POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT (REPORT OF THE) FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1913 Session I, F-01

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1913. NEW ZEALAND.

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT (REPORT OF THE) FOR THE YEAR 1912-13.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly by Command of Hit Excellency.

General Post Office, Wellington, 22nd July, 1913. Mv Lord. — I have the honour to submit to Your Excellency the Report of the Post and Telegraph Department fur the pear 1**12 13, and in doing so to offer the following remarks:— The business of the Department has been satisfactory, the excess of receipts over expenditure bein_r no less than £98,554. The most outstanding feature of the year's worthas been the extension of the radio-telegraphic system. Two low-power stations at Wellington and Auckland respectively are in successful operation, and have proved of great convenience, particularly in connection with the shipping. One high-power station at Awanui and another at Awarua are completed, and a low-power station at Chatham Islands is approaching completion. Tt is confidently anticipated that these stations will meet the requirements of navigation. A tender fur automatic-telephone exchanges has just, been accepted. The expenditure will be considerable, but the ultimate saving in working-expenses and fthe increased convenience to the public should compensate for the additional outlay. A trunk telephone-wire for bureau communications between Wellington and Auckland has been erected, with the most satisfactory results. There has been a marked increase in the number of paid telegrams, whilst the number of bureau messages has I by over 16 per cent. The system of deferred cable messages, introduced at the beginning of 1912, has been largely availed of. as have also week-end cable messages to the United Kingdom. Each of these innovations seems to have me1 a public want. In November. 1912, the business of the Department in Wellington was transferred to the new General Post Office. The recently erected chief post-office building in Auckland was also brought into use in the same month. During the year, Mr. D. Robertson. I.S.O., who assumed the position of Secretary to the Department in 1907. was appointed Public Service Commissioner. Matters of detail will be found at length in the report and tables which follow. T have the honour to be. My Lord, Your obedient servant, R. Hkaton Rhodes, Postmaster-General. His Excellency the Governor, Wellington. 1—F. 1.

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Receipts and Payments. The receipt* and payments of the Department for the financial year 1912-13 are shown in the following table: —

The total receipts exceeded those of 1911-12 by £80,115 9s. 9sd. Postal matter delivered in New Zealand, including that received from abroad, during the year reached a total of 108,143,256 letters, 6,058,962 post-cards, 54,068,196 other articles, and 1,735,567 parcels. 666,425 money-orders, for £3,281,349 L4s. 6d., were issued, and 536,130. tor £2,870,523 la. Bd., paid. The increase in the number of orders issued as compared with last year was 58,661. During the year 1,970,643 postal notes, of the value of £636,473 os. 6d., were sold, being an increase of 8-18 per cent, in number and 10-69 in amount as compared with the preceding year. The Dumber of British postal orders sold increased from 88,528, valued a< £45,687 10s. 6d., to 100,661, for £51,651 19s. 7d., and 24,405 orders, for £15,681 Is. (id., were paid, as against 23,429, for £15,458 18s. 6d., paid during the previous year. The savings-bank deposits (£11,725,182 His. 5d.) exceeded the withdrawals (£11,449,711 3s. 7d.) by £275,471 12s. 10d. There has been added £51 1,598 18s. Bd. as interest, making a total increase of £787,070 lls. 6d., and bringing the whole amount at credit up to £16,330,257 Bs. 2d., a sum which equals £14 16s. 3d. per head of the population. The total number of telegrams forwarded was 9,944,272, an increase of 881,139, or 9-72 per cent., over the business of the previous year. The number of bureau communications continues to show a marked increase, being 2,935,912, as against 2,360,914. The amount expended on telegraph-extension was £251,375, with liabilities amounting to £171,297 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, 1913, there were 12,508* miles of telegraph-line and 41,892 miles of wire. The length of submarine cables within the Dominion was 374 knots. The number of telephone-exchange connections still continues to rapidly increase.

Statement showing Receipts and Payments of the Post and Telegraph Department for the Ten Years ended 31st March, 1913, and for the Years 1881-82, 1891-92 and 1901-2.

[tem. Postal. Telegraph. Total. Receipts, Stamps for postage Money-order and postal-note commission Money-order commission reoeived from foreign offices Private box and bag fees Miscellaneous receipts Paid telegrams Telephone exohanges 16 s. d. 591,921 11 8 36,888 6 11 811 16 1 , 13,736 0 1 J 12,334 12 :>J £ -. a. £ s. d. 591,921 11 8 25,833 6 11 811 16 1 13,736 0 1 20,325 13 84 313,960 5 1 201,237 7 3 7,991 1 3 818, $160 5 1 201,237 7 8 TotaU 644,637 7 2 J 523,188 18 7 1,167,826 0 9JPay>nents. Salaries (classified offioers) Salaries (country Postmasters and telephonists, and contributions to Railway Department) Conveyance of mails by sea Conveyance of inland mails Conveyance of mails by railway Money-order commission credited to foreign offices Maintenance of telegraph and telephone-lines Miscellaneous £ s. d. i 243,044 3 8 20,041 0 0 J- r. d. 848,884 S 4 83,38) 0 0 £ s. d. 591,378 9 0 j>2.922 0 0 85,787 11 5 72,852 4 6 62,677 3 2 2,500 3 10 85,787 11 5 72,852 4 6 62,677 3 2 2,500 3 10 64,011 3 9 137,143 12 8 72,273 7 9 i 559,775 14 4 84,861 12 10J 64,011 8 9 64.870 4 6 Balance of receipts over payments ;■)(): 1. i'»; 1H 7 18,693 0 0 1,069,272 7 11 98,553 12 10J Totals 644,637 7 2£ 523,188 13 7 1,167,826 0 94

D ~ 1 -> ~_ .. _ _. i T> _ — — - — a. Year. Payments. *£*£«*£»* Payments. Balance of Receipts over Payments. 1881-1882 £ a. d. £ s. d. £ i. d. 234,529 8 0 233,291 10 4 1,237 17 8 1891-1892 1901-1902 1891-1892 1901-1902 320,058 J 3 268,343 1 1 51,715 0 2 488,573 1 11$ 465,756 9 6 22,816 12 6$ 1903-1904 1904-1905 1905-1906 1906-1907 1907-1908 1908-1909 1909-1910 1910-1911 1911-1912 1912-1913 580,771 4 -H : o26,716 14 5 54,024 10 0$ 633,305 12 7$ .559,921 1 5 73,384 11 2$ 684.878 11 2 -578,726 11 7 106,151 19 7 746,249 L6 0$ 619,121 0 9 127,128 15 3$ 822,639 8 9$ 709,024 16 2 113,614 12 74 918,994 17 2$ 807,652 9 10 106,342 7 4$ 961,500 10 2$ 858,059 15 1- 103,440 15 1$ ... 1,037,265 17 3 914,069 7 10 123,196 9 5" ... 1,087,710 11 0 988,911 12 6 98,798 18 6 ... 1,167,826 0 9$ 1,069,272 7 11 98,553 12 10$ Total for ten years ... ... ... ... £1,004,636 12 0$

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Staff. Ccrmparativt Return of Officers of the Post and Telegraph Department for the Years ended 31st March, 1912, and 31st March, 1913. The total number of officers on the staff on the 31st March, 1912 and 1913, was as under:— 3lBt March, 31st Maroh, 1912. 1918. Postmaster-General ... ... .. ... 1 1 Classified staff, — First Division ... ... ... ... ... 3 o Clerical Division ... ... ... ... ...2,791 2,262General Division ... ... ... ... ... I o 100 ~ nc . A niu i r 2.122 3,094 Telegraph message-boys ... ... ... ...J Total, classified stafl ... ... ... 4,917 5,362 Kmployees not on permanent staff,— Country Postmasters and Postmistresses ... ... 2,178 2,219 Nightwatchmen ... ... ... ... ... 2 5 Mail-cart drivers ... .. ... ... ... 4 Postmasters and telegraphists or telephonists who are Railway officers ... ... ... ... 157 155 Total ... ... ... ... ... 7,258 7,741 Health o* Staff, The following table gives the average absence of officers on sick-leave : —• Numbers Average Absence T'^nTT comprised. per Sick Office, ""J^^"' Days. Days. Meu ... ... ... 4,59b 11-09 4-38 Women ... ... ... 764 1759 1034 Thirteen officers died during the year. Postmastkr-Genkral. The Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes assumed office as Postmaster-Genera] on the lOth Inly, 1912. Personal. The decoration of the Imperial Service Order was conferred on Mr, I). Robertson, late Secretary of the Department, in June, 1912. Mr. Robertson, who assumed the position of Secretary of the Department in 1907, having been appointed Commissioner under the Public Service Act, 1912, severed his connection with the Postal and Telegraph service as from the Ist January, 1913. Mr. W. R. Morris was appointed Secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department on the Ist January, 1913, vice Mr. D. Robertson. On the same date .Messrs. V. V. Waters and G. B. Dall were appointed Assistant Secretaries : Mr. D. Miller, Chief Inspector of Post-offices; and Mr. J. C. Williamson, Chief Clerk. Mr. W. St. G. Douglas, Chief Postmaster, Dunedin; Mr. J. W. G&nnaway, Telegraph Engineer, Christchurch; Mr. W. -J. Chancy, Chief Postmaster. Napier; Mr. H. W. Capper, Chief Postmaster. Tiniam ; Mr. E. C. Gannaway, Assistant Postmaster. Wellington: Mr. J. H. Stevens, Assistant Inspector of Post-offices : Mr. B. N. Martin, Officer in Charge i>l the Telegraph-office, Christchurch ; and Mr. 11. Logic, Chief Postmaster, Thames, retired on pension during the year, after long and faithful service. Mr. J. K. Logan, 1.5.0., who retire! on pension on the Ist January, 1911, after over forty-five years' service, during the last seventeen years of which he filled the position of Superintendent of Electric Lines, died on the Bth November, 1912, while travelling abroad. Classification . By virtue of an Order in Council of the 7th October, 1912, persons of exceptional skill in the mechanical arts who have proved their qualifications to the satisfaction of the Minister may b» appointed to the Non-clerical Division at a higher age than thirty-five years. By Order in Council of the 18th November, 1912, provision was made for any officer who acts in a higher position at his own station for more than three consecutive months to be paid the difference between his salary and the minimum of the class above that in which he is placed. If he is in receipt of a higher salary than such minimum he may be paid an allowance at the rate of £10 per annum while so acting. Provision was also made for the payment of £10 per annum, pending promotion to a higher class, to any officer of the Seventh Class who has passed the Civil Service Senior Examination or the Senior Technical Examination, or any equivalent examination, and has been in receipt of the maximum salary of the class for one year.

■ A number of these officers was included in "he figures tor tkie Clerical Division iv previous year.

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Appeal Board. Mr.JH. S. Wardell, a non-elective member of the departmental Board of Appeal, died on the 6th May, 1912. Mr. R. McNab was appointed in his place. . The Board sat on the Ist July, 1912. Ten appeals were considered. In three cases the Board confirmed the action of the Department, which was in accordance with regulations. In four cases the appeals failed. In one case the Board reported that the appeal had not been made within the time prescribed by Regulation 19, but strongly recommended the officers promotion. One appeal was withdrawn, the officer having been promoted. One appeal was dismissed under Regulation 19. The Board sat from the Bth to the 10th March, 1913. Twenty-one appeals were considered. In one case the Board recommended that, in consideration of the arduous and important work performed by the officer, his salary be raised to that paid in corresponding positions. As the Board's recommendation could not be gives effect to under the Department's regulations, it was forwarded for the consideration of the Public Service Commissioner. In two cases the Board had no recommendation to make, but expressed the opinion that one of the officers should receive promotion at the earliest opportunity. In one case the Board recommended the payment of £6 as a special bonus. In view, however, of a subsequent adjustment of the officer's salary the bonus was not payable. One appeal was not proceeded with, -as the officer had been promoted and liis seniority preserved. In one case the Board had no recommendation to make. Five appeals were not inquired into by the Board, as they referred to action taken in 1908 and 1909. In ten cases the Board recommended that an adequate adjustment of salary and status be made to preserve the officers' relative seniority in the Classification List. The Board again sat from the 27th to the 29th .March, 1913. Eighteen appeals were considered. In nine of these the Board had no recommendation to make. In five appeals it was recommended that the cases of the officers who had suffered by the operation of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1907, and the annual classification made thereunder, be dealt with by the Department. The necessary adjustments have been made. In one case the Board could net sustain the appeal. In another the Board recommended that the opinion of the Crown Law Officer be taken. The opinion confirmed the decision of the Department. The Board upheld one appeal, and recommended that the officer be promoted from the Ist April, 1912. This was done. In a further case the Board considered that the officer should be given an opportunity of proving nis fitness for another position. This was arranged. It also recommended that when the officer's promotion took place it should, if possible, be ante-dated to 31st March, 1913. The recommendation was forwarded to the Public Service Commissioner. The Departmental Appeal Board ceased to exist with the coming into operation of the Public Service Act, 1912. Officers were called upon to elect representatives to the Public Service Appeal Board, and Messrs. F. M. Scully and A. Mill were elected to represent the Postal and Telegraph Branches of the Service, respectively, on the new Board. Instruction Classes for Officers. The special course of instruction instituted by the Professor of Physics at Victoria College for officers of the Engineering Branch of the Department commenced on the 27th March, 1913. The Departniein granted a sum to the College for the purchase of apparatus for use in tuition in telegraphy and telephony. The correspondence classes inaugurated in 1910 for the tuition of officers of the Department in technical telegraphy and telephony, and in subjects of the Civil Service Senior and Junior Examinations and the Sixth Standard, were continued during 1912. The total number of students for the year was 319, of whom 130 were technical students. The results of the year's work were most satisfactory. Examinations. The principle of requiring officers of the Department to pass examinations was first dealt with in the Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890, which provided that the Governor in Council might make regulations " prescribing the times and places at which examination of candidates [for employment] shall be held and the subjects of examination upon entrance or on promotion, also for the conduct of such examinations and the appointment and remuneration of examiners," Regulations were made under the authority of this Act by Older in Council dated the 22nd January, 1891, prescribing the examination for admission to the Department and the senior examination for officers before being eligible for promotion above the Fifth Class, of which the maximum salary at ithe time was £250. Officers of at least ten years' service before the passing of the Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890, were exempted from the necessity of passing the senior examination. Efficiency tests, however, were authorized in 1906, in which year it was provided by the Post Office Act Amendment Act that the Governor might make regulations " prescribing a test of efficiency for officers in the Sixth Class before such officers may receive increments beyond —(a) One hundred and fifty pounds; and (b) one hundred and eighty pounds." An Order in Council made on the 29th July, 1907, defined efficiency examinations for cadets before being promoted, and for officers in the Sixth Class before receiving increments above £150 and above £180. By the Act of 1907 the ■Sixth Class examinations were altered to apply to increments above £165 and £200. By Order in Council dated the 26th November, 1910, the efficiency test at £200 was changed from a written examination to an oral one, and a written test was required for promotion beyond the Seventh Class. At the same time questions on the Post and Telegraph Act were included in written examinations. ■At the beginning of 1913 examinations were in force for officers generally. For postal

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officers the tests were based on the post.il rules and regulations, and for telegraph officers the tests were partly on the telegraph rules and regulations and partly technical. In March, 1913, the questions on the Posi Act and the technical examination of telegraph officers before promotion above the Seventh Class were abolished. Prom the Is! April, lUI3, examinations are conducted under the authority of the Public Service Commissioner. Departmental Rules. The rules and regulations for the guidance of officers were reissued during the year. Record System, General I'o.st Office. On the 20th March. 1913, a ih-u system of recording official papers was introduced in the General Poet Office. A feature of the system is that the whole "I the recording is performed in one operation on the typewriter. Gray .Memorial Prize. The committee of adjudication in connection with the Gray Memorial Prizes made their award* fin the years 1910 and 1911 on the 23rd July, 1912. and awarded gold medals to Messrs. J. G. Rule, Tanner, and Harrison. Trade of Umpire Commission. At the request of the Trade Commission, evidence was furnished by the Department as to the possibility of a reduction in the cable rate to the United Kingdom from 3s. to 25. ; also as to existing foreign mail-services, and growth of savings-bank business. Control of Pensions Department. The Pensions Department was removed from the control of the Pi»l and Telegraph Department mi the Ist Auuiist. l!tl2. I'k.nny Postage. As from the 21st February, I!H2. French Oceania adopted the letter-postage rate of Id. per ourice on letters from New Zealand and Id. per three-quarters of an ounce on letters in the opposite direction. Papua introduced a rate of Id. per half-ounce on letters to any part of the British Empire on the Ist November, 1012, and New Hebrides adopted a rale of Id. per ounce on similar correspondence on the 10th December. L 912. The United States Posi Office was again urged to reduce the minimum postage for a letter from that country to New Zealand from 5 to 2 cents, and reminded thai for seven years the initial letter-rate from New Zealand to that country has been Id. per ounce, but the reply to the com munication was unfavourable. The Imperial penny-postage system now embraces practically the whole of the British Empire the only exception being Pitcairn Island. Newspaper Postage. A proposal has been made by the Department to the Imperial Posi Office thai New Zealand printed newspapers be passed in the United Kingdom at the newspapei rate of postage. Later telegraphic Press news announces thai legislation t<; enable colonial newspapers to be reposted in Great Britain at the same rate as British newspapers has been introduced l>v the Postmaster-General in the House of Commons. Parcel-post. 1,623,830 parcels were posted in the Dominion during I!tl2. as against 1,613,010 in 1911. From the Ist January, 1913, the inland parcel rates were reduced to 3d. for the first pound and lid. for each succeeding pound up to II II). The introduction of the lower rate has resulted in a large increase of business. A system of return receipts for inland parcels was inaugurated on the same date. Wicker-and-eanvas bag-hampers for the conveyance of parcels by post were brought into use, and have been found to lie very suitable and convenient for the work. They are mailer than the Ordinary hampers, and more easily handled. On the Bth .July, 1912, a trial system of transmission of fish liv post was inaugurated between Dunedin and any office which could be reached within ten hours. The system, though m>l supported to the extent anticipated, is being given a further trial. A scheme for the carriage of fruit by post was inaugurated on the Ist January, 1913, by this Department in con junction with the Railway Department. Only once have parcel-mails been .seriously delayed. Owing to the accumulation of parcels during the dock strike in London, the parcel mail received by the s.s. " Turakma " on trie 24th August, 1912, comprised some (5.000 parcels. Post Office. During 1912 the Assistant Inspectors of Post-offices visited 1,960 offices. They also relieved Chief Postmasters in several districts, and were engaged in several investigations of a special nature. 446 non-permanent offices were inspected by permanent Postmasters in their vicinity. Seventy-seven post-offices were established (of these, 10 were reopened offices) and. 3y closed. The number of post-offices open at the end of the year was 2,350. . . . .

