 8 5 29,588 0 0 £ s. d. 150 0 0 300 0 0 350 0 0 475 0 0 700 0 0 320 0 0 * 330 0 0 335 0 0 375 0 0 394 3 9 393 1 6 464 6 2 741 18 9 817 19 5 1,952 8 3 1,856 13 2 1,881 11 11 1,861 2 3 1,892 10 8 2,000 15 10 2,078 12 10 2,614 15 0 2,986 3 8 4,447 18 4 5,270 0 9 6,162 18 1 6,902 8 6 7,264 18 5 £ a. d. 963 0 0 2,317 0 0 3,375 0 0 6,181 0 0 8,985 0 5 8,842 2 2 10,642 4 6 11,244 6 2 12,194 10 1 13,265 10 7 15,026 12 2 19,734 1 1 22,217 10 2 26,041 1 9 29,452 17 3 34,991 2 8 35,008 11 5 40,606 4 3 46,567 10 4 45,348 9 10 50,772 8 9 56,276 19 8 60,948 4 10 71,103 3 3 72,512 16 2 86,226 6 8 107,243 19 1 117,072 7 9 £ s. d. 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 -5,742 3 3 1,413 15 3 -887 16 8 -3,264 7 6 3.768 10 10 4.769 16 0 5,874 9 3 10,080 1 5 7,958 4 1 17,029 5 3 14,587 14 7 9,608 14 9 14,176 12 10 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. Loss. 0-99 Loss. Loss. 214 2-46 2-75 4-17 2-69 4-69 3 47 1-89 2-40 * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-and-tear, and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1897-98 and following years, in which only 5 per cent, for debenture capital is included.

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Table No. 23. Table showing the Number of Connections at each Telephone Exchange.

matt Ooti of Paper— Preparation (not given); printing (2,100 copies), £78 12s. 6d.

By Authority : John Mackat, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9o9.

Price Is. 3d.]

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Number of connections on 31st March, Number of connections on 31st March, Exchange. Exchange. 1909. ! 1908. 1909. 1908. Ashbur ton Auckland Cambridge... Devonport Helensville Morrinsville Onehunga... Takapuna ... Te Awamutu Te Kuiti ... Blenheim Kaikoura ... Picton Christchurch Akaroa Amberley ... Cust Doyleston ... Duvauchelle Kaiapoi Leeston Lincoln Little River Lyttelton ... Methven ... New Brighton Rakaia Rangiora ... Southbridge Sumner Dannevirke ... Dunedin Balclutha ... Clinton Heriot Kaitangata Milton Mosgiel Palmerston Port Chalmers Tapanui ... Waikouaiti Feilding Apiti Kimbolton... Kiwitea Rongotea ... Sanson Gisborne Greymouth ... Reef ton Hamilton Hawera Eltham Kaponga ... Manaia Otakeho ... Patea Hokitika Kumara ... Ross Invercargill ... Balfour Bluff Edendale ... Gore Lumsden ... Mataura ... Orepuki ... ... ... I 218 3,55(1 67 53 15 37 31 19 40 28 298 26 80 3,260 36 9 15 11 19 42 17 12 14 19 27 3 32 30 9 20 209 2,966 46 10 9 22 39 34 30 34 19 10 258 13 25 12 22 5 722 346 69 247 215 63 16 24 6 49 150 28 22 695 8 65 14 182 24 16 8 197 3,184 61 48 '"28 "261 '"70 2,978 41 "l5 11 16 41 17 10 16 19 '"27 8 24 184 2,713 43 10 "*20 38 30 28 34 19 9 244 "21 "as 5 626 295 69 178 202 58 16 26 "46 139 23 18 635 8 63 14 175 25 15 Invercargill— continued. Otautau Riversdale... Riverton ... Waikaka ... Winton Woodlands Wyndham... Lawrence Levin Masterton Alfredton ... Carterton ... Eketahuna Featherston Grey town North Martinborough Pongaroa ... Napier Hastings ... Mohaka Waipawa ... Waipukurau Wairoa Weber Nelson New Plymouth Inglewood... Opunake ... Waitara ... 47 30 .30 9 47 .<; 30 51 68 447 19 94 78 67 58 73 19 804 516 18 79 50 141 20 427 422 43 34 40 296 19 8 127 49 619 22 73 12 160 161 132 43 59 44 59 92 469 32 85 15 8 32 91 743 26 30 24 131 7 82 28 4,115 36 6 27 188 141 35 26 28 "45 6 22 48 56 387 18 86 76' 51 44 71 726 463 "64 49 124 17 382 403 36 35 31 284 " 8 123 45 580 25 66 12 146 146 113 "56 "54 84 448 22 83 15 8 32 83 681 21 26 116 5 53 23 3,781 5 'l59 125 Oamaru Kurow Ngapara ... Pahiatua Woodville ... Palmerston North Ashhurst ... Foxton Longburn ... Rotorua Stratford Thames Opotiki Paeroa Tauranga ... Te Aroha ... Waihi Timaru Fairlie Geraldine ... St. Andrew's Studholme Junction Temuka Waimate ... Wanganui Bull's Hunterville Mangaweka Marton Okaiawa Taihape Waveriey ... Wellington ... Hutt Johnsonville Shannon ... Westport Whangarei ... Totals 26,833 23,881