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The names of 14 offices were changed to meet altered circumstances or to agree more nearly with local designations. The number of articles delivered in the Dominion, including those received from places beyond, during the year 1912, as compared with the number in 1911, was as under :— 1912. 1911. Increase. Decrease. Letters and letter-cards.. 108,143,256 106,143,040 2,000,216 Post-cards .. .. 6,058,962 6,829,563 .. 770.601 Other articles .. .. 54,068,196 53,555,632 512,564 168,270,414 166.528,235 2,512,780 Parcels .. .. 1,735,567 1,714,369 21,198 The letters and letter-cards increased 1-88, post-cards decreased 11-28, other articles increased 0-96, and parcels 1-24 per cent. The decrease in the number of post-cards may lit- accounted for by the continued decline in popularity of the pictorial post-card. In 1911 letters and letter-cards increased s'Bo, post-cards decreased 13-50, other articles increased 6-47 per cent. The average number of letters and letter-cards posted per head of population was estimated at 102-06. The average in 11)11 was 97-86. The correspondence of 36 persons or Guns was 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. Letters addressed to prohibited persons or firms withheld from delivery during the year numbered 1,527. Prohibition was withdrawn in respect of five persons or firms. Nineteen newspapers were registered for transmission by post, and 21 were removed from the register. The declared value of parcels received from places outside the Dominion in 1912 was £435,594, as against £374,294 in 1911. The Customs duty collected amounted to £74,170 Bs. 7d. The declared value of parcels despatched to places beyond the Dominion was £39.432, as against. £39,521 in 1911. Six new letter-carriers' deliveries were established. Deliveries were extended in 43 and increased in frequency in 6 places. As from the Ist January, 1913, undeliverable inland printed matter prepaid Jd., bearing a request for its return to the sender, is returned and charged id. postage. Undeliverable printed matter prepaid |d. posted outside the Dominion and bearing a request for its return to an address in New Zealand is similarly disposed of and surcharged. The Secretary of the General Post Office, London, was informed on the 26th May, 1913, that this Dominion would support the scheme to be advocated by bhe Imperial Postmaster-General at the next Postal Union Congress for raising the limit of weight for " printed papers from ito 3 kilogrammes in the case of packets containing literature for the blind, and for fixing bhe postage at ordinary rates up to 500 grammes, and above that weight at 50 centimes irrespective of weight. During the past year 16 automatic stamp-vending machines have been installed. A machine designed to register letters automatically at any hour was installed at Christchurch on ihe 23rd September, 1912. While being date-stamped in the Auckland Chief Post-offici the 25th July, liil2. a packet broke open, and was found to contain bank-notes to the value of £200, wrapped in brown paper, unsealed and unfastened. Postage-stamps. 2,401) halfpenny stamps overprinted "Victoria Land in black type across the upper half of the stamps were issued to the late Captain I!. l'\ Scott. C.V.0., R.N.. leader of the British Antarctic Expedition, as Postmaster of Victoria Land. Special stamps for the use of the Government Life Insurance Department were reintroduced from the Ist January, 1913. The denominations are £d., 1d.,-2d., 3d., and 6d. Designs for the King George postage-stamps have been prepared, and sent to London for the engraving of dies. The following are the denominations proposed to be issued : id., l|d., 2d., 2£d... 3d., 4d., 4£d., 6d., 7|d., 9d., and Is. The design of the penny stamp will not be changed. It is expected that the new issue will be ready for sale Towards rhe end of the year. The following postage, postage-due, and duty stamps, and postal stationery will be demonetized as from the 3lst December, 1913, but may be exchanged at any post-office for stamps or stamped material to an equal value, up to the 31st December, 1914 : All postage and revenue stamps bearing a portrait of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria ; all envelopes embossed with postage duty of Id. and 2d., and bearing Her late Majesty's portrait ; all registered-letter envelopes, excepting the small size : imprinted with registration duty of 3d. and bearing Her late Majesty's portrait : all post-cards, letter cards, and newspaper-wrappers bearing Her late Majesty's portrait: all stamps of the Christchurch Exhibition commemorative series ; all the first issue of postage-due stamps. \t\.. Id., and 2d., having only the denomination printed in red : all Law Court fee stamps of whatever denomination bearing the words " Law Courts, New Zealand " ; all Land and Deeds tee stamps of whatever denomination bearing the words " Land and Deeds Stamp, New Zealand." The issue of reply-paid post-cards ceased from the Bth October, 1912, there having been practically no demand for them

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Ocean Mail-services. San Francisco Service. The Wellington Rarotonga - Tahiti San Francisco service has been regularly performed during the last year, and time-table dates have been well maintained. Several delays occurred in the delivery of the mail from New Zealand in the United Kingdom, principally due to connection being made with slow vessels on the Atlantic coast. The contract expires in October this year, and the question of renewing the service is under consideration. The maximum, minimum, and average periods within which the mails were delivered ;it and from London and New Zealand by the various ocean mail-services are given in Table 15. Vancouver Service. The contract for the Auckland-Suva-Honolulu-Vancouver service has been satisfactorily performed during the past year, the time-table dates being well observed. The contractors placed the new steamer "Niagara," of 13,500 tons, fitted with .ill the latest improvements, in the service. She began her maiden voyage From Auckland on the lOth May this pear, replacing the " Zealandia." Suez Seme/ , . The P. and 0. steamers resumed making calls regularly every four weeks at Auckland during the southern summer. On six occasions the steamers from Wellington failed to connect with the outward English mail at Sydney. By a fire on tin , 8.8. " Makura," which left Sydney on the 7th April, 1913, tor Auckland, 2 bags of newspapers and I bag of letters were destroyed, and 12 bags of newspapers damaged. Owing to a fire on B mail train near Brisbane, several bags of mail from Dunedin and Christchuroh to Brisbane were, burnt. A parcel mail. Wellington to Song Kong, was also badly damaged. Payments on Account i>l the Suez Mail-service during the Year 1912- 13. Payment to Peninsular and Oriental and Orient lines . . . . . . 10,784 Transit-charges across Australia and Europe .. .. .. 6,583 Mail-service to Australia .. .. .. .. .. .. 15.000* £32.367 Atlantic Service, &c. An apparently serious bid for an Imperial mail-service on the Atlantic, was made in December. 1912, by a group of persons incorporated by special Act of tho Parliament of Canada under the name of " The Imperial Sle.miship Company." The s.s. " Turakina," which left Wellington for London on the Bth February, 1913, when at Rio de Janeiro on 4th .March, was found to he on fire. The vessel was beached. The mails were landed safely and taken on by the liner " Blucher." The boat in which the mails at Rarotonga were being carried for shipment by the s.s " Talune " (Hi the 28th January. 1913, was overturned in the surf. The mails were recovered undamaged and sent forward by the next steamer. 1 ni,.\ nii Mail-services The inland mail-services were relet by contract as from the beginning of this year for a triennial period. Several new rural services were established. In some cases arrangements were made for services to be performed by a departmental officer mounted on a motor-cycle. Several tenders were accepted for the carriage of mails by motor-car, and greatly improved services have resulted therefrom. During the year the horses and plant used in the conveyance of mails in Wellington City were replaced by motor lonics and cycles. The extension of the East Coast Alain Trunk Railway enabled mails to be conveyed thrice weekly by rail as far as Otoko from the Ist January, 1913. The driver of the mail-coach between Palmerston North and Rongotea was. unfortunately, killed by an accident, whereby his coach was upset, on the 10th May. 1913. Heavy floods in the Dunedin. Tiinani. and Invercargil] districts in March, 1913, caused some delay to mails. The post-office at the Hermitage was temporarily cut off from postal and telephonic communication. In the mail from Matiere to Ongarue, on the 23rd July, one bag disappeared in transit. It was discovered on the 28th, rifled of its contents, valued at £160. Dead am> Missing Lettebs. The undermentioned articles of value were found in letters in the Dead Letter Orhce, and returned to senders where practicable: 885 post-office orders, £2,846 Bs. 10d. : 68 bank drafts, £4.(522 16s. : 1,056 cheques. £9.731 2s. Id. : 20 dividend warrants. ElO7 7s. lOd. ; 24 promissory notes. £1,125 19s. sd. ; postal notes, £586 9s. Gd.; British postal orders, £103 6s. 6d. ; stamps, £56 2s. lOjd. : bank-notes (including a 15-dollar bill), £613 2s. 6d. ; gold. £54: silver and copper, £17 os. Bd.: representing a total of £19,863 16s. 5Jd.

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Amongst other things dealt with there were 17 gold watches, 31 gold brooches, 16 gold chains. 18 gold lings, 8 gold tie-pins, 3 gold bangles, 3 gold medals, 2 gold-mounted tusk-brooches, 3 pair gold earrings. I gold-mounted cigar-holder, 1 piece of gold quartz. 18 gold-mounted greenstone pendants. 11 gold-mounted greenstone brooches, 38 silver watches, 9 silver chains, 5 silver brooches. 13 silver spoons, 3 silver medals, I silver-mounted jar, 2 pieces of greenstone, I pair field-glasses, 1 masonic jewel. .") railway tickets, I steamer ticket, l<> lottery-tickets, 5 pawn-tiokets, and 'J share certificates. The proportion of dead or unclaimed letters, letter-cards, and post-cards to the total number delivered within the Dominion was 0-49 per cent., as against 0*44 per cent, in 1911. 224,948 letters were opened and returned to writers through the Dead Letter Office : 59,457 were returned unopened to other countries; 785 were reissued : 31,462 were destroyed; 246,119 were retui I by Chief Postmasters : a total of 562,761 letters, as compared with 196,068 in 1911. 51,569 other articles were returned to Foreign countries: 9.e>30 were returned to senders through the Demi Letter Office : 309,769 were returned by Chief Postmasters : a total of 370.968 articles, as compared wil h 345,887 in 191 I. 18,048 letters were wrongly addressed; 12 letters were discovered to have been posted with previously used stamps ; 9,064 unclaimed registered letters were dealt with. 1,37] newspapers and 2.873 books and other articles withoul addresses were received, many of which were subsequently applied for and delivered 28,403 newspapers were returned to publishers. 3,085 letters and 896 letter-cuds were posted without addresses. Eighty-two letters with libellous addresses were intercepted. 5.181 inquiries for postal packets, alleged to have been posted and not delivered, were made during 1912. [n 3.118 of the inquiries over half of the total number the investigations by the Department resulted in the missing articles being traced or accounted for. These may be summarized as follows: Number of ■ „ ~ m , ~ Result. Craoed CaecH. 882 .. .. .. .. .. Sender responsible lor delay. 717 .. .. .. .. .. Addressee responsible for delay. 322 .. .. .. .. .. Boat Office responsible for delay. 1,197 .. .. .. .. .. No delay, or responsibility not"fixed .1.118 Offences. At Auckland a young man, charged with misappropriating £1 from a registered letter delivered to him in error, was admitted to probation for two years upon refund of the sum stolen and payment of costs amounting to £5 ss. A telegraph message-boy was convicted of the theft of £6 from a registered letter. Under section 14 (1) of the Civil Service Act. 1908, be ceased to be an officer of the Department. ,V telegraph message-boy at was dismissed from the service for failing to deliver a. registered letter entrusted to him. On a charge of signing a fictitious name to a telegram at a man was lined £5 and costs. On a charge of conspiring to defraud by means of telegrams, two persons, one of whom was an officer of the Department, were convicted at Blenheim and were each fined £20, together with costs of £10 and £20 respectively ; in default, to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding three months. Tile officer was dismissed. A person convicted at Taumarunui of sending telegrams in breach of the Licensing Act and in a fictitious name was sentenced to on imprisonment. A man was convicted and sentenced at Wellington to imprisonment for eighteen months with hard labour on the eh slegrams* addressed to another person which he obtained by fraud. An office-cleaner at Wanganui was sentenced on the llth July, 1912. to nine month's imprisonment For ! he i befi of postal packets. For stealing £42 from a postal packet at Omakau,.a railway employee was brought before the Court and admitted to probation for twelve months. A fellow railway employee was also admitted to a similar term of probation for receiving a portion of the stolen amount. Three registered letters containing money were stolen at Runcimau. The offender, who was arrested in Sydney, was sentenced to reformative treatment for two years. At Otakl a man was convicted and lined £] and costs for using a defaced stamp as postage on a letter. New General Post Office. The new i'ost. (lltice was. in the absence of the Postmaster-General, opened by the Minister of Public Works on the 26th November, 1912. The building is in the style of classic Renaissance, and is constructed, of brick and Tonga Bay granite. It consists of a basement and four floors. The building has a frontage 0fJ172 ft. with Bidejfrontages"ofjl2Bjft. 11 in. and 125.ft. 10 in., and, with the old General Posi Office building oooupies a complete city block. The parapet of the building is 74 ft. above the footpath, and the height to the top of the domes is 100 main public office is lighted by a lead-light dome 21 ft. in diameter and seven smaller ones of similar design. The money-order and savings bank office and a large mail-room are also on the ground-floor. There are 1,550 steel private letter-boxes provided. On the first, floor are the telegraph-operating room, the Chief Telegraph Engineer's branch, and the letter-carriers' sorting-room. The second floor is occupied by the Postmaster-General, the Secretary and his staff, and the Public Service Commissioner. The third

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floor is occupied by the staffs of the Controllei of Money-orders unci Savings-banks and the Chief Accountant. Magneta clocks, controlled by fcwo master-clocks, are installed throughout the building. Four electric lifts and Lamson pneumatic carriers are provided. The cost of the building (exclusive of foundations) was £97.000. The furniture for the building was manufactured in the Department's workshops. A feature in the design of the building is the allegorical group of statuary over the main porch representing the "Girdled Earth," designed by -Mr. Alfred Drury, A.H.A.. flanked by figures, one representing " Letter-delivery," and the other " Telegraphy." New Chief Post-office, Auckland. The new chief post-office building at Auckland was opened by the Prime Minister on the 20th November, 1912. The building is in the style of English Renaissance, and has a frontage of 180 ft. by 140 ft. depth. The design somewhat resembles that of the General Post Office. The material used in the construction of the building is Coromandel granite, with Oamaru stone front. On the flat roof there is erected a wireless-telegraph station. The contract price of the building was £95,000. Buildings. The other new offices officially opened were: Clive, Kaitangata, Kaiwarawara, Kavakawa, Ohura, Otane, Pleasant Point, Waihou, and Westport. The following offices were transferred to departmental new buildings : Awakino, Balfour, (iianitv. Hawea Flat, Kawakawa, Matamata, Murchison, Ohura, Ponsonby, Ravensbourne, Sydenham, Westport, and Whangamomona. Sites have been purchased at Awanui, Bombay, Brooklyn, Dargaville, Hataitai, Henderson, Island Bay, Khandallah, Kilbirnie, Kimbolton, Middlemarch, Miramar, New Lynn, Ohaupo. Oxford. Raglan, Ross, St. Clair, St. John's, Spring Creek, Takapuna, Waiuku, and Worser Bay. During the year buildings were erected at Awakino, Balfour, Canvastown, Clive, Hawea Flat, Kaeo, Kaitangata, Kaiwarawara, Kawakawa, Matamata. Murchison, Ohura, Opotiki, Otane, Pleasant Point, Ponsonby, Putaruru, Ravensbourne, Sydenham. Takaka (residence), Te Aroha, Waiau (lineman's cottage), Waihou, Westport, Whangamomona. Contracts have been let for buildings at Gore (restoration of building) and Tokaanu. Buildings are in course of erection at Kaikohe, Kaitaia, Papakura. Roxburgh, Timaru (clock). Wellington (bulk store). The post-office at Kimbolton was destroyed by fire on the 13th May, 1013. All records and mailmatter were saved. The post-office, at Okoroire was destroyed by fire on the 30th May, 1912. On the 22nd February, 1913, the Town of Westport was much shaken by a heavy earthquake, which damaged several buildings. The new post-office was considerably cracked in several places. Lamson pneumatic carriers have been installed between the old and the new post-office buildings in Auckland City. The tubes are in underground pipes. MoNKY-ORDERS. During the year then' were 10 money-order offices opened and '2 dosed, the number remaining open ai the end of the year being 742. 666.425 money-orders were issued, for £3,231.319 Ms. 6d., as compared with 607,764 Eor £2,759,393 Bs. sd. for the previous year- an increase of 58,661 in number and £471,956 'is. Id. in amount . 536.130 money-orders, amounting bo £2,870,523 Is. Bd., were paid, as against 483,043 for £2,416,958 15s. LOd., during 1911- an increase of 53.087 orders and £463,564 ss. Kid. in i m. 173,080 orders, for £528,880 ss. lid., were drawn Eor payment in places beyond New Zealand. 13. 161 orders, for £173,574 2s. Id., were issued at ofliees abroad for payment in Xew Zealand. The commission received for money-orders amounted to £16.398 16s. 2d.. as against £15.307 7s. 7d. lor 191 I. an increase of £1,091 Bs. 7d. Postal Notes. Fifty-two offices were opened and 7 closed, leaving 91 I postal-note offices at the end of the year. 1.970,643 notes, representing a value of £636,473 os. 6d., were sold, as against 1,821.566 notes. tor £571.979 18s. 6d., sold during the previous year —an increase of 8-18 per cent, in number and 10-69 per cent, in value. The postal notes paid numbered 1,957,576, of the value of £624,086 125.. as compared with 1.81 1,096. of the value of £572,112 165., paid during 191M2. The postal-note commission amounted to £9.029 195.. as against £8,329 13s. 2d. —an increase of £700 ss. lOd., or 8-40 per cent. British Postal Orders. 100,661 orders, representing a value of £51,651 19s. 7d., have been sold, and 24,405, for £15,681 Is. Gd., paid. An extended table of the transactions is printed in Table 5. There was an increase of 13-71 per cent, in the number and 13-05 per cent, in the amount of postal orders sold during the year, and 4-16 per cent, in the number paid.

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Savings-bank. During the year 42 offices were opened and 5 closed, leaving 721 offices open at the end (if 1912. 85,529 accounts were opened and 58,896 closed, the net gain on the years working being 26,633 accounts. The number of accounts on the 31st December, 1912, was 432,199, and the proportion per bead of population was lin 255, as compared with lin 2 - 65 at the end of the previous year. The deposits numbered 877.889. representing £11.725,182 16s. 5d.. an average of £13 7s. Id. per transaction. The withdrawals numbered 589,388. for £11,449,71] -'is. 7d., an average of £19 Bs. (id. for encli withdrawal. The net amount added by depositors to their savings during the year was £275,471 12s. lOd.. excess of deposits, plus £511,598 18s. Bd. interest earned and credited, making a total of £787.070 11s. 6d. The total amount at credit of depositors increased from £15,543,186 16s. Bd. at the close of the previous year to £16,330,257 Bs. 2d. on the 31st December last, representing a sum equal to £14 16s. 3d. per head of the entire population, and £37 15s. Bd. to each depositor. The interest credited to depositors since the Post Office Savings-banks were established in 1867 amounts to £5,985,599 15s. lOd. The cost of working the savings-banks amounted to 4-74 d. per transaction, or £29,000 for the year. The cost of management per cent, on the total amount at credit of depositors was 0-18 per cent., or 3s. 7d., per £100. From Ist May, 1913, the rate of interest on savings-bank deposits not exceeding £300 was raised from 3J per cent, to 3f per cent. Contributors to the National Provident Fund who are also depositors in the Savings-bank may now have contributions deducted from their savings-bank account. The system of savings-bank nominations by persons wishing to nominate a relative or friend to receive any savings-bank moneys at their credit in the event of death continues to find public favour. \t tin- present iinic 1.1 I") nominations are recorded in the books of the Department. The numbei of savings-bank depositors who have given orders for the deduction of their Government fnsurance premiums as they fall due from the balance to credit of their savings-bank accounts is 2,195. The subscribers to the National Provident Fund who have acted in a like manner number I Hi. Transfers cif savings-bank accounts between the Dominion and the United Kingdom by depositors removing both to and from New Zealand last year totalled (iBO. A new edition of Pout Office Savings-bank regulations and instructions was issued during the year. 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 coining through the post from places beyond the Dominion amounting to 177.311 lls. 9d., and on account of ordinary Customs work £1,176 Is. 4d. Advances to Settlers receipts amounted to £2,656,116 ss. Bd., and payments to £2,672,578 18*. 7d. Fishing licenses were issued by Postmasters to the value of 1 1 . 1 80 2s. 6d.. and game licenses to the value of £3,876 16s. For the Government Insurance Department premiums were collected from the public amounting to £29,490 ss. 6d. The sum of £28,550 18s. 9d. was paid to Imperial pensioners by Postmasters. Income-tax amounting to £277.529 11s. Id. and land-tax to £543,739 10s. 9d, was collected by Postmasters. The sum of £9,901 7s. 6d., fees due to the Machinery Department, was received. Under the Mining Act the receipts were £175 15s. New Zealand Consols for £2,120 were sold on behalf of the Treasury. On behalf of the Public Trustee, £958,745 9s. Bd. was received and £975,877 10s. lid. paid. Pees received for tile registration of births, deaths, and marriages an nted to £2,723 Is. Receipts from the Hanmer Springs Sanatorium amounted to !:2.29r> 2s. ild. Valuation fees paid to Postmasters reached £6,096 6s. Bd. Claims on the General Government for £1,519,023 2s. lid. were paid on behalf of the Treasury. Discount-stamps numbering i>74.880. for £1,015 10s.. were sold and 978,672, for £1,019 95., redeemed during the year. Contributions to the National Provident Fund collected by Postmasters amounted to £5,38] l-'ss. Id. Old-age pensions paid during 1912 amounted to £413,530 55., military pensions to £20<> 55., and widows' pensions to £18,527 ss. 9d.. while payments on behalf of the Public Service Superannuation Board reached £99;674 6s. 7d. On the Ist April. H)J3. the duties of the Collectors of Customs at Oamaru and Hokitika were transferred to the Chief Postmasters. Telegraphs. The total value of the telegraph and telephone business for the year ended Slst March, 1913, including miscellaneous telegraph receipts and Government telegrams, was £528,119 Its. 2d.. as compared with £479.289 17s. 4d. for the previous year, an increase of £48,829 16s. 10d.. or 10-19 per cent.

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The following is a comparison of the traffic in paid telegrams during the last five years:-— Number. Receipts. 1908-9 ... 7,338,017 Increase, 546 percent. ... 233,517 Increase, 475 per cent. 1909-10 ... 7,757,128 ~ 5-71 244,906 „ 1-88 1910-11 ... 8,268,:; in „ 659 265,624 , 845 1911-12 ... 8,971,725 „ .Sol 288,43J „ 8-59 1912-13 ... 9,850,370 „ 979 ... 318,960 885 The a umber of telegrams forwarded and the receipts therefrom during the four quarters of the financial years 1911-12 and 1012 I.'! respectively arc as follows: —

The telegraph receipts for the financial year, including telephone-exchange subscriptions, privatewire rents, &c, amounted to £523,188 13s. 7d., as compared with £474,458 6s. 10d. in 1911-12 —an increase of £48,730 6s. 9d., or 10-27 per cent. The payments were £509,496 13s. 7d., as against £4(59,716 17s. 7d. for the previous year — an increase of £39,779 165., or 8-17 per cent. There were 12,508 miles of line and 11,892 miles of wire at the close of the yeai increase of 703 and 2,522 miles respectively. The net payments out of Public Works Fund fur telegraph-extension were £251,374 13s. Bd.. as compared wit ii £] 17.W2 6s. Bd. in 1911-12. The number of private wires and subsidized lines was 517, as compared with 519 in 1911-12. The amount received lii- rent and maintenance, &c, of such lines was £3,865 12s. Bd., as againsi £3,325 17s. 4d. in 1911-12. The extension of lines into remote districts is proceeding vigorously, and 138 new offices were opened during the year. The total number of telegraph and telephone offices open at the dose of the year was 2.20.'!. Of these. 317 were Morse-telegraph offices and 1,886 \vf.re telephone-offices. The total number of telegraph ami telephone offices combined with post-offices was 1,811 ; not combined, 392. The number of telegrams of all codes forwarded during the last financial year was 9,944,272— an increase of 881,139, or 8-98 per cent, over 1911-12. The proportion of paid telegrams per head of population was 8-03, and s-.'il the previous year. The number of ordinary telegrams forwarded was 6,177,847, of the value of £193,786 17s. Id., compared with 5,911,322. of the value of £185,612 9s. Id., in 1911 12 an increase of 266,525 in number, and of £8,174 Bb. in amount. The urgent telegrams numbered 280,27(1. to the value of £18,253 -"is. S<\~- an increase of 21,287 in number and £2,398 16s. 10d. in amount. The average value of each ordinary telegram was 7-53 d., and of each urgent telegram Is. .'Wild. 156,350 Press telegrams, of the value of £23.424 2s. J Id., were forwarded in 1912—13, as compared with 440,506, valued at £22,152 18s. 7|d., forwarded in lit] 1-12 —an increase in number of 15,844, or .')•() per cent., and an increase of £1,271 4s. 3&d., or 5-74 per cent, in value. The. value of each Press telegram averaged Is. 0-32 d.. as against Is. 0-06 d. in 1911-12. The bureau messages numbered 2,935.1)12, of the value of £78,405 I Us. 2d.. as compared wit 11 2,360,014. of the value of £64,811 19s. 9d.. in h<ll 12—an increase of 574.908 in number and £13,683 19s. sd. in amount. The average value of each bureau message was ii-42d.. as against 6-59 d. in 1911-12. The number of Government telegrams forwarded was !)M,8o:->, valued at £4,93] os. 7d.. as compared with 01,408. \alned at £4,831 10s. 6d. —an increase of 2,485 in number, and £00 H)s. Id. in amount. The number of paid forwarded telegrams to every hundred letters posted in Xew Zealand was 10-57. Two telegram-accounting machines on the principle of the cash-register were installed at tile Telegraph Office, Auckland, on the 16th June, 1912. The first coin-in-slot telephones erected in the Dominion were installed at the Lambton and Thorndon railway-stations. Wellington, on the 17th August, 1010. There are now 39 such instruments in use at the principal centres of population throughout the Dominion, .'ill of these having been installed during the year ended the 31st March. L 913.

Number of Telegrams Receipts forwarded. r Quarter. Year ended Year ended , ,, , Jc ■■fist \fnrpli qut ifo rr .i, Increase Year ended Yeartii e<1 S« 81st March, 31st March. perCent. 8Ht March, 1912. 81st Marc-,, 1918. 5° June quarter September quarter December quarter March quarter ... £ s. d. E r. d. ... J, 099,745 2,341,71-1 11-52 66,808 8 2i 76,180 1 4 12-53 ... 2,084,614 2,308,35] 1073 66,738 18 2£ 73,973 1 6 10 84 ... 2,353,496 2,565,435 9-00 76,480 3 5* 81,318 8 74 633 ... 2,433,870 2,634,879 826 78,404 6 8" 83,488 13 7i 6-49 8,971,725 9,850,379 9-79 288,431 16 5 1 8-85

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The revenue collected from this class of telephi Eoi the year ended 31s1 March, 1913, was L 1.192 ss. 9d. The charge on full-rate Press telegrams Erom New Zealand to Great Britain l>v all routes was reduced on the 10th October. 1912, to 7Jd. per word. By the Country Telephone-lines Act, 1912, power was given to County Councils to borrow money lor the purpose of erecting telephone-lines to connect with Government exchanges, and to levy taxation sufficient to ensure payment of interest and redemption of the loan. From tiie Ist August, 1912, the amount to be demanded from guarantors of new telephone-lines was reduced from one-half to one-third of the estimated deficiency. As the public demand fur hooks of embossed telegram forms bad almost entirely ceased, thej were withdrawn Erom sale in February, 1913. * At Wellington and Christchurch a trial is being given to the conveyance of telegrams between the principal telegraph-office and the sub-offices by telegraph message-boys mounted on motor-cycles. Previously Hie messages were transmitted by telegraph or telephone instrument. Both expedition and economy have resulted from the change. By a rearrangement of wires effected at New Plymouth by the Telegraph Engineer, Wellington, communication between New Plymouth and Auckland lias been greatly accelerated. To give the King-country telephone-communication with offices in the Waikato and with Auckillic circuit was erected between Taumarunui and Hamilton. An additional telephone circuit is being erected between Wellington and Palmerston North to cope wit h i iic increased business. A second metallic circuit was erected between Christchurch ami Timani. and by superinipusition liner telephone circuits between those places have been obtained. The weather-foreoast-telegram system was extended to 200 stations on the 2nd September, 1912. During -Inly. 1912. telegraphic communication in the South Island was seriously retarded by damage to telegraph-lines through heavy falls of snow. Repairs to the lines over Whale's Back, between Waiau and Kaikoura. were effected by linemen on skis. A lineman was accidentally killed at Wellington on the 28th May. 1912. through coming into contacl with a high-tension electric-light wire and falling off a telephone-pole. New Zealand Cable Sekvtce. There were 374 knots of submarine cable in the Dominion on the 31st March. 1913. A length of 2-38 knots of cable was laid for the Pori Hardy extension at D'Urville Island, The submarine cables generally gave some trouble during the year. Breaks occurred in one ill the Oterangi Bay cables in August, 1912. Repairs were effected, 2.300 yards of new cable being used. On the Gth May, 1913, two Cook Strait cables parted some distance out from Lyall Bay. A lanh also occurred in the Foveaux Strait cable. The Wanganui-Wakapuaka cable developed a fault, and the faulty portion was located and replaced by a new piece of cable. Ocean Cable Services. The ordinary international telegrams for the year increased by 13"5 per cent., and the intercolonial by 7 per cent. New Zealand's proportion of the deficit of £40,498 18s. lid. on the tenth year's working pf the Pacific cable, 1911-12, amounted to £4,499 17s. Bd. The receipts and working-expenses of the Pacific cable for the year ended 31st March, 1913, are estimated as follows: — t t Traffic revenue .. .. 157,000 Annuity and renewals .. 107,545 Estimated deficit .. . . 37,400 Working-expenses .. .. 86,855 £194,400 £194,400 New Zealand's proportion of the loss is stated at £4,156. The share of ordinary paid business handled by the Pacific cable shows a slight increase on thai obtained during the previous year. In 1908 the Pacific proportion was <S5 per cent., the Eastern 15 per cent. The 1912 13 figures are : Pacific, 71 per cent. ; Eastern, 29 per cent. The following figures show the total number of ordinary telegrams forwarded for each of the pasl five years, and the percentages of such business falling to each route : — Pacific. X.X.A. & ('. 1908 .. .. 101,724 85 1908 .. .. 18,873 15 L 909 .. .. 96,648 83 1909 .. .. 19,812 17 1910 .. .. 87,326 72 1910 .. .. 33,273 28 [911-12 .. .. 89,276 69 1911-12 .. 39,374 31 IDI2-13 .. .. 99.617 71 1912-13 .. 40.680 29 hnring tiie year New Zealand has given the Pacific route 71-12 per cent, oi the ordinary business to Australia, as against 69-48 per cent, last year. Returns received from London showed that for the first three months of 1913 the average time of transit on New Zealand business over the Pacific cable was only eighty minutes. The station at Auckland now works directly with Suva through repeaters at Norfolk Island, thus reducing by two tlic number of transmissions between New Zealand and the Mother-country.

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1,106 I , icss telegrams wore sent via Pacific and 1.571 via Eastern, compared with 912 and 1.250 respectively last year. A .system of deferred cable messages instituted on the Ist January, 1912, providing for transmission ai half the ordinary charge (such messages being forwarded after ordinary cable messages, but not suffering a longer delay than twenty-four hours) is fully appreciated by the cabling public. A system providing for the despatch of week-end cable messages between places in New Zei Liml and the I aited Kingdom lodged between midnight on Saturdays and noon on Mondays was inaugurated on the Itli .January, 1913. The charge for transmission over the cable is 9d. per wind, with a minimum ill 1 8s.. id. per word being added in each case for transmission over inland lines in the Dominion or in the United Kingdom. Details of the traffic attached to this report indicate that the innovation will lie generously supported. A new deep-sea cable directly connecting Sydney with Auckland has been successfully laid, and is operated by the staff of the I'aeitic Cable Board, now accommodated in the new Chief Post-office building at Auckland. The ocean cable is run from Bondi, near Sydney, to Muriwai, on the west coast of the Auckland Province. On behalf of the Pacific Cable Board the Departmeni surveyed a route and laid a subterranean cable between Muriwai Beach and Harkin s Point, a distance ol Mi- miles. Two cables were drawn into the underground ducts extending from the Ponsonby Keel' to the Board's office ai Auckland. The cable which formerly landed ai Doubtless Bay and connected the Dominion at Norfolk [sland with the Pacific cable to Vancouver has been extended to Auckland. Wireless Telegraphy. The wireless station of 2i kilowatts erected on Mount Etako, immediately behind the City of Wellington, and designated "Radio-Wellington, was opened on ine lltn October. 1012. The Station is situated 985 ft. above sea-level. Power is supplied from an extension of the city electric mains. It is open for business continuously. At nignt signals are exchanged with vessels within a radius of 600 to 1,000 miles, according to the varying atmospheric conditions, and almost nightly with some of the Australian stations. Telephone and telegraph wires between the station and the city facilitate the prompt handling of messages. The aerial, which is supported by two masts of Oregon pine 150 It. high, and about 300 ft. apart, is of the Hat-to]) type, and is composed of four phosphor-bronze wires I I'i. apart. From the middle of i iie aerial lour wires extend downward to Ihe building. The earl h conned ion consists of 300 copper wires radiating about 300 ft. from the station, situated midwaj between the masts. The ground is of rocky formation, wit h irregular surface. The results obtained from the working of the station have exceeded expectations. The experimental wireless station which was situated m the tower of the General Post Office has been dismantled. On the 24th October, 1912, a 2J-kilowatl station, open during certain hours daily, was established on the poof of the new Chief Post-oHice at Auckland. The tubular steel masts of this station have been erected on the two domes of the building. Excellent results have also been obtained. The range is somewhat less than that of "Radio-Wellington. The installation of wireless apparatus on the Government cable steamer "Tutanekai" was completed on the 20th June, 1912. The equipment has already proved valuable in aiding the work of repair to submarine cables. The erection of the Chatham islands wireless station of 2.1 kilowatts is proceeding, and communication will be established shortly. Tiie high-power station at Awanui of Mo kilowatts has been completed. It will be capable of communicating with Sydney at any hour. This station is provided with a tower 394 f- in height, from which an umbrella-shaped aerial spreads from summit to base over an area of about 90 acres. A similar station at Awarua. near Bluff, is also completed. These stations are undergoing departmental tests. At the International Radio-telegraphic Convention at London, in June. 1912. the question of the regulation of wireless communication was reviewed. Tiie Convention emphasized the need of a closer observance of the regulation requiring ships to communicate witii the nearest coast station so as to minimize the interference peculiar to wireless communications and to permit of a greater number of radio-telegraphic messages being exchanged simultaneously. The use of minimum power for the distance to be covered has also been enjoined lor the same reason. In exceptional cases maximum power may be used and a station other than tiie nearest one may be communicated with if a special wave-length be employed. The general trend of the amended regulations is in the direction of limiting long-distance working from one ship to another and between a ship and a coasi station in order to circumscribe the area of disturbance. Ships are to be graded in three classes, and to observe prescribed hours of attendance, principally to ensure distress signals being observed. The amended regulations come into force in July, 1913. Sixteen ship stations are registered in New Zealand. The Telefunken system is used at all New Zealand shore stations. By the radio-telegraphic service of the Department weather reports from and to vessels are on request transmitted five of charge. Tklephonk Exchanges. Twenty new exchanges were opened during the year, the number of subscribers increased by 1.50(1 and the number of connections by 5.(i77. The total number of exchanges now is 213, made up of 60 central and 153 sub-exchanges.

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The total number of connections is 42,934., compared with .'5T. 257 in 1912. They may be classified as follows: Paying direct, 32,252 ; extensions, 6,560 ; bureaux, 3,686 ; service. 136. New connections numbered 6,686, and those given up 1,795. The increase in connection is equal to 15-24 per cent. A new edition of tin , regulations for guidance d( officers in telephone exchangee was issued during fhe year. A branch telephone exchange for the Ueneral Post Office building was opened oh the -'loth December, 1912. On the .'ilst March, L 913, therejwere 1,976 miles of telephone-line and 47,005 miles of wire. New exchangee were opened at Albury, Coalgate, Darfield, Easi Oxford, Fordell, Havelock, Ahum rewa, Mercer, Ohaeawai. Owaka, I'apatoetoe, Piopio, Putaruru, Raglan, Rangataua, Renwicktown, Seddon, Thornbury, Urenui, and Waiwera. To meet the increase of subscribers at Auckland and Wellington, the switchboards have been supplemented by the installation of automatic sections to accommodate 5(10 numbers. Bare wires are being replaced by lead-covered cables where the increase of subscribers makes the number of individual wires excessive. Tenders were invited for automatic telephone exchanges at Wellington, Auckland, Blenheim Hamilton, Masterton and Oamaru. The tender of the Western Electric Company was accepted. Much trouble and expense has been caused by faults in the Wellingtnn-Hutt aerial telephone cable during stormy weather. Arrangements have been made for a subterranean cable service. Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Trunk Links Sections of line totalling 1,510 miles have been overhauled and strengthened during the year. as under : Auckland district, 185 miles ; Wellington district, 260 miles ; Nelson district, 50 miles ; Canterbury district, 565 miles ; Otago district, 450 miles. Xew testboards were fitted at Bluff, Cambridge, Eltham. Helensville, Inglewood, Kawakawa, Matamata, Murchison, Ohaeawai. Otahuhu, Putaruru, Te Aroha, Whangarei, and Win ton. A superimposed Morse circuit was opened between New Plymouth and Tβ Kiiiti, with Awakino intermediate. Tin , following were converted from telephone to .Morse offices: Awakino, East Oxford, Kaponga. Kohatu, Nightcaps. Ongarue, Roslyn, Stillwater, and Whangamomona. Metallic circuit for telephone-communication, Napier to Palmerston North, was completed as far as Waipawa on the LOth December. 1912, and brought into Use. The new metallic circuit was brought into use Eor bureau communication between Wellington and Auckland on the Ist April, 1913.

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DESIGNATION OF OFFICES CHANGED OR CORRECTED.

INLAND MAIL-SERVICES ESTABLISHED, EXTENDED, AND ABOLISHED.

Postal District. Changed from Changed to Auckland Dunedin Gisborne Invercargill Napier ... j Hunua Siding ... ; Mangeao ... Maungatapu. ... Maungatawhiri ... Maungatawhiri Valley ... Miranui ... Oio ... Oruaiti ... Euakohua ... ... Barewood ... Kanakanae ... ... Kaiwera ... Oraki ... Mangaone Valley ... Opaheke. ... Waitanguru. ... Mangatapu. ... Mangatawhiri. ... Mangatawhiri Valley. ... Mangatapu. ... Hukapapa. ... Paraoanui. ... Glen brook. ... Pukerangi. ... Kanakanaia. Karere. ... Tihaka. ... Tangitere.

District. Name i>1 Berviei Frequency. Remarks. \ui-l. [and Arapae PoHt-office- Coach.. .. As required Otahuhu Post-office Railway-station Rawrne Poet-office wharf .. .. .. Maromaku Post-office Railway-station Daily .. Matamata Taihoa . . .. .... Okahukura Posi - office Railwayetation Orakci Post-office wharf .. .. „ .. Te Koura Post-office Railway-station ,, Kohukohu—Ivydale .. .. Four times weekly Karapiro Taotaoroa .. .. Thrice weekly .. Mangaohutu Post-office - river landing T hri o e weekly. summer; twice weekly, winter Offices in Whangarei Harbour .. Thrice weekly .. Eikurangi ■■ point aear Mama .. Twice weekh' Kaeo Pupuke Kaitieke—Retaruke Kaitieke - Retaruke Valley Hoad (rural delivery) Otamatea—Batley Poroti—Kokopu .. .. .. • Pukemiro Waingaro Ngaruawahia Road Warkwnrth-I'ohiieliue Wliawharua Otorohanga .. Wiiiillcy s Farm Matapouri Aria I'ira . . . . . . Weekly Mangapai Wharf Onerahi Mangatawhiri- Mangatangi Port Fiteroy-Okiwi Taupo Waitahanui .. .. „ Whangapara Awanga lleleiisville Post - office Railwaystation Kailiu Rotorima. . Kawhia-Pukeinoi Manga wai—Tarn Maminui Post-office Railway-etation Ngaruawahia, &e. KarapepeCreamery Ngungiiru—Matapouri Okupu—Owanga .. (Inelea I'arakau . . Ongarue Post-office-Railway-station Otamatea-Batley Established. -. Abolished.

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Inland Mail-services established, extended, and abolished — continued.

District. Name of Service. Frequence. Itemarka. Auckland— rnltl. Parua Kay. Ike. Whangarei Heads .. Abolished. landing Tangitu-Mapiu Tatimai'tiinii Post -office Railwaystation and Post-office river landing Taupo Waitahanui Taurakawa—Puniwhakau Te Kuiti Post-office-Railway-station Topuni-Kaiwaka.. Waihou Post-office - Railway-station Waimauku Waikoukou .... Whakapara Post - office - Railwaystation Whangarei, &e. - Mangapai Blenheim .. Portage, &c. - Kenepuru .. Twice weekly .. Established. Kenepuru Bead—Portage .. .. .. Abolished. St. Outer-Portage .. .. .. „ Christohurob .. East Oxford - Glentui (rural delivery) Daily .. .. Established. Cheviot - Port Robinson .. .. Weekly .. „ Glentunncl. ,Vc. Wimlwhistlc House .. Extended to Whakamatau. Dunedin .. Kaitangata Post -office Railway- As required .. Established. station Clinton-Knriwao. . .. .. Daily, summer: twice weekly. winter Clyde Earnsoleugh .. .. Thrice weekly .. Owaka-Pounawea Puketiro Post-office - Railway-station Ratanui-Hinahina .. .. Twice weekly Tawanui Post-office - Papatutu Rail- „ way siding Lindis Pass-Tarras .. .. Weekly .. „ GoodwoodPost-office-Railway-station .. Abolished. Houipapa—Tawanui .. .. j .. .. (See Established.) Nevis Upper Nevis portion of Ran nookburn ■ Upper Nevis service Owaka-Pounawea Puketiro-Houipapa .. .. .. .. (See Established.) Gisborne .. Otoko Post-office Railway-station.. As required Established. Waingake Paparatu Homestead .. i Twice weekly, „ summer: weekly, wint. r Gisborne, &o. Wairoa .. .. Weekly Kakauroa Tahora, via Valley Road Tiniroto Kairoa . . Waerengaokuri—Pehiri .. .. .. .. ,, Gisborne, &o. Waikohu .. .. .. Extended to Otoko. Gisborne, &e. — Wairoa (extra service) .. Abolished. Waikohu Otoko .. .. .. .. .. (See Extended.) Hokitika .. Kanieri Forks Hokitika Weheka Gillespie's Reach [nveroargill Waikawa. &c. Tokonui Railway- Four times weekly Established. station SpringhillsRailway-station Post-office Thrice weekly .. Half-moon Bay Murray River Weekly Parawa -Nokomai Athol Nokomai .. .. .. .. Abolished. (See Established.) Waikawa Post-offioe Clenavy Napier .. Ilatuma Rangitoto Marakckc (rural Thrice weekly .. Established. delivery) Takapau. &c. Makaretu, via Ashcot ,, Elsthorpe The Valley Road (rural Twice weekly .. delivery) Nuhaka — Steed's Store .. .. .. Abolished. Takapau Makaretu, via Ashcot .. .. .. (See Ksiablished.) Nelson Tarakohe Post-office wharf .. As required .. Established. Hariri Lower Moutere .. .. Daily Wakefield Korekc .. .... Aporo - Harley's Road .. .. Thrice weekly Kotintra Takaka . . . . . . „ Golden Ridge Mangarakan .. Twice weekly Kaka Tumanako Appleby Mapua .. .. .. Weekly New Plymouth Huinga Toko .. .. .. Daily .. Pohokura Post-office—Railway-station Whangamomona Railway terminus Daily, except Thursdays Ratapiko Kaimata .. .. Daily, summer; thrice weekly, winter Mokau-Pariwaro .. .. Twice weekly Strathmorc Pahauluhia .. .. Weekly Taurakawa-Pniiiwhakiiu .. Oamaru Oamaru: delivery of parcels .. Daily .. apier lelson ew Plymouth lamaru

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District. Name ol iervico. Frequency. Remarks. 'names Tauranga - Mount Maunganui . . Thrice weekly .. Pipiroa - Pipiroa Wharf .. .. Twice weekly .. Tauranea-Omanawa .. .. „ Kaimai-Tauranga .. . . Weekly Tiraaru (clearance of posting-boxes) , Twice daily Fairlie - Lake Pukaki .. ( Thrice weekly, ■j summer; weekly, Fairlie-Hermitage .. I winter Pembroke-Queenstown .. .. Twice weekly, 1st Nov. to 30th April Lake Tekapo - Burke's Pass . . Weekly (winter service) Lake Pukaki - Pembroke .. .. Weekly, 1st Nov. to 30th April Teiiiuka, &c. -Clandeboye Fairlic-Ashwick (rural delivery) Established. 'imaru Extended to Orakapaoa. Extended to Sherwood Downs Homestead. Abolished. Wanganui Wellington Fairlie, &c. - Hermitage Lake Tekapo - Burke's Pass Koriniti - Landing stage .. .. Daily .. Raetihi-Wharuakura .. .. Thrice weekly .. Tin iroa-Mokai (rural delivery) .. „ Huntervillc, around Silverhope Block Twice weekly and return to Huntervillc (rural delivery) Wanganui, &c. - Rapanui Karioi Post-office-Railway-station.. Kauangaroa-Mangitipua (rural delivery) Westmere Post-offiee-Railway-station Ashhurst, &c. - Hiwinui (rural de- Daily livery) Feilding, &u. — Sanson .. .. .... Levin-Ihakara .. .. .. .... Porirua-Johnsonville .. .. ,, .. Utuwai, &c.-Pohangina (rural delivery) Thrice weekly . . Featherston-Wairongomai (rural de- | livery) Bunnythorpe-Hiwinui Hukanui Post-office-Railway-station Komako - Left bank Pohangina River Tararua-Aokautere Miko Post-office-Railway-station .. Four times weekly St. Helens-Corbyvale-TeNamu .. Weekly Arapito - Junction Arapito and Little Once every four Wanganui Roads weeks Murchison-Longford Established. Extended to Westmere. Abolished. Established. »> Extended to Wharepapa. Abolished. Westport Established. » n Abolished.

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CABLE BUSINESS. The number and value of cable messages forwarded from New Zealand during the financial year 1912-13 are shown in the following statement: —

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Duration of Service. Service. Annual Subsidy or Payment. when established. When terminated or terminable. Number of ; Voyages per Annum. ! Mileage for Complete Voyage. Cost per Mile. Auckland and Fiji .. .. Auckland and South Pacific Islands Auckland and Great Barrier Auckland, Whaugaroa, and Mangonul Daigaville and Tangiteroria Helensville and Matakohe Helensville and Dargaville Horeke, Kohukohu, Rawene, Koutu, Rungi Point, Opononi, and Omapere Russell and Opua N»w Zealand - San Francisco New Zealand - Vancouver New Zealand and Australia (Wel-lington-Sydney) Wellington, Wakatahuri, Homewood (and oiher offices), and Havelock Wellington and Motueka Pictnn, offices in Sounds, and Havelock Ngikuta, Whangakoko, Hakahaka, Ocean Bay, Robin Hood Bay, and Blenheim £ s. d. 1,690 0 0 ! June, 1880 1,200 0 0 June, 1885 250 0 0 : Oct., 1891 126 0 0 Nov., 1907 Dec. 1912 Dec, 1912 13 12 52 52 2,334 6,992 124 368 s. d. 1 1-37 0 3-43 0 9-31 0 1-58 110 0 0 Nov., 1893 150 0 0 Jan., 1881 575 0 0 Jan., 1881 150 0 0 , Jan., 1889 Dec, 1912 Dec, 1912 Dec, 1912 Dec, 1912 156 104 156 156 62 116 128 52 0 2-73 0 2-98 0 691 0 444 90 0 0 Jan., 1889 21,666 13 4 Oct., 1910 20,000 0 0 Aug., 1911 15,000 0 0 Dec, 1906 Dec, 1912 Oct., 1913 Sept., 1916 (as required) 13 13 52 12,180 12,660 1,230 2 8 : 8 2 5-16 4 828 ( Dec, 1891 ■ 420 0 0 (Nov., 1902 j 275 10 0 [ , iq07 1 285 0 0' ) Jan '' 190T 55 0 0 April, 1911 Dec, 1912 26 300 220 0 5'8 Dec, 1912 43 Dec, 1912 26 330 0 7-9 Dec, 1912 52 86 0 2-7 Pottage and Crail Bay f 145 0 0 ) iio 5 o° S!U»-.«»o [ 130 0 0§ ) 165 0 0 Dec, 1912 52 106 0 6-31 Nelson, Tarakohe, Tonga Bay, Totaranui, Takaka, and Collingwood Nelson and Otarawao Westport and Karamea Westport and Little Wanganui .. Hokitika, Okarito, Bruce Bay, Paringa, Haast, Okura, and Jackson's Bay Wellington or Lyttelton and Chatham Islands (including Pitt Island) Bluff and Half-moon Bay Bluff and Ruapuke Island Bluff, Te Oneroa, and Cromarty .. Offices in Whangarei Harbour Dec, 1912 104 130 0 2-93 140 0 0 Jan., 1904 1 fisn n n J June > 1886 I 65 ° ° ° iJan., 1895 850 0 0 Jan., 1886 Dec, 1912 52 ( 36 I 12 6 61 102 ! 82 f 270 0 10-59 jl Dec, 1912 2 9-51 Dec, 1912 10 5-93 350 0 0 Aug., 1914 6 1,050 1 1-33 300 0 0 July, 188G 43 0 0 Sept., 1903 137 10 0 April, 1893 117 0 0 Sept., 1912 Dec, 1912 Dec, 1912 Dec, 1912 Dec, 1912 52 19 6 156 44 26 190 22 2 7-47 1 8-89 2 4-95 0 8-18 ♦ Subsidy increased from 1st Sej rom 6th June, 1912. § Snbsidy dei itember, 1912. t Subsidy ii :reased from 1st October, 1912. icreased from 1st .pril, 1912. ; Subsi idy decreasei

irdinary. Press. Destination. Number of Messages. Value. Number of Messages. Value. International Australia ... 32,826 66,791 £ a. d. 42,751 4 1 12,693 8 6$ £ s. 42,751 4 12,693 8 d. 1 _6i 336 770 £ a. d. 749 10 10 327 6 10* Total for 1912-13 ... 99,617 55,444 12 n 1,106 1,076 17 8J Total for 1911-12 ... 89,276 89,276 51,666 0 : 51,666 0 11 ii 912 618 17 10

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Via Eastern.

The Dominion's outward international and Australian cable business, exclusive of Press, for the years 1912-13 and 1911-12 was as follows :— International. Number of Value. Messages. £ s. d. 1912-13 46,780 61,876 6 0 1911-12 ... ... 41,227 ... ... 57,118 13 2 Increase 5,553 = 13-5 per cent. 4,757 12 10 =83 per cent. Australia. Number of Value. Messaged. £ s. d. 1912-13 93,517 17,467 16 10* 1911-12 87,423 16,059 2 0* Increase 6,094 = 7 per cent. 1,408 14 10 =88 per cent. There was a total increase of 11,647 messages, and an increase of £6,166 7s. Bd. in value. BECEIVED CABLES. The number of cable messages received in New Zealand during the years 1911-12 and 1912-13, exclusive of Press, was as follows: — Via Pacific. International. Australia. 1912-13 ... ... ... ... ... 26,901 51,366 1911-12 " ... 22,840 48,798 Increase ... ... ... ... 4,061 Increase 2,568 Via Eastern. International. Australia. 1912-13 ... ... ... ... ... 16,326 34,872 1911-12 14,691 31,191 Increase ... ... ... ... 1,635 Increase 3,681

Ordinary. 'ress. Destination. International Australia ... Number of , 7 , ■mr Va ue. Messages. £ s. d. ... 13,954 19,125 1 11 26,726 4,774 8 4 Number of Messages. Value. £ s. d. 242 0 9 842 10 10£ 56 1,518 Total for 1912-13 ... ... 40,680 23,899 10 3 1,574 1,084 11 n Total for 1911-12 ... ... 39,374 21,511 14 3i 1,250 679 6 7*

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PEESS. The forwarded and received cable Press business for the past ten years was:—

DEFEKRED CABLES. The deferred-cable traffic for the year 1912-13 was :—

Week-end Gables. The week-end cable traffic for the three months ended 31st March, 1913, was :—

RADIO-TELEGRAMS. Radio-telegraph stations are now established at Wellington and Auckland. The number of messages transmitted up to the 31st March, 1913, is shown in the following statement: —

Forwarded. Received. Year. Nui Messages. iber of Number of Words. Value. Messages. Words. .903 .904 .905 906 .907 .908 .909 910 911-12 ... 912-13 ... 1,595 1,551 2,226 1,815 1,874 2,404 2,270 2,671 2,117 2,680 159,732 161,094 181,196 186,128 135,325 236,759 199,291 168,262 158,590 252,725 £ s. d. 1,235 11 1 1,147 8 8 1,290 9 3 1,290 7 9 1,003 5 5 2,643 6 0£ 2,230 18 3 - 1,362 13 10£ 1,297 14 6 2,161 9 4 5,636 4,488 4,548 4,061 4,204 4,264 4,515 5,893 6,682 6,004 425,824 392,888 398,878 394,337 405,498 380,117 422,949 528,843 582,247 546,187

Forwarded. Received. I T0talVa ' Ue - Number of Messages. i 'ia Pacific ... ,, Eastern... 5,404 807 e 8. 4,544 16 807 8 d. Hi 4,626 1,445 Total 6,211 5,352 4 7 6,071 6,071

Forwarded. Received. Number of Messages. I Total Value. Number of Messages. fia Pacific ... „ Eastern... 366 67 k. s. 455 0 80 17 d. 2 166 130 Total 433 535 17 7* 296

Forwarded. Received. Year. Number of Number of Messages. Words. Total Value. Messages. Words. Total Value. 912-13 .911-12 (eight months) 1,095 10,946 320 3,502 £ s. d. 434 17 8 134 4 11 1,932 16,909 639 6,281 £ s. 666 15 242 16 d. 6 4

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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.

Issued in the Dominion. Where payable. In the Dominion. I United Kingdom and | Australia and other British Foreign Offices. Possessions. Total. Year. Commission received. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. [863 £ M. d. j 1.057 9 o £ s - d - ; 2,201 g,6i3 11 ni s. d. . / s. d. £ s. d. 13 " « 4,740 21,944 2 1 4,645 24,145 7 5 I 11,586 £ «• d. 55,703 1 5 [873 i 3.562 3 2 1 34,288 142,642 4 IO 42 4 1011,913 48,547 11 4 6,150 28,068 5 5 i 52,351 219,258 1 7 :88 3 i g,o22 10 6 132,232 402,558 12 II 58 12 Il!26,2II I 91,634 4 7 14,113 46,939 17 II 1172,556 541,132 15 5 893 10,248 14 5 1146,133 ! 576,358 17 2 J 58 17 j 86,544 19 11 ' 35,208 88,025 s 9 210,957 750,929 5 10 894 :8 95 :8g6 :8 97 :8g8 :8gg :goo :goi 902 10,600 ig 7 II.433 13 8 12,671 6 7 13,835 15 4 14,747 9 & 15,533 4 6 16,512 12 9 17,518 11 o 14,915 18 2 155,534 ! 608,042 2 II 162,600 ] 635,062 17 III 181,505 I 717,217 19 ll 193,867 I 762,592 10 3 206,265 I 798,725 15 8 221,354 864,513 4 g 239,565 951,860 7 4 255,344 1,002,056 12 1 258,110 1,014,723 16 o 42 2 11128,513 1 79,348 10 2 38,631, 89,392 11 10 62 17 11128,882 ; 78,465 o 4 52,015 99,076 16 8 17 19 129,238 i 82,498 15 6 58,823102,443 1 o 92 10 33!,770 ! 93,649 1 3 68,002,114,589 3 5 25 15 835,377 1107,140 7 5 76,7281123,375 4 6 13 4 938,528 ,122,064 3 1 84,782132,230 17 9 60 7 440,925 122,934 i° 4 89,344140,057 18 9 156 12 145,701 125,549 5 n 104,9221158,902 3 i° 23 16 053,910 ji38,755 2 8 55,1871123,580 3 7 222,678 243.497 269,566 293.659 318,370 1 344,664 1 369.834 1 405.967 1 367,207 1 776,783 4 11 812,604 14 n 902,159 15 7 970,830 14 11 i,o2g,24i 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 :i,108,067 5 8 '67 5 863,309 157,789 16 o 59,4681150,367 10 8 396,312 1 1,416,224 12 4 904 905 1906 .907 :go8 ;go9 :gio ;gn 1912 16,385 9 o 17,073 9 6 18,278 10 3 18,846 12 6 12,555 10 3 13,782 14 o 14,300 7 9 115,307 7 7 16,398 16 2 281,655 ,1,148,226 3 o| 287,394 1,189,385 13 4I 301,650 1,312,27013 4' 305,424 1,389,800 4 4 | 338,752 1,611.968 4 II 383,283 1,841,030 7 7, 413,314 1,981,877 Z 2 444,169 2,262,366 2 6 493,345 2,702,469 8 7 26 3 0160,490 1165,245 o 8 65,638163,416 4 9 85 13 4l57,4i4 |i77,6o9 18 8 72,633174,716 7 10 70 13 4'6o,i20 1186,902 16 6 77,250187,057 12 1 00 4 193,356 5 3 77,498i9o,434 7 6 68 4 11167,384 1226,408 10 1 81,948212,307 11 10 30 7 774,893 1256,803 12 2 80,564209,758 18 4 77 1 279,651 1273,449 2 2 76,692202,196 14 1 66 2 688,364 1289,856 19 9 75,231207,170 6 2 69 8 798,452 1322,037 9 10 74,628206,842 16 1 407,783 1 417,441 1 439,020 1 441,487 I 488,084 [2 538,740 \i 569,657 |a 607,764 |2 666,425 3 1,476,887 8 5 1,541,711 19 10 1,686,231 1 11 1,773.59° 17 1 ;2,050.684 6 10 12,307,592 18 1 |2,457.522 18 5 12,759.393 8 5 j3.231.349 14 6 Drawn on the Dominion. Where issued. Where issued. Where issuert. United Kingdom and Foreign Australia and other British Offices. Possessions. Total. In the Dominion. Year. No. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. Amount. £ s. d. 9,169 4 6 / s. d. £ s. d. 415 1,824 08 558 3,077 13 7 3,040 / s. d. 14,070 18 9 1863 2,067 1873 34,288 142,642 4 10 1,482 6,625 14 5 1,668 7,689 6 8 37,438 156,957 5 11 1883 132,232 402,558 12 11 3,725 15,553 3 11 5,697 23,299 12 11 141,654 441,4" 9 9 1893 146,133 576,358 17 2 8,746 : 32,616 17 2 " 10,679 40,929 2 5 165,558 649,904 16 9 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 155,534 162,600 181,505 193,867 206,265 221,354 239,565 255,344 258,110 608,042 211 635,062 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 33.786 17 6 10,690 38,571 3 1 175.517 9.938 j 35,155 7 9 11,520 39,862 18 10 184,058 10,254 35.553 7 J ".507 40,836 4 7 203,266 10,085 35.238 10 3 11,407 4 0 > I0 5 1 11 215,359 10,671 36,106 9 10 12,753 44,558 10 10 229,689 10,624 37,290 8 7 13,399 48,533 15 11 245,377 10,342 36,014 6 3 15,271 59,304 9 6 265,178 11,082 40,021 14 4 16,688 63,800 4 10 283,114 11,732 41,370 13 3 16,527 \ 62,159 10 8 286,369 13,035 i 49,i8i 1 3 17,777 68,340 8 8 304,347 11,567 45,793 1 1 19,277 71,824 7 5 i 312,499 10,338 47,649 9 o 19,669 72,437 13 3 '■ 317,401 10.314 50,559 18 10 20,462 75,091 14 2 332,426 10.315 55,032 3 3 21,697 77,"8 8 9 337,436 10,970 58,499 19 11 21,886 80,500 4 3 371,608 11,783 61,289 17 2 : 23,592 82,409 13 2 418,658 11,954 63,196 12 3 j 24,172 82,501 9 2 449,440 11,866 65,074 8 o ' 27,561 07,532 4 8 483,596 13,'95 72,743 7 1 , 30,266 100,830 15 o 536.806 680,400 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 I903 273,535 ;i,108,067 5 ,8 1,225,588 15 7 1904 I905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 281,655 287,394 301,650 305,424 338,752 383,283 413,314 4441 l6 9 493,345 ii,i48,226 3 o 11,189,385 13 4 11,312,270 13 4 1,389,800 4 4 1,611,968 4 11 11,841,030 7 7 11,981,877 2 2 '2,262,366 2 6 2,702,469 8 7 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 1,984,729 17 11 2,127,575 3 7 2,424,972 15 1 2,876,043 to 8

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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 1911 and 1912.

Issued in New Zealand. 1911. Number. Amount. 191-2. Where payable. Where payable. 1911. Number. Amount. 191-2. Number. Amount. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices through United Kingdom United States of America .. Austria Canada Ceylon Fiji .. .. France Germany .. .. .. Hong Kong India New South Wales Norway Queensland Samoa South Australia Straits Settlements Tasmania Tonga Union of South Africa Victoria Western Australia £ s. d. 72,803 237,609 4 3 11,921 22,546 7 4 2,002 25,020 18 4 892 3,708 7 8 260 1.611 6 8 100 586 12 8 364 779 11 4 1,014 2,597 8 3 448 1,743 12 5 1,067 3,780 3 3 34,672 96,869 5 II 239 1,179 11 -I 2,807 HM82 0 7 21 123 18 11 1,730 5,303 2 11 38 115 5 11 6,225 14,424 18 5 43 267 8 0 534 2,237 11 3 24,412 62,135 14 U 1,937 5,204 io 0 £ s. d. 80,559 262,235 17 7 13,167 24,967 12 7 2,177 28,376 16 9 960 3,950 10 1 253 1,379 11 9 183 86!l 18 9 1,212 1,780 7 3 969 2.794 15 11 445 1,683 8 5 1,342 5,296 6 7 35,394 98,796 0 ;; 311 1,575 15 1 2.823 9.701 5 3 19 109 0 6 1.657 4,839 3 1 37 105 9 9 5,263 12,856 15 1 38 197 4 2 571 2,595 8 2 23,617 58,860 4 5 2.083 5.908 14 6 , , Totals 163,595 497,027 5 11 173.080 528.880 5 11 Drawn on New Zealand. i 1911. 1910 1912. Where issued. Where issued. 1911. Number. Amount. Amount. 1912. Number. Amount. Number. Amount. Amount. United Kingdom and Foreign Offices through United Kingdom United States of America Austria Canada Ceylon Fiji .. France Germany Hong Kong India New South Wales Norway .. .. .. Queensland .. .. .. Samoa South Australia Straits Settlements Tasmania Tonga Union of South Africa Victoria Western Australia 9,059 2,194 22 789 52 773 31 169 47 166 11,606 18 2,075 373 1,124 18 1,932 726 752 6,156 1,345 — £ s. d. 50,443 1 11 10,644 17 2 104 18 9 3,322 7 3 281 9 2 3,460 16 4 49 19 8 595 15 4 275 0 0 633 11 4 33,879 17 7 145 10 9 7,115 15 4 3,090 4 5 3,440 6 6 70 15 4 7,054 18 9 7,735 5 10 4,459 2 7 19,626 8 3 6,176 10 5 9,547 2.264 23 998 57 790 92 184 35 179 13,892 12 2,094 320 1,320 19 2.070 753 668 6,692 1,452 £ s. d. 51,260 1 4 9,816 3 9 181 3 4 4,345 19 3 383 16 10 3,426 8 11 168 7 7 742 11 4 134 3 11 754 1 6 41,132 12 4 29 3 3 7,139 8 3 1,709 16 4 4,280 3 7 57 10 6 8,136 15 9 8,836 0 2 3,829 14 9 20,011 1 2 7,198 18 3 Totals 39,427 39,427 162,606 12 8 162,606 12 8 43,461 173,574 2 1

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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, 1913.

Number of Postal Notes sold. Total. Year. At Is. 0(1. At 2s. At 2s. 6d. At 3s. At 5s. At 7e. 6d. At 10s. J j At 10s. At 12s. 6d. At 12s. 6d. At 15s. At 15s. j At 17s. 6d. At£l. At £5.* Number. Value, At Is. Quarter ended Mar. 31,1886 1886-87 1887-88 1888-89 1889-90 1890-91 1891-92 1892-93 1893-94 1894-95 1895-96 1896-97 1897-98 1898-99 1899-1900 1900-1901 1901-1902 1902-1903 1903-1904 .. • .. 1904-1905 1905-1906 1906-1907 1907-1908 1908-1909 1909-1910 1910-1911 1911-1912 1912-1913 3,019 16,605 22,467 27,428 32,754 35,915 42,416 48,612 56,761 62,306 68,454 74,534 81,958 86,529 93,762 85,478 49,529 54,268 61,379 65,484. 74,389 82,417 89,906 97,285 113,825 130,645 141,504 154,201 2,040 12,283 17,167 21,900 25,387 28,559 33,722 38,849 44,706 ■ 49,846 56,185 62,056 69,981 72,710 77,431 68,068 13,834 30,255 62,285 33,409 70,122 37,514 85,909 40,263 i 86,711 45,358 98,503 54,375 106,311 58,202 124,052 59,484 153,925 67,406 181,791 79,792 211,298 85,130 236,665 92,342 J264.844 1,012 6,647 9,162 11,912 14,478 16,092 19,383 22,038 25,461 28,975 32,801 35,322 38,617 41,991 44,384 52,691 70,683 76,613 86,626 96,228 108,493 120,321 136,392 : 162,588 : 195,168 : 244,941 ! 263,829 ! 279,311 ! 14,702 65,467 75,700 89,276 99,739 114,411 128,384 143,854 146,148 166,486 201,569 215,984 220,109 2,039 11,566 15,553 19,741 23,550 25,204 29,550 38,012 37,771 43,829 49,204 54,219 60,843 64,386 70,416 80,630 109,663 119,593 134,270 154,281 167,430 187,083 205,500 227,471 261,045 301,707 337,338 367,942 969 5,729 7,671 9,477 10,894 12,229 14,019 16,072 18,096 20,423 22,802 24,871 26,968 28,448 30,680 24,497 2,379 13,103 17,487 21,149 24,011 25,906 30,132 32,747 37,687 43,167 47,787 51,903 55,748 59,631 63,787 71,001 92,708 102,641 114,755 130,430 143,216 159,045 171,951 188,677 214,453 242,854 261,600 283,206 695 992 4,090 5,187 5,278 6,940 6,618 8,243 7,809 9,386 7,969 10,172 9,058 11,611 9,904 12,330 11,016 13,800 11,864 15,567 13,601 17,191 14,365 18,102 15,463 19,177 16,202 19,990 16,957 21,393 13,304 -23,875 32,128 ! 34,508 i 38,030 ; 42,317 46,228 ; 51,559 i 57,637 ' 62,916 7O,9f>7 82,253 " 88,693 95,535 425 2,806 2,375 14,961 2.952 ; 17,578 3,633 J 19,778 4,158 J 22,596 4,366 ! 23,503 4.953 I 25,839 5,369 j 28,969 6,156 ! 33,935 6,790 I 36,601 7,020 ! 1,192 7,406 I 32,868 1,090 7,904 32,179 728 8,193 32,696 673 8,539 33,491 607 6,799 35,067 560 43,042 556 48,852 558 58,629 i 656 69,206 688 76,508 788 91,198 954 104,714 128 123,786 143,611 171,900 190,823 213,153 16,442 92,546 122,255 149,879 175,023 189,915 220,683 247,902 285,389 319,368 349,627 376,796 409, 866 431,449 461,447 490,506 556,316 616,264 707,044 785,347 875,324 981,642 1,092,631 1,222,280 1,414,75-2 1,666,959 1,821,566 1,970,643 £ s. a. 6,90!) 15 6 37,659 7 0 47,729 5 0 56,841 18 0 65,484 2 0 69,721 18 6 79,325 16 6 87,856 18 0 101,002 7 « 112,307 10 0 123,368 6 6 129,011 18 0 134,378 9 6 139,957 4 0 147,686 8 6 154,435 Hi 6 173,317 5 0 191,904 13 0 220,069 11 0 250,123 7 6 •276,279 7 6 314,053 I) 0 347,300 0 0 389, 143 0 0 447,618 14 0 521,942 18 6 574,979 18 6 636,473 0 6 6 •Issued only from 17th June, 1895, to :Ust October, 1907

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Table No. 4. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the Money-order and Savings-bank Offices of New Zealand during the Year 1912.

Table No. 5. Statement showing the Number of British Postal Orders of each Denomination sold and paid in the Dominion of New Zealand during the Financial Years 1911-12 and 1912-13.

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P.— V. -24 Table No. 4. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the Moi during the Year 191 ney-order and Savings-bank Offices of New Zealand 12. Money-orders. Savings-banks. eiscc. Issued. Paid. « si < No. Deposits. 2 . Will 5*i3 si '■ < ° No. Withdrawals. thdrawals. Amount. No. I Commission. Amount. No. Amount. Amount. _ _ f I Postal District of— £ s. el. £ s. d. £ s. d.', £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland .. 163988 4.165 13 1 748.576 3 7 153231779.835 5 1 18804 166.0 II 2.482.279 9 10 10,856118120 2332913 7 7 Blenheim 9,168 188 7 8 43,702 2 2: 4,898 38,450 6 4 1.224 10.212 154,414 12 9 806 6,543! 146,513 2 4 Christchuich .. 60,999 1,640 6 7 320.130 5 10 58.193 335.050 13 4 10728 13S.22I 1.793.447 12 2 7,563 99.013,1791900 1 7 Dunedin .. 61,189 1.375 16 S 258.869 15 9 62,471309,128 17 S 7.615 100.845 1.317.101 5 6 5.730 65.313 1305577 11 10 Gisborne .. 17.207 144 13 7 91,001 13 9 6.739 45.5S7 6 0 3,066 25.559 317.315 9 5 2,004 17,804 308,966 4 8 Greymoutli .. 16,327 400 4 6 76,611 I 3 7.329 40,351 16 0 1.609 14,280 I SI.965 4 1 1.530 8,644| 206,736 5 9 Hokitika .. 3.639 75 1 0 17.675 17 7 2.388 10.958 5 2 399 2.743 43.798 14 3 265 1,656 45,267 16 5 InvercaiL'il! .. 31,683 665 9 5 131.922 7 6 18,748 84,409 5 0 3.364 31.2871 514,454 12 3 2.209 19,746 514,192 12 8 Napier .. .. 34,282 789 14 4 188.550 2 7 21,235 137,296 12 7 1.941 44,4211 583,392 8 3 3,217 26,843 574,170 9 9 Nelson .. .. 16,759 352 18 3 74.007 I 7 12,970 73,104 15 0 1,729 16.190 249,872 4 1 1,063 10,068,234,860 14 2 New Plymouth .. 18.925 1 400 14 0 91,272 13 I 12,511 78,273 17 8 2,345 19,8591 306,667 15 0; 1,709 13,018 302,120 0 11 Oamaru.. .. 9,612 180 3 9 74,028 0 7 4,427 25,527 9 11 937 8,8811 160,418 16 7 628 5,394 139,652 0 8 Thames .. 27,913 568 11 7 1 130,313 8 9| 13,024 68,360 0 6 i 2,567 2O,50ll 297,596 9 0! 2,25914,528 309,152 2 11 Timaru.. .. 18,355 38514 5 139.995 2 010,108 66.327 3102,671 24,048 388,81018 7; 1,848 16,00oj 378,580 10 11 Wanganui .. 47,739; 991 3 0 236,004 6 10 25.632 130,109 18 3 5,519 48,201 636,710 10 11 3,998 30,826! 625,526 19 3 Wellington .. 111127i 3,328 19 11 515,431 12 11 116733 608,048 I 4 16616 194,865 2,159,581 3 0 12,223 130098 209976112 3 Westport .. 17,513 445 4 2 92,957 18 9 5,493 39,703 8 3 1,892 11,735 137,355 10 9 988 5,770 133,819 9 11 Grand totals .. 666425; 16,398 16 23,231,349 14 6;536130 2870523 1 8186529 877.88911725182 16 5 58.89658938811449711 3 7 i Table No. 5. Statement showing the Number of British Postal Orders of each Denomination sold and paid in the Dominion of New Zealand during the Financial Years 1911-12 and 1912-13. Sold. Pair). Denomination'. 1911-12. 1912-lli. 1911-12. 1912-13. s. d. 0 6 2,189 2,486 183 23S 1 0 5,879 (1,363 843 1,009 1 6 2,608 -2,900 818 318 ■J ii 4,376 4,897 780 828 2 6 4,923 5,371 1,237 1,369 3 0 4,121 6,469 465 478 8 6 1,349 1,415 231 231 4 0 2,177 2,421 280 354 4 6 1,015 1,037 106 118 5 0 11,429 13.025 2,225 2,386 *5 6 .. .. 50 84 *6 0 .. 192 218 *6 6 .. .. 57 68 *7 0 .. 105 96 7 6 2,891 2,418 191 223 *8 0 .. .. 95 99 *8 6 .. .. 33 38 •9 0 .. .. 55 48 •9 6 .. 36 32 10 0 13,174 14,785 2,762 2,978 •10 6 .. ..' 116 124 •11 0 .. .. 68 57 •11 6 ... .. 50 34 •12 0 .. .. 93 120 12 6 1,297 1,278 148 163 •13 0 .. .. 62 63 •13 6 .. .. 43 41 •14 0 .. ..' 69 63 •14 6 •.. 35 24 15 0 3,485 3,726 688 751 •15 6 .. .. 30 20 •16 0 .. .. 51 35 •16 6 .. .. 26 24 •17 0 .. .. 38 22 17 6 637 687 57 47 •18 0 .. 44 47 •18 6 .. 27 24 •19 0 .. 43 40 •19 6 .. .. 10 88 20 0 27,478 81,328 10,897 10,850 •21 O .. ..- 565 610 Number 88,528 100,661 100,661 23,429 24,405 23,429 Value .. .. £45 687 10s. 6d. : £51,651 19s. 7d. £15,458 18s. 6d. £15.681 Is. 6d. • British Postal Orders of these denominations were withdrawn from issue at all offices in the Dominion on the st September, 1910.

P.— V. -24 Table No. 4. Table showing the Number and Amount of Transactions at the Moi during the Year 191 ney-order and Savings-bank Offices of New Zealand 12. Money-orders. Savings-banks. eiscc. Issued. Paid. « si < No. Deposits. 2 . Will 5*i3 si '■ < ° No. Withdrawals. thdrawals. Amount. No. I Commission. Amount. No. Amount. Amount. _ _ f I Postal District of— £ s. el. £ s. d. £ s. d.', £ s. d. £ s. d. Auckland .. 163988 4.165 13 1 748.576 3 7 153231779.835 5 1 18804 166.0 II 2.482.279 9 10 10,856118120 2332913 7 7 Blenheim 9,168 188 7 8 43,702 2 2: 4,898 38,450 6 4 1.224 10.212 154,414 12 9 806 6,543! 146,513 2 4 Christchuich .. 60,999 1,640 6 7 320.130 5 10 58.193 335.050 13 4 10728 13S.22I 1.793.447 12 2 7,563 99.013,1791900 1 7 Dunedin .. 61,189 1.375 16 S 258.869 15 9 62,471309,128 17 S 7.615 100.845 1.317.101 5 6 5.730 65.313 1305577 11 10 Gisborne .. 17.207 144 13 7 91,001 13 9 6.739 45.5S7 6 0 3,066 25.559 317.315 9 5 2,004 17,804 308,966 4 8 Greymoutli .. 16,327 400 4 6 76,611 I 3 7.329 40,351 16 0 1.609 14,280 I SI.965 4 1 1.530 8,644| 206,736 5 9 Hokitika .. 3.639 75 1 0 17.675 17 7 2.388 10.958 5 2 399 2.743 43.798 14 3 265 1,656 45,267 16 5 InvercaiL'il! .. 31,683 665 9 5 131.922 7 6 18,748 84,409 5 0 3.364 31.2871 514,454 12 3 2.209 19,746 514,192 12 8 Napier .. .. 34,282 789 14 4 188.550 2 7 21,235 137,296 12 7 1.941 44,4211 583,392 8 3 3,217 26,843 574,170 9 9 Nelson .. .. 16,759 352 18 3 74.007 I 7 12,970 73,104 15 0 1,729 16.190 249,872 4 1 1,063 10,068,234,860 14 2 New Plymouth .. 18.925 1 400 14 0 91,272 13 I 12,511 78,273 17 8 2,345 19,8591 306,667 15 0; 1,709 13,018 302,120 0 11 Oamaru.. .. 9,612 180 3 9 74,028 0 7 4,427 25,527 9 11 937 8,8811 160,418 16 7 628 5,394 139,652 0 8 Thames .. 27,913 568 11 7 1 130,313 8 9| 13,024 68,360 0 6 i 2,567 2O,50ll 297,596 9 0! 2,25914,528 309,152 2 11 Timaru.. .. 18,355 38514 5 139.995 2 010,108 66.327 3102,671 24,048 388,81018 7; 1,848 16,00oj 378,580 10 11 Wanganui .. 47,739; 991 3 0 236,004 6 10 25.632 130,109 18 3 5,519 48,201 636,710 10 11 3,998 30,826! 625,526 19 3 Wellington .. 111127i 3,328 19 11 515,431 12 11 116733 608,048 I 4 16616 194,865 2,159,581 3 0 12,223 130098 209976112 3 Westport .. 17,513 445 4 2 92,957 18 9 5,493 39,703 8 3 1,892 11,735 137,355 10 9 988 5,770 133,819 9 11 Grand totals .. 666425; 16,398 16 23,231,349 14 6;536130 2870523 1 8186529 877.88911725182 16 5 58.89658938811449711 3 7 i Table No. 5. Statement showing the Number of British Postal Orders of each Denomination sold and paid in the Dominion of New Zealand during the Financial Years 1911-12 and 1912-13. Sold. Pair). Denomination'. 1911-12. 1912-lli. 1911-12. 1912-13. s. d. 0 6 2,189 2,486 183 23S 1 0 5,879 (1,363 843 1,009 1 6 2,608 -2,900 818 318 ■J ii 4,376 4,897 780 828 2 6 4,923 5,371 1,237 1,369 3 0 4,121 6,469 465 478 8 6 1,349 1,415 231 231 4 0 2,177 2,421 280 354 4 6 1,015 1,037 106 118 5 0 11,429 13.025 2,225 2,386 *5 6 .. .. 50 84 *6 0 .. 192 218 *6 6 .. .. 57 68 *7 0 .. 105 96 7 6 2,891 2,418 191 223 *8 0 .. .. 95 99 *8 6 .. .. 33 38 •9 0 .. .. 55 48 •9 6 .. 36 32 10 0 13,174 14,785 2,762 2,978 •10 6 .. ..' 116 124 •11 0 .. .. 68 57 •11 6 ... .. 50 34 •12 0 .. .. 93 120 12 6 1,297 1,278 148 163 •13 0 .. .. 62 63 •13 6 .. .. 43 41 •14 0 .. ..' 69 63 •14 6 •.. 35 24 15 0 3,485 3,726 688 751 •15 6 .. .. 30 20 •16 0 .. .. 51 35 •16 6 .. .. 26 24 •17 0 .. .. 38 22 17 6 637 687 57 47 •18 0 .. 44 47 •18 6 .. 27 24 •19 0 .. 43 40 •19 6 .. .. 10 88 20 0 27,478 81,328 10,897 10,850 •21 O .. ..- 565 610 Number 88,528 100,661 100,661 23,429 24,405 23,429 Value .. .. £45 687 10s. 6d. : £51,651 19s. 7d. £15,458 18s. 6d. £15.681 Is. 6d. • British Postal Orders of these denominations were withdrawn from issue at all offices in the Dominion on the st September, 1910.

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Table No. 6.-POST OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.— GENERAL STATEMENT. Table showing the Business of the Post Office Savings-banks in the various Postal Districts in New Zealand during the Year ended the 31st December, 1912.

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Portal Districts I banks Open at [ the Close Number of PostOflice 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 ot Withdrawals during the Year. Average Amount of j Excess ot each Deposits over Withdrawal Withdrawals during during the Year, the Year. Excess ol Withdrawals over Deposits during the Year. Cost of Management during the Year. Average Cost of each Transaction, De- J posit or Withdrawal. 1 merest lor 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 Account", inclusive of Interest to the Close of the Year. Average Amount standing to the Credit of each Open Account at Close of the Year. Auckland ol the Year. 204 £ .-. .1. t 9. .1. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ a. d. 166,041 2.482.279 9 10 It 19 0 118.120 2.332,913 7 7 19 15 0 149,366 2 3 10.212 ir.4,414 12 9 15 2 5 6,543 146,513 2 4 22 7 10 7,901 10 5 138.221 1,793,447 12 2 12 19 l> 99,013 1,791,900 17 18 1 11 1,547 10 7 100.845 1.317,101 5 6 13 1 3 65,313 1,305,577 II 10 19 19 9 11,523 13 8 25,559 317,315 9 ."> 12 8 4 17,804 308,966 4 8 17 7 1 8,349 4 9 14.280 I81.96.-i -II 12 14 10 8,644 206.736 :> 9 23 18 4 .. 24,771 1 8 2.743 43.798 H 3 15 19 ,4 1,655 45,267 Lβ 5 27 7 1 .. 1,469 2 2 31,287 r>14.454 12 3 16 8 10 19,746 514,192 12 8 26 0 10 261 19 7 44.421 583,392 8 3 13 2 S 26,843 r>74.170 9 9 21 7 10 9,221 18 6 16,190 249,872 4 1 15 8 8 10,068 234,860 14 2 23 6 7 15,011 9 11 19,859 306,667 15 0 15 8 10 13,018 302,120 0 11 23 4 2 4.547 14 I 8,881 m>0.418 Iβ 7 18 1 3 5,394 139,652 0 8 25 17 10 20,766 15 11 20,501 297,596 9 0 14 10 4 14,528 309,152 2 11 21 5 7 .. 11,555 13 11 24,048 388,810 18 7 Iβ :! 4 16,005 378,580 10 1 1 23 13 1 10,230 7 8 48,201 636.710 10 11 13 4 2 30,826 625,526 19 3 20 5 10 11,183 11 8 194,865 2,159,581 3 0 11 1 8 130,098 2,099,761 12 3 16 2 10 59,819 10 9 11,735 137,355 10 9 11 14 1 5,770 133,819 9 11 23 3 10 3,536 0 10 £ d. £ 8. d. 90,065 14 1 18,804 10.856 75,303 7,616 2 7 1.224 806 8,700 80,280 14 0 10.728 7,663 70.699 71,204 6 10 7,616 5.730 51,155 10,277 1 4 3,066 2,004 10,839 11,015 10 6 ! 1,609 1,530 7,790 3,357 11 10 399 265 2,297 25.906 4 6 I 3,364 2.2(19 18.408 24,525 18 10 ; 4,944 :S.2I7 21,887 12,979 10 :S 1,729 1,063 10.738 13,314 7 6 2,345 1.709 10,896 8,163 12 1 937 628 5,431 14,620 15 2 L ; .5ii7 2,259 12,865 17,006 9 9 2.1171 1..S4S 13,003 24,371 2 8 5,519 3,998 23,426 90,061 0 10 :16,616 12,223 85,403 6,833 17 2 1,392 988 5,310 £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,962,194 17 1 39 6 9 Blenheim 13 242,537 5 10 35 17 7 Ohristchurch 72 2,562,701 19 4 36 5 0 Bunedin 05 2.240,745 7 10 43 16 I Quborne Greymouth 19 .. 16 336,033 9 5 31 0 I 335,723 0 0 43 I II Hokitika •• I 8 102,435 6 8 44 11 11 Invercargill 31 796,493 12 8 43 5 5 Napier .. « 78i 587 6 0 35 15 1 Nelson . . 23 12.t>75 ti 2 38 8 8 New Plymouth 18 414,282 8 38 0 8 Oaraaru.. .. 10 268,315 19 5 49 8 I Thames . . 25 444,563 Iβ 5 34 II 8 Timaru .. 16 538,825 13 7 41 s 9 Wan gun ui 52 775,764 -1 5 33 2 4 Wellington .. ,1 2,900,106 5 0 33 I!) 2 Wostport .. 20 214,271 12 0 40 7 1 Totals for 1912 ! 724 877,889 11,725,182 16 5 13 7 1 589,388 11,449,711 3 7 | 19 8 6 275,471 12 10 2£ 877,889 11,725,182 16 5 13 7 1 11,449,711 3 7 19 8 6| 275,471 12 10| 29,000 :9,000 4-74 4-74 511,598 18 8 85,529 58,896 432,199 511,598 18 8 85,529 58,896 432,199 16,330,257 8 2 | 37 15

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Table No. 6a.—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, 1912.

Number of PostOffice Savingsbanks Open at the Close 01 the I Year. Average Number of; ... , A Amount of Year. Vear - during the Year. Number of Withdrawals durine 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. Average Excess of .£«•■ ' «ch O1 Withdrawals *"* B . Transac over Deposits ™;." 1 tion, Deduring the Year. ,£*£_ posUor drawal. Interest lor the Year. Number of , Accounts j opened I ( during J the Year. <N umber of Accounts closed during the Year. .. Number of Accounts remaining Open at Close of the Year. Total Amount AmSK standing to the L*3"* «~sf Par-" Close of the Near. tnc Y< . ar Totals for 1912 .. 191 1 .. 1910 .. 1909 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 from 1st Feb. to 31st ' Dec, 1867 724 687 647 619 593 563 541 520 510 493 481 466 445 427 409 388 371 357 348 327 318 311 296 294 290 283 271 256 243 222 207 190 178 165 147 138 124 119 103 97 92 81 877,889 823,832 768,824 724,501 706,101: 650,990^ 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 M5.355 136,197 137,989 131,373 129,279 127, 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. hi 5 13 7 1 589,388 11,627,367 14 3 14 2 3 546,022 10,708,938 16 10 13 18 7 520,413 9,611,119 11 3 13 5 4 520,971 9,674.075 4 o 13 14 o| 484,672 9.351-663 19 7 M 7 4 433.796 7.9O7.I54 12 5 13 6 4; 386,536 ; 6,625,744 o to 13 o 3! 346,022 I 5,836,540 o o 12 8 6! 323,609 5,661,592 15 2 12 14 9 301,076 5,069,619 6 2 12 6 7 273,454 4,611,456 6 1 12 2 2 247,854 4,170,428 15 3 12 o 4 227,079 3,644,980 9 10 11 12 4 206,940 3,279,611 7 5 11 12 10 196,764 3,187,219 2 4 11 18 2 179,555 2,881,152 16 3 11 17 10 167,248 2,794,506 16 o 12 17 ii 159,904 2,252,862 6 11 11 o, 3! 152,136 2,386,089 10 7 11 15 ill 136,739 1,878,270 6 4 10 o 11! 120,628 1,842,987 15 2 10 8 3 111,603 1,658,543 3 5 10 3 6: 106,868 1,515,281 11 3 9 16 10 99,185! J .544. 747 7 " 10 12 6. 96,204 1,312,151 1 5 9 12 8 89,962! 1,248,405 6 11 9 o 11 89,182: 1,341,001 3 2 10 4 1 84,8321 1,227,909 11 4 9 9 11 So,800 i.i7 8 .474 4194s 78,405! t>325.852 2 11 10 4 o 69,308 1,189,012 2 7 9 8 11 60,137 864,441 18 10 10 11 9 57,440! 812,399 'I 11 11 6 1 54,6981 762,084 12 o 10 18 o! 42,746 681,294 13 2 II 3 6j 39,3631 664,134 12 6 11 !i 9 39,486! 657.653 4 o 11 14 4 36,977 699,249 M 3 13 5 8 29,778 580,542 5 5 14 16 2; 21,268 430,877 o o 13 12 o 17,254 312,338 18 4! 12 13 fii 14,773! 264,328 5 7 12 18 o 11,934 240,898 5 9 14 I 2| 9,292 '94,535 'I 6 14 18 III 6,365 96,372 7 to 13 16 3J 1,919 £ s. d. 11,449. 7" 3 7 10,662,045 15 2 9.695.514 16 1 9,499,3>9 16 4 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,S28 5 o 4.708.771 11 2 4,230,193 6 2 3,827,416 7 3 3,417,298 19 8 3. 1 94.893 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 1.195,931 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 3 I 3, I 76 7 IJ 261,347 l6 3 209,509 13 2 180,518 4 1 107,094 17 3 26,415 18 9 £ s d. 19 8 6 19 10 6 18 12 7 18 4 8 [9 s 8 18 14 7 !7 17 5 17 5 11 17 10 1 17 15 o 17 4 5 17 1 4 16 17 1 16 10 3 16 4 9! l6 2 O; 15 9 10 14 16 4 14 18 3 15 10 5 1520 15 3 5 14 o 9 14 13 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 2O O 5 18 3 o 17 13 9 17 11 1 19 8 7 16 16 6 13 15 3 £ ■■ d. 275,471 12 10 965,321 19 1 1,013,424 o 9 111,799 14 11 256,254 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 56,921 8 3 149,472 5 " 158,105 14 o 58,200 6 3 157,276 6 1 129,741 13 11 £ s. d. / s. d. i. d . s. d. £ s. d. 29,000 o 4,74 51 1 ,"598 18 s .-55,529 58,891 r 15 s 29,000 o 5 oS 472. 112 60,93 [ 5.543i I 86 8 6 6 00 0 5 j: ..=,66 57,69- [4,104,989 19 2 37 1 3 27,000: o 5-20 395.804 . :oo 55,763 359,71412,666,897 17 5! 35 4 3 27,000 o 5-4.) 379,808 6 r -,S2G 342, 077 12,159.293 18 1 35 10 ri 19,000 o 4-20 343-4 2 4 7 - 74. 6 7' 53,644; 319,773 11,523,2)0 17 9 36 0 9 17,000 : 9,953,265 II O 33 6 4 16,500 o 4-63 259,081 7 ' 76,066 8,662,022 i~ 1 31 7 C> 16.000 c -9i° 6 1 1,164 7-7 1 -"-.i'" , - ° I , 29 18 11 .130 2 8 57.047I 40,S3- iS 7 30 6 5 i.l.oooj o 4-90, 172,926 1 7 53,587 38,55s; 227,465 6,883,787 5 9 30 5 3 11,500' o 439 159,19s 4 o 50,046 35,018 212,436, 6,350,013 9 2 29 17 10 io,5oo ! o 439 146,169 i 29 8 7 00 0 -1 38 134,917 19 3 41,362 28,284: 183,046 5,.i-°,37° M I0 | 29 1 4 S.500 1 o 426 128,128 16 6 37,265 26,62!-! 169,968 4,957,77: - ■ 3 5 8,000 o 4-29 137,240 8 o 36,394; 24,821 159.331 4,744.924 l8 ' 2 9 '5 7 7,000 o 4-10 126,497 16 3 32,982 22,907 147,758' 4,311,634 13 5 29 3 7 7,000 o 445| 129,489 19 6 30,261 22,001 3,895,543 o 3 28 5 10 15,762 1 5 0,500 o 4-37; 114,643 4 21,930 129,423 3,34O,«7y " 4 25 16 3 6,500 o 460 114,760 1 1 29,755: 19,599 122.684J 3,241,998 8 6 5,500 o 429 111,301 13 1 26,232 18,17 2,863,670 12 10 25 9 0 5,000 o 416 104,098 17 o 25,131 17,872 104,467 2,695,447 11 6 25 16 o 5,000 o 445 92,319 o 6 23,719 • 7 2= 2 4 i 4,000 o 379' S4,8o9 17 1 21,778 15,521 00,745 2,191,451 14 1 24 2 11 4.000 o 397 78,080 6 o 21,307! 16,543 84,488 2,048,441 10 9 24 4 10 4.0001 o 4-24! 67,363 15 3 20,368 15,51= ',813,084 14 10 87,881 19 5 4,000 o 423 65,825 9 6 21,671 16,757 7-1. 8 ? 11 t>615, 979 9 6 2i 11 8 4,000! o 444 62,228 3 11 20,661 16,421 69,957: 1,638,035 19 5 23 8 4 4,000; o 457' 57,381 13 7 717 1,499, "2 o 7 22 16 3 117,245 14 2 4,000; o 466 56,046 17 15,967 61.936 1.409,751 16 7 22 15 2 4.000 o 482 54,9O9 '3 J1 21,014 14,505 57,517 1,470,950 13 6 25 11 5 3,500' o 452 42,204 19 o 25,059; 12,718 51,008 1,232,787 16 9 24 34 3,500 o 604 32,822 12 4 16,137: 12,217 38,667 903,765 16 10 23 7 6 63,781 7 ) 3.000, o 569 31,715 18 2 15,401; 12,786 34,747 787,005 >9 o 22 12 1 1 2,500 o 533: 31,664 12 9 13,005! 9,634 32,132! 819,071 8 2 25 9 <) 2,500 o 5-981 29,193 14 6 11,235 8,59i 28,761! 767,375 17 8 26 13 7 32,146 14 10 2,500 o 620; 28,762 4 9,472 26,117 723.910 17 5 27 14 4 72,106 13 9, 2,500 o 644 28,565 3 5 11,273 s , f) 8i 24,334 727.295 7 8 29 17 9 : 2,250 o 655 26,935 6 8 10,346 5,736 21,742. 770,836 18 o 35 9 o 1,800 o 714 20,106 16 10 7,382 3,816 17,132 664,807 5 10 38 16 1 1 ',556 o 7-63 14,711 o 5 6,205 3,'88 13,566' 490,066 7 o 36 2 5 1,351 o 823 11,291 10 10 4,615 2,383 10,5491 357,654 '4 6 33 18 1 1,264 o 9-36 9,242 3 11 4,304 2,277 8,317 295,372 1 7 35 10 3 : 1,186 o 1077 7,412 8 o 3,839 1,801 6,290 231,311 5 3 36 15 5 789 o 977 4,880 7 3 3,282: 1,186 4,252 163,518 15 7 38 9 1 822 1 1018 1,241 5 o 2,520: 364 2,156 71.197 14 1 33 ° 5 76,695 14 11 31,978 10 5 •• 183,253 2 10 286,817 o 11 83,937 5 6 20,030 17 9 14,271 5 9 .. 79,094 5 61 154,634 2 o 117,700 12 1 50,991 2 1 54,818 12 5 60,380 1 8 87,440 14 3 69,956 9 1 70 59 55 46

Table No. 7. Balance-sheet of the New Zealand Post Office Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1912.

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Money-order Accounts :— Money-orders (general) United Kingdom United States of America Australia Austria Canada Ceylon Fiji France Germany Hong Kong India Norway Samoa Straits Settlements Tonga Union of South Africa Commissi >n 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/c. ,, —-London a/ B.P.O. commission Postal revenue Telegraph Accounts :— New South Wales Telegraphs New Zealand and Australian Cable .. Pacific Cable Board Telephone-exchange receipts Special-messenger receipts Maintenance of private wires Registration of code addresses Cash deposits Telegraph revenue General Accounts :— Post Office Account Postmasters and Telegraphists Investments Accrued interest on investments Miscellaneous receipts (general) Foreign postage .*. ■ Balances on 1st January, 1912. Transactions. Cr. Dr. Cr. Dr. £ s. d. £ 8. d. £ a. d. £ s. d. 51,102 9 5 .. 3,407,379 10 2 3.400,267 8 9 i 25,663 10 11 .. 330,069 13 1 320,723 18 1\ 138 18 6 i .. 25,065 19 6 24,789 1 9 4,839 12 11J ' .. 201,221 0 3 I 198,927 2 2J 6,292 13 3 .. 28,448 9 6 31,519 14 8 60 3 2 4.621 18 0 \ 5,363 17 1 86 3 8 . 1,386 11 9 : 1,428 4 2 74 2 0 3,288 5 2 j 3,443 14 6 733 4 7 ... 1,789 5 4 1,647 9 1 1.364 7 11 .. 2,822 5 4 1.758 10 2 102 11 11 .. 1,693 3 5 1,556 18 10 1,729 7 4 .. 5,331 3 7 4,486 1 1 285 7 7 .. 1,579 13 10 1,408 7 9 1,455 18 0 2,044 9 3 ! 1,718 7 4 08 13 6 .. 106 0 4 143 17 7 4.044 13 6 8,696 13 2 8,858 2 0 89 19 4 3,818 15 10 3,887 19 10 442 12 7 2,454 17 2 2,490 1 7 15,543,186 16 8 . 12.236,781 15 I 11.449.7)1 3 7 6,424 2 7 .. 934,448 17 11 934.305 5 1) 194,245 2 Hi . 983,387 11 7 962,833 14 6J 13 7 4 683 6 8 657 1 9 119,612 7 5 . 647,039 7 0 622,330 18 7 12,851 6 10 12,851 6 10 16,629 19 2 16,629 19 2 24,852 14 2 . 54,662 10 0 49,580 0 0 20,733 Oil .. 49,580 0 0 49,914 17 3 16 1 11 49,437 II 7 49.421 9 3 554 IS 7 554 18 7 1.40(1 12 .-)| 042.828 4 5 030.379 0 0 541 10 2 .. 18,429 0 I 17,987 2 5 262 16 11 . (1.857 6 1 6,893 7 3 1.779 3 3 . 52,758 0 9 50,304 0 11 1.15.633 2 10 155,633 2 10 497 0 3 497 6 3 3,775 11 11 3,775 11 11 I ,740 10 10 1,740 16 10 200 3 11 .. 13,138 15 Hi 12,327 16 6£ - <3.680 10 0.} ., 552,739 4 5i 555,781 9 7} 4415, 00!) 5 7 10,405,720 0 3 11,272,227 18 1.1 558,851 19 \{ 22,700,389 5 2 22,717,690 14 10 15,269,509 10 7" 3,527,566 0 0 4,559,666 0 0 163. 820 3 5 103,826 3 5 180.063 13 7 1.U49 .i 11 .. 17.019 0 3$ I6.&32 17 10 14,924 12 9 .. 2(1.739 0 11 l>4.432 12 8 balances on 31st December, 1912. Cr. Dr. £ s. d. £ 58,214 10 10 35,009 10 7 415 16 3 7,133 11 0 3,221 8 1 802 44 11 3 229 875 0 10 2,427 17 1 238 16 6 2,574 9 10 456 13 8 J, 12<t 30 16 3 4,206 159 477 16,330,257 8 2 6,567 14 7 214,799 0 0 39 12 3 144,320 16 4 29,935 4 2 '.'. 20,398 12 8 0 0 5 I,988 11 11 j 983 7 10 226 15 9 4,233 3 1 1,077 3 4 '.'. 3,018 4 10J 309,571 570,153 16,301,669 180,063 4,235 12 4J 11,231 10 £ s. A. 802 2 3 229 11 4 1 ,129 16 7 4,206 2 4 159 3 4 477 17 0 l>1 309,571' 4 :, 570,153? 8 9, 16,301,669 19 7 180,063 13 7

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Table No. 7 — continued. Balance-sheet of the New Zealand Post Office Account for the Year ended 31st December, 1912—continued.

General Post Office. Wellington. 18ch April. 1913.

Balances on 1st January, 1912. Transactions. Balances on Hist December, 1912 I I Cr. Cr. Dr. iii- ( r. Dr. Or. Di I General Accounts — continued. Foreign Mail Settlement Account . . Miscellaneous expenses Discount stamps For other Departments :— Advances to Settlers Arms Act licenses Audit fees Clerks of Court County Clerks Customs dues (H.M.C.) Customs duty (parcels) Education Department Electoral receipts Factories Act Fishing licenses Game licenses Goldfields revenue Government Insurance Government Printer Homing-pigeons Protection Act Imperial pensions Income-tax Land-tax Licensing Act Machinery Marine light dues Military Pensions Mining Act National Provident Fund receipts . . New Zealand Consols Old-age pensions .. „ Miscellaneous Public Trust „ Service Superannuation Registration of births, &c. Rents .. Sanatorium, Hanmer Springs Stock Department Valuation revenue Widows Pensions Miscellaneous revenue Suspense Account Profit and loss £ s. d. 33,871 19 4 2.056 8 0 28.875 18 8 3 0 0 4 6 8 10 12 0 13 11 6 7.112 13 6 0 8 0 +1 17 6 7 0 6 1 .1179 7 2 1 6 9 8,718 18 5 155 14 6 2.183 3 10 615 7 6 0 3 4 427 5 0 242 18 2 26.867 8 8 +1.420 18 2 235 15 6 3 4 2 138 4 1 4 10 0 238 5 0 2 10 259,769 15 6 £ s. s. d. d. £ s. d. 17,655 7 4 1,543,020 18 5 960 0 0 £ s. d. 17,655 7 4 1.519,023 2 11 1,019 9 0 £ s. d. 57,869 14 10 1,996 19 0 £ s. d I 2,656,116 5 S 179 0 0 • 5 6 8 137 13 4 266 16 9 1,176 1 4 77.311 14 9 1 0 0 2 8 0 46 14 0 1,180 2 6 3,876 16 0 130 13 8 29,490 5 6 15 9 6 0 1 0 28,750 18 10 277,529 11 1 543,739 10 9 20 0 0 9.901 7 6 104 13 2 1.500 0 0 175 15 0 5,381 13 4 2,120 0 0 416,500 0 0 ! 1 11 8 ! 958,745 9 8 ' 100,839 19 10 2,723 4 0 304 5 10 2,295 2 9 283 16 0 ! 6,096 6 8 ; 20,800 0 0 20 1 4 729,6il 2 2 2.672,578 18 7 178 0 0 9 13 4 114 18 2 180 15 2 1,111 6 8 76,266 0 6 1 0 0 2 16 0 46 14 0 1,110 0 0 3,876 16 0 123 11 1 30,110 13 10 16 15 3 0 1 0 28,650 18 9 277,655 0 0 495,255 0 0 20 0 0 '.'.555 15 0 99 19 10 206 5 0 236 10 0 5,441 17 7 2,120 0 0 413.530 5 0 1 11 8 975,877 10 11 99,674 6 7 2.653 1 6 298 19 8 2,166 11 7 288 5 0 6,285 1 2 18.527 5 9 24 10 3 705,623 3 3 12,413 5 9 4 0 0 33 7 2 86 1 7 78 6 2 8,158 7 9 ii2 0 0 i4 3 1 1,358 18 10 0 1 0 6,918 18 6 30 5 7 50,667 14 7 961 0 0 4 16 8 1.293 15 0 366 10 0 182 13 11 29,837 3 8 24,288 16 11 1,165 13 3 305 18 0 8 10 4 266 15 3 49 10 6 2,272 14 3 1 11 1 2 1 0 283,157 14 5 * Totals 16.442,961 11 2 Iβ 16,442,961 11 2 !.442, 961 11 2 65,745,961 8 HJ 65.745,961 8 2J J 17,368,462 19 0$ 17,368,462 19 0,

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Table No. 8. Securities, etc., standing in the Name of the Postmaster-General on Account of the Post Office Savings-bank Fund on the 31st December, 1912.

Description of Securities Nominal Value. CoBt-price. Accrued Interest on 31et December 1912. The Aid to Public Work* and Land Settlement Ace 1900 Debentures, 4 per oent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1900 Debentures,"3J per cent. The Aid to Public Worke and Land Settlement Aot 1901 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1901 Debentures, 3$ per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1901 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1902 Debentures, 3f per cent. The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1903 Debentures, 4 per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1903 Debentures, 4 per cent. The Aid to Public Works Mid Land Settlement Act J903 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1906 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Aot 1906 Debentures, 3$ per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1906 Debentures, 3£ per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1906 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 1907 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Aid to Public Worke and Laud Settlement Act 1908 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Aid to Publio Works and Land Settlement Act 1909 Debentures, 4 per cent. The Aid to Public Works and Land Settlement Act 11)11 Debentures, 3| per cent. The Aid to Water-power Works Act 1910 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Appropriation Act 1912 Debentures, 3$ per cent. Canadian Stock, 3 per cent. Canadian Stock, 2$ per cent. Cape of Good Hope Consolidated Siook, per cent. The Coal-mines Act 1908 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Coal-mines Act 1908 Debentures, 3| per cent. '.. The Consolidated Loan Act 1867 Debentures, 4 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, 3J per cent. The Dairy Industry Act 1898 Debentures, 3J per oent. The Dairy Industry Act 1898 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Defence and other Purposes Loan Art 1870 Debentures, 4 per cent. The Defence and other Purpose* Loan Act 1870 Debentures, 3j per cent. Dunedin Garrison Hall Debentures, 4J per cent. The General PurpoeesLoan Aot 1873 Debentures, 4 per oent. .. The Government Advances to Settlers Aot 1906 Debentures, 34 per cent. The Government Advances to Settlers Act 1908 Debentures, 4 per cent. The Government Advances to Settlers Kxtension Act 1901 Debentures, 3£ per cent. The Government Advances to Workers Act 1906 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Government Loans to Looal Bodies Aot 1886 Debentures, 3£ per cent. The Government Railways Aot 1908 Debentures, 3£ per cent. .. The Government Railways Act 1908 Debentures, 4 per cent. .. The Government Railways Act 1908 and Finance Act 1909 Debentures, 4 per cent. The Government Railways Act 1908 and Finance Act 1909 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Government Railways Amendment Act 1910 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Government Railways Amendment Aot 1910 Debentures, 3} per cent. The Government Railways Amendment Aot 1910 Debentures, 3J per cent. lireymouth Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. Hamilton Borough Debentures, 4J per cent. The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Acts 1903 and 1905 Debentures, 3J per cent. £ >. d. 200 0 0 56,500 0 0 32,600 0 0 2,500 0 0 8,100 0 0 128,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 170,100 0 0 61,525 0 0 51,750 U 0 500,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 8,650 0 0 200,000 0 0 60,000 0 0 300 0 0 50,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 5,000 0 0 12,666 15 11 200 0 0 40,000 0 0 110,000 0 0 13,000 0 0 194,200 0 0 283,500 0 0 166,000 ii 0 438 0 0 1,343 0 I) 7 r ),000 0 0 £ s. d. 2C0 0 0 56,500 0 0 32,600 0 0 2,500 0 0 8,100 0 i) 128,000 0 0 1,000 0 0 170,100 0 0 61,525 0 ii 51,750 0 0 500,000 0 0 10,000 (J 0 8. (WO 0 0 •200,000 0 0 50,000 1) II 300 0 0 50,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 4,800 0 0 10,133 8 9 186 1 3 40,000 0 0 110,000 0 0 12,480 0 0 194,200 0 0 •283,500 0 0 165,000 o 0 438 0 0 1,343 0 0 72,000 0 0 £ a. d. 1 6 3 325 1 4 .070 10 0 7 3 10 24 19 8 394 10 4 20 0 0 2,888 8 y 1,076 13 9 905 19 6 8,750 0 0 175 0 (J 169 3 9 3,500 0 0 436 6 U 6 0 0 15) 1 -1 174 18 1 34 18 7 75 0 U 88 3 9 3 14 1 349 0 9 1,028 8 4 109 13 II 3,032 14 1 3,289 7 4 1,914 8 11 6 7s 19 11 (; 682 17 6 8,100 0 0 H.100 0 0 141 15 0 4,000 0 0 5,200 0 0 105,000 0 0 4,000 0 0 4,342 0 0 105,000 0 0 77 18 4 43 17 7 302 1 1 12,900 0 0 12,964 10 0 ■258 0 0 80,000 0 0 80,000 0 (I 230 '2 9 25,000 0 0 25,000 0 I) 71 18 i 231,500.0 0 '231,500 0 0 2,686 0 6 85,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 100 0 0 85,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 100 0 0 1 13 a 50,000 0 0 50,000 0 n 50,350 0 0 50,350 0 0 733 17 4 11,150 0 0 11,150 0 n 195 2 6 10,000 0 0 10,000 0 0 187 10 0 240,000 0 0 3,000 0 0 100,000 0 0 •240,000 0 0 3,000 0 0 100.000 0 0 4,757 5 2 56 4 4 575 6 9

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Table No. 8 -continued. Securities, etc., standing in the Name of the Postmaster-General, on Account of the Post Office Savings-bank Fund on the 31st December, 1912 — continued.

Description of Securities. Nominal Value. Cost-price. Accrued Interest on 81st December, 1912. £ a. d. j £ s. d. The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Act 1905 Deben- 50,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 tures, 3J per cent. The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Act 1907 Deben- 10,00(1 0 0 10,000 D 0 tures, 4 per cent. The Hutt Railway and Hoad Improvement Act 1907 Deben- 07,000 0 0 07.000 0 0 tures, 34 per cent. The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Act 1907 Deben- 27,590 U 0 27,590 0 0 tureo, 3$ per cent. The Hutt Railway and Road Improvement Act 1910 Deben- 15,000 0 0 15,000 0 0 tures, 34 per cent. The Immigration and Public Works Loan Aot 1870 Deben- 20,900 0 0 ; 20,527 10 0 tures, 44 per cent. The Immigration and Public Worka Loan Act 1870 Deben-! 175,300 (I 0 108,372 0 0 tures, 4 per cent. India Stock, 3J per cent. .. .. .. .. .. 216 14 5 213 18 9 India Stock, 3 per cent. .. .. .. .. .. 52 13 9 45 15 0 Inscribed Stock, 34 per cent. .. .. .. .. 018,000 0 0 618,000 0 0 Inscribed Stock, & par cent. .. .. .. .. 2,360,495 11 1 2,244,582 18 0 Irish Land Stock, 2| per cent. .. .. .. . 100 0 0 I 89 15 0 The Land for Settlements Act 1908 Debentures, 4 per cent. .. 300 0 0 ' 300 0 0 The Land for Settlements Act 1908 Debentures, 4 per cent. 400 0 0 400 0 0 The Land for Settlements Act 1908 Debentures, 3J per cent. .., 76,150 0 0 76,150 0 0 The Land for Settlements Act 1908 Debentures, 34 per cent. .. 62,000 0 0 62,000 0 0 The Land for Settlements Act 1908 Debentures, 34 per cent. .. 27,000 0 0 27,000 0 0 The Land lor Settlements Consolidation Act 1900 Debentures, 1.700 0 0 4,700 0 0 34 per cent. The Land for Settlements Consolidation Aot 1900 Debentai 2,400 0 0 1,400 0 4 per cent. The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900 Debentures, 20,000 11 0 30,000 0 0 4 per cent. The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900 Debentures, 10,650 0 0 10,660 0 0 34 per cent. The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act 1900 Debentures, >.0<X) 0 u 'i.OOO 0 0 34 per cent. The Lands Improvement and Native Lands Acquisition Act 389,000 0 0 839,000 0 0 1894 Debentures, 34 per cent. The Local Bodies'Loans Act 1901 Debentures, 34 per cent. .. 100,000 0 0 100,000 0 0 The Local Bodies'Loans Act 1908 Debentures, 34 per cent. .. 785,000 0 0 785,000 0 0 The Local Bodies'Loans Act 1908 Debentures, 3£ per cent. .. 150,000 0 0 150,000 (1 0 The Local Bodies'Loans Act 1908 Debentures, 34 per cent. .. 786,000 0 0 7S(i,000 0 0 The Local Bodie:.' Loans Act 1908 Debentures, 3£ per cent. .. 50,000 0 0 00,000 0 0 The Maori Land Settlement Act 1905 Debentures, 34 per cent. 25,650 0 0 25,650 0 0, The Maori Land Settlement Act Amendment Act 1907 Oeben- 50,000 0 0 50.000 0 0 tures, 3i per cent. The Native Land Purchase Act 189'2 and New Zealand Leans 1-25.000 0 0 125,000 0 0 Act 1908 Debentures, 3| per cent. New South Wales Stock. 34 per cent. .. .. .. 27,000 0 0> 26,865 0 0 The New Zealand Consols Act 1110S I lohrntures. 4 per cent. .. 400 0 0 400 0 0 The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances \ct L909 Oehen- 400,000 0 0 100,000 0 0| tures, 34 per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1909 Deben- 1,918,600 0 0 1,918,600 0 0 ! tures, 34 per cent. The New Zealand Land for Settlements Act 1908 and State- 14.925 0 0 44,936 0 0 guaranteed Advances Amendment Aot 1910 Debentures, 34 per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 99,0oo 0 0 99,000 0 0 and the New Zealand Loans Aot L908 (Land for Settlamen 1 Branch) Debentures, 34 l' et fi ent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Adviii.c, I and 1910 8,000 0 0 8,000 0 0 (Land for Settlements Branch) Debentures, 3J per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and in 10 64,850 0 0 84,860 0 0 (Land for Settlements Branch) Debentures, i>4 per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 15,800 0 0. 15,800 0 0' (Land for Settlements Branch) Debentures, 3J per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 13,850 0 0 12.350 0 0 (Land for Settlements Branch) Debentures, 3J per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1!)09 and 1910 21,500 0 0 21,500 0 0 (Land for Settlements Brands) Debentures, 3J per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 741,066 0 0 711,060 0 0 (Land for Settlements Branch) Debentures, 3} per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1909 (Land 410,0oo 0 0 410,000 0 0 f. r Settletnei.ts Branch) Debentures, 3| per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 750,000 0 0 750,000 0 0 (Advances to Settlers Branch) Debentures, 3} per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 205,000 0 0 -205,000 0 0 (Advances to Workers Brunch) Debentures, 34 per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1909 (A.I- loo.000 o 0 100,000 0 0 vances to Workers Brunch) Debentures, 'S$ per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Acts 1909 and 1910 50,000 0 0 50,000 0 0 (Native Lands Settlement Branch) Debentures, 3| percent. £ a. d. 287 13 5 65 15 1 385 9 6 402 2 8 218 12 7 198 S 1 1,479 4 9 1 18 4 0 7 10 10,815 0 0 18,885 2 10 1 19 11 6 0 0 6 13 3 1,332 12 6 541 0 3 155 6 10 94 0 0 89 19 6 199 9 0 155 4 tj 87 10 D 2,990 12 8 1,160 5 5 9,108 2 t; 1,740 8 1 9.119 14 7 143 16 8 448 17 6 875 0 0 783 7 9 340 16 8 1 8 11 3,490 7 11 16,741 13 8 78e; 8 :i 86:t 17 6 16 0 tl 1.134 17 6 94 li 8 28 111 3 886 15 0 4.644 6 10 3,888 t a 5,816 15 2 8,587 10 0 984 18 7 467 9 4

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Table No. 8—continued. Securities, etc., standing in the Name of the Postmaster-General on Account of the Post Office Savings-bank Fund on the 31st December, 19l2— continued.

Table No. 9. Post Office Savings-bank Receipts and Payments for the Year ended 31st December, 1912. Dr. £ t. d. Or. £ s. d Balance to credit of depositors on 1st Withdrawals during 1912 .. 11,449,711 3 7 January, 1912 .. .. 15,543,186 16 8 Balance to credit of depositors on 31st Deposits during 1912 .. .. 11,725,182 16 5 December, 191-2 .. .. 16.330.257 8 2 Interest credited to depositors, 1912 .. 511,598 18 8 £27,779,968 11 9 £27,779,968 11 9 Liabilities and Assets. Dr. £ s. d. Or. £ s . d Balance to credit of depositors on 31st Securities .. .. .. .. 16,301,669 19 7 December, 1912 .. .. .. 16,330,257 8 2 Balance uninvested .. .. .. 311.745 3 0 Balance of assets over liabilities 283,157 14 5 £16,613,415 2 7 £16,613,415 2- 7 Profit and Loss Account. Dr. £ s. d. Gr. £ s. dInterest credited to depositors during 1912 511,598 18 8 Balance forward, 1st January, 1912 .. 259,769 15 6 Interest paid on debentures purchased by Interest received during £ s. d. Department '.. .. .. 218 17 10 the year .. 547,256 18 11 Paid Public Account, for cost of Savings i Accrued interest on 31st bank management .. .. .. 29,000 0 ol December, 1912 .. 180,068 13 7 Purchase of home savings-banks .. 979 3 4 - Balance to next acoount .. .. 283.157 14 5 727,320 12 6 Less accrued interest on 31st Deoember. 1911 .. 163,826 3 5 563,494 9 1 Sundry receipts .. .. 1,690 9 8 £824,954 14 3 £824,954 14 3

Description of Securities. Nominal Value. Accrued Interest Oost-prioe. on sist December, 1912. e s. d. ' The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1909 (Native 54,500 0 0 Lands Settlement Branch) Debentures, 3| per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1909 (Local 10,000 0 (i Authorities Branch) Debentures, 3f per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1909 (Local 275.000 0 0 Authorities Branch) Debentures, 3$ per cent. The New Zealand State-guaranteed Advances Act 1900 (Gua- 00 0 0 ranteed Mining Advances Branch) Debentures, 3f per cent. Oamaru Borough Consolidated Loan 1898 Debentures, 5 per cent. I:-),sou 0 0 Patea Harbour Board Debentures, 41 per cent. 30,000 0 0 The Post Office Savings-bank Fund Investment Act 1007 125,000 0 0 Debentures, 3J per cent. The Post and Telegraph Aot 1908 Debentures, 81 per oent. 75,000 0 0 The Railways Improvement Authorization Act 1907 Debentures, 25,000 I) 0 31 per cent. The Reserve Fund Securities Act 1907 Debentures, 31 per cent. 800,000 0 0 The Scenery Preservation Aot 1908 Debentures, :i.l nci .-cut. 10,000 0 0 The Scenery Preservation Act 1908 Debentures, 8j per cut. .. 20,000 0 0 South Australian Stock, 4 per cent. .. .. .. 1,772 16 2 South Australian Stock, 3J per cent. .. .. 12,000 0 0 Thames Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. .. 10,000 0 Oj Timaru Borough Council Debentures,4 perceni. .. 4,000 0 0 Victorian Stock, 3 per cent. .. .. .. 12,379 19 10 The Waihou and Ohinemuri Rivers Improvement Aot 1910 100,000 0 0 Debentures, 3J per cent. Wellington City Council Debentures, 4 per oent. .. 100,000 0 0 Wellington City Council Debentures, 4 per cent. .. 25,000 0 0 Wellington Harbour Board Debentures, 4J per cent. .. 28,700 0 0' Wellington Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. .. .. 24,000 0 0 Westport Harbour Board Debentures, 4 per cent. .. .. 489,500 0 0 Accrued interest on Post Office Account L s. d. £ s. d. . 00 ii 0 .oo 10 9 L0.000 0 0 9 11 275,0(10 (i 0 2,899 18 0 5,000 0 0 i(> 14 11 18,800 0 'i 318 0 0 30,000 0 0 536 6 0 125.000 0 0 2,187 10 0 75,000 0 0 1,812 10 0 000 0 0 800,000 0 0 11,660 6 0 10,000 0 0 280 2 8 20,000 0 0 123 5 9 1,861 9 0 19 15 0 11,760 0 0 'io 0 0 10,000 0 0 99 14 6 4,000 0 0 80 0 0 10,708 13 10 196 10 6 100,000 o 0 1,457 10 7 99,000 0 0 2,000 0 0 24,500 0 0 500 0 0 28,700 0 0 417 14 5 24,000 0 0 216 13 4 489,500 0 0 9,790 0 0 629 18 3 Totals .. .. .. .. 16,335,421 11 2 1( 16,335,421 11 2 16,301,669 19 7 6,301,669 19 7 I 180,063 13 7 180,063 13 7

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Table No. 10. Return showing the Total Number of Post Office Savings-bank Accounts remaining open on 31st December, 1912, classified according to the Balance at Credit of each Account.

Table No. 11. Old-age Pensions. Return showing the Number and Amount of Old-age Pension Payments made each Month for the Two Years ended 31st March, 1913.

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

Not Kxceedmg Exceeding Postal Distrlol exceeding £20 and £50and £20. up to £50. up to £100. I ' Exceeding Exceeding Exceeding ±■100 and £200 and £300 and up to £200. up to £300. up to £400. Exceeding .£400 and up to £500.1 BxceecUng *©g £500 and g'W up to £600. H oe H.S Total Number oi Account* open. Aucklanel .. 56,501 Blenheim . . 5,027 Christehuivli.. '■ 51,504 Dunedin 34.378 Gisbornc . . 7,925 Greyinouth .. 5,483 Hokitika 1,601 [nveroargill .. 12,284 Napier 15,738 Nelson 7.498 New Plymouth ] 7,785 Oamarn .. 3.409 Thames 9.462 Timaro .. 8,793 Wanganni . . 17,314 Wellington .. 62.969 Westpori .. 3.71s Totals, 1912 311,389 I 6,502 4,337 3,974 1,748 996 468 373 404 640 388 335 160 99 52 ' 36 23 7,137 4,714 3,824 1,697 802 159 324 238 5.725 4,084 3,497 1.620 907 414 l 298 232 1.198 748 535 230 94 Mi 31 32 730 5.17 526 222 138 Uii 49 39 217 146 147 1(14 39 22 ; 12 9 : 2,198 1.513 1,285 551 :!<>] 163 73 60 2,183 1.7(13 1,156 544 269 122 87 80 1,217 S13 610 289 134 si 57 36 1,116 7l(i (171 315 148 71 :ili 34 720 4S»; 428 IXII 93 55 35 25 1,251 84(1 ii(14 291 Kid 88 56 13 1,681 1,041 804 : 383 197 97 (19 38 1 2,462 1,6*6 1.079 ! 511 246 117 104 (14 S.54I 5.573 1,336 1,834 980 190 357 323 534 437 321 160 H4 16 23 17 75,303 6,760 70.699 51,155 10,839 7,790 2,297 18.408 21,887 10,738 10.895 5,431 12,855 13,003 23,426 85,403 5.310 43,952 29,602 24,195 110,832 5,667 2,850 I 2.020 I .1192 42,266 ! 28,061 23,162 10,277 5,274 2,750 , 1.980 1,639 432,199 405,566 Totals, 1911 290,157

Month. April May June July August September October ... November December January ... February... March _.. 1911-12. Number , Numbor of Payments, j Amount. 0 f Payments. £ s. d. 15,907 33,328 12 11 16,547 16,152 33,774 6 4 16,776 ... i 16,011 33,482 16 10 16,601 16,145 33,744 15 0 16,793 16,181 33,798 18 5 16,783 16,152 33,706 10 11 16,670 16,184 33,742 5 4 16,777 16,307 34,002 1 2 16,817 20,147 42,039 6 7 19,419 12,578 26,146 16 2 13,764 16,399 34,169 17 0 16,392 16,460 34,319 9 8 16,449 1912-13. Amount. £ 8, d. 34,472 0 10 34,974 17 7 34,595 13 4 34,941 0 0 34,901 15 9 34,706 0 1 34,903 17 7 34,953 1 0 40,445 16 0 28,569 5 9 34,078 14 2 34,218 12 10 Totals 194,623 406,255 16 4 199,788 415,760 14 11

i-i^ —. Auckland... Blenheim... Christchurch Dunedin ... Gisborne. ... Greymouth Hokitika ... Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru ... Thames ... Timaru .. Wanganui Wellington Weatport... Postal Distriot. r Number of Payments. 41,091 2,368 32,591 28,864 1,490 6,304 6,292 ll->866 7,448 3,827 3,572 3,822 6,684 7,730 6,485 20,928 3,261 & s. a. 85,157 11 3 42,013 4,971 15 2 2,378 68,159 10 1 34,404 59,996 10 0 29,265 2,973 4 11 1,607 13,392 9 8 6,105 13,384 4 5 6,141 24,834 15 8 12,062 15,534 8 3 7,607 8,100 7 1 3,918 7,309 15 1 3,619 7,990 3 1 3,945 14,111 3 11 6,602 16,285 9 8 8,217 13,688 12 0 6,628 43,435 18 6 '22,103 6,929 17 7 3,174 \uiniiiit. £ s. d. 87,161 19 5 5,022 16 1 71,788 14 6 60,369 14 9 3,270 18 0 13,004 8 2 13,108 16 11 25,076 13 5 15,795 14 1 8,241 4 8 7,404 2 5 8,231 0 3 13,732 3 1 17,148 16 4 13,810 16 5 45,829 0 2 6,763 16 3 Totals 194,623 406,255 16 4 199,788 415,760 14 11

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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, 1912.

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Posted in the Dominion. Delivered in the Dominion. Total posted and delivered. Pos , *"""" 38 - Books, Ac. Newspapers. Parcels. Letter-cards P° et - Carae - Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Le e tte e r"a a ras. | Post-cards, j Books, *e. p^r,\^^Auckland .. 23,667,968 1,218,529 Blenheim .. 1,422.426 77,246 Christchurch .. 13,128,946 623,402 Dunedin .. 11,346,070 627,757 Gisborne .. 1,648,065 98,215 Greymouth .. 1,127,949 32,253 Hokitikii .. 527,503 23,465 Invercargill .. 5,258,430 281,190 Napier .. 6,355,786 287,768 Nelson .. 2,170,086 124,904 New Plymouth.. 2,478,159 102,076 Oamani .. 1,373,939 74,958 Thames .. 2,194,609 102,726 Timaru .. 3,375,289 180,128 Wanganui .. 5,384,421 254,982 Wellington .. 23,777,501 1,059,760 Westport .. 803,716 24,206 6,973,964 381,478 3,429,639 3,951,028, 543,883 183.. ■")].") 103.294 986,971 l<804.446 563,227 501,876 236,711 431,476! 714,503 1,286,1101 8,894,453 140,642 I 4,264,232 297,011 2,720,576 1,859,663 637,802 288,938 137,540 694,022 992,656 341.185 426,056 175,188 335,205 376,896 829,090 5,116,038 137,423 434,980' 14,872; 250,367 173,706: 24,882| 12,571 12,883' 49,010 58,084; 26,312) 28,132 10,465 21,671 21,320 68,757 406,211 9,607 I I 20,958,171 1,010,074 1,642,576 98,930 15,239,536 892,892 11,641,851 788,814 1,853,826 94,705 1,624,428 63,245 667,095 40,196 6,500,845 401,544 5,535,309 284,453 2,193,087 162,032 2,602,509 123,812 1,964,456 101,192 2,601,950! 122,889 3,733,210 196,482 5,927,051 307,827 22,435,439 1,327,079 1,021,917 42,796 5,711,108 3,913,507 489,645 591,552 3,923,439 2,502,331 4,197,063 2,430,012; 396,851! 824,577 310,596 634,231 233,831 223,938 1,478,360 1,336,257 1,739,777 1,717,209 614,666 668,369 ! 551,616 642,109 472,784 290,992 538,772 699,049! 871,663 602,316 1,375,114 1,483,248 7,044,453 4,948,294 287,963] 322,504 409,430! 44,626,139| 2,228,603|12,685,072 8,177,739 844,410 41,232! 3,065,002 176,176! 871,123 888,563 56,104 170,142 28,368,482 1,516,294 7,353,078 5,222,907 420,509 141,442! 22,987,921 1,416,571 8,148,091 4,289,675: 315,148 45,930 3,501,891 192,920 940,734 1,462,379 70,812 31,680 2,752,377, 95,498 494,111 923,169! 44,251 18,876 1,194,598! 63,661 337,125 361,478 31,759 80,918 11,759,275 682,734 2,465,331 2,030,279 129,928 110,077 11,891,095 572,221 3,544,223 2,709,865 168,161 59,049 4,363,173 286,936 1,177,893 1,009,554 85,361 61,340! 5,080,668 225,888 1,053,492 1,068,165 89,472 21,984, 3,338,395 176,150 709,495 466,180 32,449 62,9441 4,796,559 225,615 970,248 1,034,254! 84,615 34,916 7,108,499 376,610 1,586,166 979,212 56,236 137,8611 11,311,472 562,809 2,661,224 2,312,338i 206,618 284,831 46,212,940 2,386,83915,938.90610,064,332 691,042 22,915 1,825,633 67,002. 428,605 459,927 32,522 I I I Totals .. 106,040,863 5,103,505 31,127,216 ! 19,629,521 1,623,830! ;i08,143,256 6,058,962 30,237,701 23,830,495 1,735,567 214,184,119 11,252,527; 61,364,91743,460,016 3,359,39' Previous year .. 99,307,587 5,425,914 30,137,735j 18,936,788 1,613,010! 24,864,931 106,143,040 6,829,563 1,714,369 205,450,627 12,255, 477 58,828, 436 |43,801,719j3,327,37!

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Table No. 13. Registeked Articles. The number of registered articles dealt with in 1912, compared with the number in 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1911, is as follows : — 1890. 1900. 1910. 1911. 1912. From places beyond the Dominion 26,374 52,343 132,493 152,349 142,686 Registered in the Dominion ... 169,321 464,036 993,675 *1,194,570 1,161,909 Totals 195,695 516,379 1,126,168 1,346,919 1,304,595 Dead Letters. 1911. 1912. Opened and returned to writers ... ... 212,821 224,948 Returned unopened to other countries ... ... 54,591 59,457 Reissued ... ... ... ... ... 526 785 Destroyed 21,983 31,452 Returned unopened by Chief Postmasters ... 206,147 246,119 Totals ... ... ... 496,068 562,761 ♦ This number is abnormal owing to the large amount of registered correspondence posted in connection with the General Election. Table No. 14. Paecel-post. The following shows the number and weight of parcels posted during the years 1890, 1900, 1910, 1911, and 1912: —

The following table shows the number and weight of parcels exchanged with the United Kingdom and the undermentioned places during the years 1911 and 1912 : —

Table No. 15. SAN FRANCISCO, VANCOUVER, AND SUEZ SERVICES. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the undermentioned Places by the San Francisco Mail-service.

— 1890. 1900. 1910. 1911. 1890. 1900. 1912. umber \ 121,292 199,413 1,190,711 1,613,010 /eight 336,6431b. 12 oz. 682,1401b. 7 oz. 3,953,2841b. 15 oz. 5,392,3601b. 3oz. 1,623,830 5,279,1401b. 12oz.

Received. Despi ttehed. 1911. 1912. 1911. 1912. Country. Number.: Weight. Number. Weight. Number. Weight. Number. Weight. lb. oz. United Kingdom and foreign . 93,998 530,896 0 101,630 countries (via London) United States of America .. 7,591 26,683 6 9,506 Canada .. .. . . 568 1,094 8 i 839 Victoria .. .. .. 8,358 27,140 14 j 8,703 New South Wales.. .. 13,262 42,214 0 14,625 South Australia .. .. 519 1,403 13 496 Queensland .. .. 878 1,933 9 830 Tasmania .. .. 473 1,173 0 527 Western Australia. . .. 371 834 14 455 Samoa .. .. .. 16 88 6 25 Fiji .. .. .. 137 350 10 101 Ceylon .. .. .. 549 2,732 3 643 Uruguay Cape of Good Hope .. 463 775 10 421 Natal .. .. .. 32 42 5 India .. .. .. 1,138 5,765 6 1,370 Tonga .. .. .. 16 68 3 11. Hong Kong .. .. 357 1,492 11 391 Straits Settlements .. .. .. 131 lb. oz. i lb. oz. 589,085 0 13,112 42,041 10 34,483 5 1,095 2,931 6 1,674 0 i 377 866 8 28,843 14 , 3,140 7,720 3 45,727 0 5,357 12,552 8 1,232 4 ! 415 968 14 2,053 0 i 897 2,092 10 1,422 2 I 694 1,535 6 1,091 6 476 1,101 3 66 6 157 612 11 298 2 511 1,420 1 3,230 14 70 216 13 97 , 318 12 718 1 115 ! 364 12 243 667 I 7,278 6 i 235 842 9 20 11 280 914 13 1,832 6 96 ! 248 15 404 11 lb. oz. 13,719 : 44,236 11 1,196 3,265 8 463 1,217 9 3,231 8,485 13 5,561 13,065 0 488 1,090 5 865 1,880 11 788 , 1,754 2 496 1,395 3 187 759 12 682 2,043 0 55 172 3 120 392 1 66 156 2 314 719 5 318 1,233 5 266 977 2 112 377 1 40 89 14 Totals .. .. 128,726 644,689 6 140,704 719,461 8 27,367 77,416 11 28,967 83,310 11

laximum (in days) linimum „ .verage Auokland. 39 33 36 Wellington. Chriatchurch Dunedin. 38 39 40 32 33 33 35 36 36 * No mails received. Sydney. Melbourne. 43 * 37 40

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Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the undermentioned Places by the Vancouver Mail-service.

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.

Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the undermentioned Places by the Packets of the Orient Line.

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Table No. 15 — continued. TO LONDON VIA SAN FRANCISCO. Melbourne. | Sydney. Dunedin. [ Christchurch Wellington. I Auckland. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average 44 37 40 39 32 34 39 32 34 38 31 33 39 32 34 * No mails despatched. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the undermentioned Places by the Vancouver Mail-service. FROM LONDON VIA VANCOUVER. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch Dunedin. j Sydney. Melbourne. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 35 31 33 37 32 34 38 33 35 38 33 35 40 35 38 * * No mails received. IDON VIA VANCOUVER. TO LO Melbourne. Sydney. j Dunedin. Christchurch Wellington. Auckland. m. Maximum (in days) Minimum Average „ * 41 35 36 39 33 34 39 33 34 38 32 33 37 31 32 * No mails despatched. 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. s between riental Ser FROM LONDON VIA BRINDISI (P. AND 0. PACKETS). I I Melbourne. . Sydney. Auckland. ; Wellington. Cbristchurch. Dunedin. Maximum (in davs) ... 31 32 38 39 39 39 Minimum „ ... 30 31 36 38 38 38 Average „ ... 30 31 37 38 39 38 32 38 39 31 36 38 31 37 38 39 38 39 39 38 38 TO LONDON VIA BRINDISI (P AND O. PACKETS). i l BR1NDISI (P AND 0. PACKETS). Wellington, j Christchurch Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne. Auckland. Wellington. I Christchurch Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne. Maximum (in days) ... 37 Minimum „ ... 36 Average „ ■•• 36 36 37 37 32 31 35 ' 36 36 31 30 35 36 36 31 30 Statement showing the Number of Da; the undermentioned I ys occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and 'laces by the Packets of the Orient Line. PROM LONDON VIA TARANTO (ORIENT PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch Dunedin. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 31 29 30 32 30 31 39 35 36 40 36 37 40 37 38 39 38 38 TO LONDON VIA TARANTO (ORIENT PACKETS). Auckland. Wellington. ! Christchuroh Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne laximum (in days) linimum „ .verage „ 39 37 38 38 36 37 39 37 38 39 37 38 33 31 32 32 30 31

Table No. 15 — continued. TO LONDON VIA SAN FRANCISCO. Melbourne. | Sydney. Dunedin. [ Christchurch Wellington. I Auckland. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average 44 37 40 39 32 34 39 32 34 38 31 33 39 32 34 * No mails despatched. Statement showing the Number of Days occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and the undermentioned Places by the Vancouver Mail-service. FROM LONDON VIA VANCOUVER. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch Dunedin. j Sydney. Melbourne. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 35 31 33 37 32 34 38 33 35 38 33 35 40 35 38 * * No mails received. IDON VIA VANCOUVER. TO LO Melbourne. Sydney. j Dunedin. Christchurch Wellington. Auckland. m. Maximum (in days) Minimum Average „ * 41 35 36 39 33 34 39 33 34 38 32 33 37 31 32 * No mails despatched. 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. s between riental Ser FROM LONDON VIA BRINDISI (P. AND 0. PACKETS). I I Melbourne. . Sydney. Auckland. ; Wellington. Cbristchurch. Dunedin. Maximum (in davs) ... 31 32 38 39 39 39 Minimum „ ... 30 31 36 38 38 38 Average „ ... 30 31 37 38 39 38 32 38 39 31 36 38 31 37 38 39 38 39 39 38 38 TO LONDON VIA BRINDISI (P AND O. PACKETS). i l BR1NDISI (P AND 0. PACKETS). Wellington, j Christchurch Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne. Auckland. Wellington. I Christchurch Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne. Maximum (in days) ... 37 Minimum „ ... 36 Average „ ■•• 36 36 37 37 32 31 35 ' 36 36 31 30 35 36 36 31 30 Statement showing the Number of Da; the undermentioned I ys occupied in the Delivery of Mails between London and 'laces by the Packets of the Orient Line. PROM LONDON VIA TARANTO (ORIENT PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch Dunedin. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 31 29 30 32 30 31 39 35 36 40 36 37 40 37 38 39 38 38 TO LONDON VIA TARANTO (ORIENT PACKETS). Auckland. Wellington. ! Christchuroh Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne laximum (in days) linimum „ .verage „ 39 37 38 38 36 37 39 37 38 39 37 38 33 31 32 32 30 31

FEOM LONDON V r IA BKINDISI (P. AND 0. PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Auckland. Wellington. Christchurch Dunedin. Maximum (in days) ... 31 Minimum „ ... 30 Average „ ... 30 32 38 39 31 36 38 31 37 38 39 38 39 39 38 38 TO LONDON VIi [ BRINDISI (P AND 0. PACKETS). Wellington. Christchuroh Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne. — Auckland. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 37 36 36 36 35 35 37 • 36 36 37 36 36 32 31 31 31 30 30

FROM LONDON VIA TARANTO (ORIENT PACKETS). Melbourne. Sydney. Auckland. Wellington. Ghristchurch Dunedin. Maximum (in days) Minimum „ Average „ 31 29 30 32 30 31 39 35 36 40 36 37 40 37 38 39 38 38 TO LONDON VIA TARANTO (ORIENT PACKETS). Auckland. Wellington. Chrintchuroh Dunedin. Sydney. Melbourne laximum (in days) linimum „ .verage „ 39 37 38 38 36 37 39 37 38 39 37 38 33 31 32 32 30 31

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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.

Eβ n . Number of Telegrams forwarded during the Year. Cost of r c Maintenance Cost of f Maintenance , ines Subsidy. Total Rxpenditure. Cost of Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Tariffln Operation. Year ended Number of Miles of Line. Number of Miles of Wire. 2= .c Private GovernE and Press. merit. Z , Total. — Telegraph Revenue from all Sources. Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Business done during the Year. 30th June, 1866 699 1,390 13 24,761 2,746 27,407 £ s. d. I / s. d. £ s. d. 5,561 19 2 483 3 2 6,045 2 4 £ s. d. £ s. d. 3.934 3 4 2,443 2 II £ s. d. £ s. d. 6,377 6 33 9 10 ) 1867 757 1,498 21 55.621 15,331 7 O .952 9,070 10 1 3,770 4 8 12,840 14 9 8,017 J 4 7 2,541 4 11 10,558 19 6 371 1- Mileage tariff. 1868 I.IIO 2,223 3' 72,241 26,244 98,485 11,652 3 7 6,672 o 3 18,324 3 10 9,489 17 10 5,406 7 3 14,89V 51 4 17 4 1869 1,329 2,495 45 106,070 50,097 156,167 18,520 10 4 13,430 11 9 31,951 2 1 14,266 12 7 8,547 4 9 22,81 } 17 4 6 8 6 1870 1871 1872 1,661 2,897 56 122,545 62,878 185,423 1,976 3,247 72 253,582 59,292 312,874 2,185 3,823 81 344,524 67,243 411,767 17,218 1 4 12,252 6 o 29,470 7 4 22,419 8 8 9,876 17 6 32,296 6 2 28,121 10 o 11,043 3 9 39,!64 13 9 " 16,417 7 4 14,120 4 10 21,254 4 3 11,344 3 8 23.593 9 9 8.858 19 7 27,040 18 10 9,479 5 4 38,801 19 4 15,021 17 11 45,814 11 4 14,240 19 7 61,696 14 5 21,074 8 8 30,537 r2 2 8 9 11 32,598 7 11 5 19 6 32,452 94423 Mileage tariff In operation up to ist Sept., 1869; uniform as. 6d. tariff from 1st Sept., i860, to 31st March, 1870; and is. tarill from 1st April, 18J0. 1 1873 2,356 4,574 93 485,507 83,453 568,960 39,680 18 9 11,105 2 o 50,786 o 9 36,520 4 2 4 1 11 1874 2.53° 5,782 105 645,067 107,832 752,899 46,508 18 10 12,618 11 6 59,127 10 4 53,823 17 3 6 3 11 1875 2,986 6,626 127 786,237 130,891 917,128 55,301 12 3 13,679 10 9 68,981 3 o 60,055 10 11 4 16 4 From ist November, 1873, address and f signature given in free. 1876 3,154 7,247 142 890,382 160,704 1,051,086 62,715 10 4 16,154 6 o 78,869 16 4 82,771 31 5 18 10 1877 1878 3,259 7,423 155 952,283 172,159 1,124,442 3,434 8,035 182 1,065,481 194,843 1,260,324 65,644 15 3 17,024 8 9 82,669 4 o 63.353 10 10 17,931 8 o 69,340 1 8 18,259 4 9 81,284 l8 10 5 12 11 73,284 1 10 19,148 12 4 92,432 14 2 87,599 65 5 10 o 1879 3,512 , 8,117 J 95 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 83509 jist March, 1880 3,638 9,333 214 824,734 183,675 1,008,409 58,120 3 3 19,707 6 3 77,827 9 6 68,651 10 10 14,758 4 5 78,224 1 8 23,154 8 3 69,165 5 o 18,292 13 4 83.409 '5 3 4 3 4 1881 3,758 9,587 227 1,058,342 246,370 1,304,712 73,002 2 o 27,021 3 8 100,023 5 8 101,378 9 11 667 1882 3,824 9,653 234 '1,215,849 222,923 1,438,772 78,828 19 8 22,737 l6 4 101,566 16 o 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.

Year ended Number of Miles of Line. Number of Miles of Wire. S 0 O o£ 7a Number of Telegrams forwarded during the Year. Private Govern- T . ind Press. ment. , lota '- Revenue from all Sources. Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Business done during the Year. Cost of Maintenance of Stations. Cost of Maintenance of Lines, excluding Australian Cable Subsidy. Total Expenditure. Cost of Maintenance of Lines per Mile. Tarirl in Operation. Private Governand Press. ment. Total. 31st Dec, 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 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 9,848 264 10,037 3° 2 10,474 330 10,931 375 11,178 412 11,375 437 11,617 473 11,827 489 12,812 520 13,235 573 13,459 615 13,515 640 1,361,817 208,372 1.379.483 219,917 1.433.458 220,847 I.533.4°6 240,867 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 £ ■■ d. 1,570,189 90,633 11 2 1,599,400 93,822 3 3 1,654,305 95,634 5 5 1,774,273 101,652 8 o 1,836,266 106,638 12 2 i>835,394 106,548 4 o 1,765,863 106,311 11 6 1,802,987 106,462 18 4 1,961,161 110,696 17 8 1,968,264 117,633 15 9 i,904,M3 103,813 8 64 2,069,691 112,465 15 9 £ s. d. 20,608 11 11 21,555 19 2 20,855 19 7 24,860 9 o 27,281 4 9 30,205 11 10 23,164 13 11 24,218 9 3 26,070 12 7 24,840 5 7 24,342 7 o 28,317 7 10 £ s. d. £ s. d. 111,242 3 1 73,554 9 1 H5,378 2 5 73,054 4 6 116,490 5 o 70,036 6 2 126,512 17 o 77,082 4 4 133,919 16 11 77,473 !0 7 136,753 15 10 76,580 10 o 129,476 5 5 72,201 13 5 130,681 7 7 75,426 9 7 136,767 10 3 76,845 1 10 142,474 1 4 85,658 4 11 128,155 15 64 87,472 13 3 HO, 783 3 7 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. \£ s. d. 96,005 15 4 5 17 5 92,264 11 o 4 16 8 90,078 20 4 18 4 97,982 10 6 4 15 9 98,875 89 4 15 11 97,901 12 9 4 13 9 95,463 14 5 5 o 1 101,433 ii o i 5 8 7 104,391 3 IO 5 13 o 114,644 15 9 5 12 7 117,053 42580 121,251 30559 From 1st November, 1873, address and signature given infree. 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 3 Ist March, 1913. Year ended Number of Miles of Line. Number O . of -sS Miles of u°Wire. ,8° I 7. Number d of Telegrams I luring the Yeai I Government. forwarded r. 1 Revenue (including Miscellaneous Receipts). Value of Government Messages. Total Value of Total Expenditure Business done {excluding during Cable Subsidy), the Year. Remarks. Private and Press. Total. Telegrapli. Telephone. 31st March, 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 i9°9 191 1 1912 191 3 5,96i4 6,2454 6,284! 6,484 6,736 6,910 7,249§ 7,469 7.748J 7.779J 7.943J 8,355 8,953 9,656 10,404 10,901 11,316 11,805 12,508 14,8814 705 i5,764i 743 16,470! 780 18,024 824 18,746 878 19,228 915 20,682j§ 991 21,705 1,038 22,67211,103 22,92041,153 23,704 1,200 25,116 1,312 27,031 1,446 29,343 i,6u 32,654 1,764 34,788 1,871 37,212 1,963 39,370 2,079 41,892 2,203 1,802,182 1,899,632 2,285,001 2,4 6 9,4 I 5 : 2,717,548 3,159,093 3,534,444 3,850,391 j 4,271,218 4,671,904 4,900,495 5.351.084 6,160,080 6,958,279 j 7,338,017 I 7,757,128 8,268,340 8,971,725 9,850,379 231,618 224,579 235,168 226,818 243,190 310,538 363,684 3'7,590 288,086 293,293 259,250 289,135 236,252 84,644 87,676 89,762 92,307 91,408 93,893 £ s. d. £ s. d. 2,033,800 88,459 10 11 21,552 12 10 2,124,211 97,178 14 Oh 25,933 12 9 2,520,169 100,385 16 I 29,248 19 5 2,696,233 99,798 8 10J 36,422 6 8 2,960,738 105,576 6 o , 39,718 7 7 3,469,631 119,641 11 6J' 43,303 2 10 3,898,128 137,861 1 24 49,117 o 8 4,167,981 151,933 19 11 55,542 4 9 4,559,304 160,343 7 7 62,151 8 11 4,965,197 166,535 18 8J 71,028 6 3 5,159,745 171,001 13 114 79,061 7 4 5,640,219 184,369 6 2 89,542 1 5 6,396,332 206,70615 84100,814 o 3 7,042,923 227,398 6 8 116,852 13 10 7,425,693 238,103 16 5 131,249 o 7 7,846,890 250,212 2 1 144,298 2 9 8,360,647 272,942 12 104161,173 6 10 9,063,133 295,334 8 2 179,123 18 8 9,944,272 321,951 6 4 201,237 7 3 26,050 7 5 25,843 11 11 23,118 2 6 24,504 9 8 25,500 5 10 29.43 1 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 10 10 4,850 17 2 4,874 o 14 4,831 10 6 4,931 o 7 £ s. d. 5,050 7 5 5,843 11 11 3,118 2 6 1,504 9 8 3,500 5 10 5,431 19 o 5,327 6 2 7,507 17 6 5,440 2 10 1,377 1 7 5,597 11 10 j, 168 10 4 7,486 19 8 1,498 16 74 (,821 10 10 1,850 17 2 1,874 o 14 j,831 10 6 1,931 o 7 136,062 11 2 135,791 o 7 148,955 18 84J 143,665 14 o 152,752 18 0 153,484 6 8 160,725 5 24 165,198 13 5 170,794 19 5 173,152 16 6 192,376 13 44 181,634 11 3 222,305 8 04 194,014 12 11 234,984 2 2 212,180 16 o 248,934 19 4 228,185 IO 7 261,941 6 64 245,805 9 7 270,660 13 if 258,977 10 9 298,079 17 11 276,580 12 5 325,007 15 74 291,359 12 6 I 348,749 17 14 357,58i 1 3 374,174 7 10 394',649 19 6 399,361 2 o 411,296 17 2 i 438,989 19 104 446,709 17 1 479,289 17 4 469,716 17 7 528,119 14 2 509,496 13 7 £ s. d Cable subsidy, 6,492 11 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 eacl additional word after first twelve, id.

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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, 1913.

Table No. 18. Table showing the Paid Telegrams of all Codes forwarded during the Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1913, and the Revenue received therefrom.

Table No. 19. Table showing the Class and Number of Instruments and Batteries in use at Telegraphoffices for the Year ended 31st March, 1913.

Postal District. Revenue derived from Paid Telegrams of all Codes. Value of Franked Government Telegrams. vllue"of Number o , Tel Todes. Ofa " ™£i>n.. Number of Franked Government Telegrams. Total Number 01 Telegrams of all Codes. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames.. Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport I s - d - .. 65,15! 9 9J 5.37° '7 °¥ •• 32.733 13 5 26,610 6 1 .. 10,188 9 9 6,307 3 2f 2,370 4 8 ! 16,301 16 4 .. 21,930 15 74 7,387 16 6J 8,773 5 4 J 4,964 1 8J 8,977 8 6 i 9,683 1 9 20,776 15 iiji 62,127 11 24 4,305 8 1 £ »■ d. 792 8 61 287 13 t>4 J 528 17 4 279 1 6J' I 4 I 2 I 203 7 74, 8 1 34; 171 6 9 214 13 10 490 18 14 117 6 3 35 13 9i 58 2 1 87 9 5 ; 92 15 8J| 1,141 12 iJI 280 11 04 £ s. d. 65,943 18 4 2,053,839 5,658 10 1 178,066 33,262 10 9 1,009,208 26,889 7 7h 813,721 10,329 11 10 265,804 6,510 10 10 170,691 2,378 5 "4 69,5221 16,473 3 1 510,943 22,145 9 54 719,532 7,878 14 8 295,960 8,890 11 74 275,016 4,999 15 6 127,417 9,035 10 7J 293,145 9,770 11 2 295,667 20,869 11 8 675,889 63,269 3 4 1,974,083 4,585 19 i§ 121,876 I5.O32 5.811 9,693 4,7i8 2,928 4.O75 141 3.287 4,ioi 9,640 2,338 712 ',437 1,680 1,818 20,981 5,5oi 2,068,871 183,877 1,018,901 818,439 268,732 174,766 69,663 514.230 723.633 305,600 277,354 128,129 294.582 297,347 677,707 1,995,064 127,377 Totals, 1912-13 .. .. 313,960 5 1 4.931 o 7 318,851 5 8 9.850,379 293,263 7 o\ 8,971,725 93.893 91,408 9,944,272 9,063,133 Totals, 1911-12 .. .. 288,431 16 6$ 4,831 10 6

June Quarter, igia. Class of Telegrams. Number. Revenue. September Quarter, 1912. Number. Revenue. Number. December Quarter, 1912. Revenue. Number. March Quarter, 1913. Revenue. Number. 'otals. Revenue. £ s. d Irdinary .. 1,502,868:65,800 7 5 Irgent .. 67,225 : 4,305 2 9 'ress .. 113,144 6,255 l6 11 Sureau .. 658,47717,932 1 8; 165,800 7 5 4,305 2 9 6,255 16 11 17,932 1 8i 1. £ s. d. > 1,414,124 63,766 9 7 ) : 64,950 4,310 17 4 [ 122,738 6,954 J 5 11 ! i' 7o6,53918,814 8 8 / s. d. 1,414,12463,766 9 7 64,950; 4.310 17 4 122,738 6,954 15 11 706,53918,814 8 8 1,611,084 71.357 110,901 772,093 £ s. d. 68,716 11 5 4,624 13 o 6,316 3 ij 20,630 18 7J 1,649,771 76,738 109,567 798,803 £ s- d. 70,318 5 o 5,012 12 7 6,051 o 9J 21,118 10 2 6,177,847 .:,So,27O 456,35O| 12,935,912; / s. d. 268,601 13 5 18,253 5 8 I 25,577 16 9 I 78,495 19 2 1 iross totals 2,341,714194,293 8 9; .ess other j lines and I .. 19,113 7 5; credits ) 2,341.714! 194,293 8 9i |I9."3 7 5j )£ 2,308,351 93,846 11 6 jj .. 19,873 10 o 2,308,351 93,846 11 6 19,873 10 o 2,565,435 100,288 6 2 18,969 17 6J 102,500 8 6J 19,011 14 11 9,850,379 390,928 15 o 76,968 911 let totals, 2,341,71475,180 1 4 1912-13 ; let totals, 2,099,74566,808 8 21 1911-12 I 2.34 I .7M 75,180 i 4 I 2,308,35173,973 1 6 :$:2,084,614:66,738 l8 2j 2,3°8,35i73.973 i 6 2,565,435 81,318 8 7j: 12,634,879 2,433,870! 78,404 6 8 83,48813 7 J 9.850,379! 1313,960 5 I 288,431 16 6J 2,099,745 66,808 8 2$; 2,084,614 66,738 18 2$ 12,353.496 76,480 3 5* 8,971,725

Number of Morse Instruments in Use (Full Sets). Number of Duplexes (Dillerential). Number of Directsounder Sets. Number of Quadruplex Sets. Number of Automatic Sets. District. Single Double CurreDt. Current. Intermittent Constant Current. Current. Luckland Wellington Jelson .. lanterbury )tago 58 79 30 31 85 54 153 119 57 17 19 3 11 1 4 12 5 6 1 13 2 2] 2 12 9 Totals 283 383 51 28 16 78 Number of Telephones not connected with Exchange. [umber of Cells. District. Number of Quadruples Translator Sets. Leclanche. Gordon. Daniell. Bichromate. Storage. Auckland Wellington Nelson Canterbury Otago 9 10 4 2 93 167 33 55 42 8,517 9,963 3,289 2,544 5,156 678 623 450 2,086 1,605 155 317 322 1,0122 696 20 518 180 3,423 3,768 1,481 I 6 59 2 2 4 Totals •25 390 29,469 3,423 73

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Table No. 20. Table showing the Cost of Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Lines for the Year ended 31st March, 1913.

District. Miles of Wire. Miles of Line. Travellingexpenses of Engineers and Linemen. Extra Labour. Material. Upkeep of S.b. Tutanekai. Rural Total KoWiea nf to Settlers. Maintenance. Linemen. Total Cost of Maintenance. Average Cost per Mile of Wire. Average Cost per Mile of Line. £ s. d. 1,921 17 10 £ s. d. 2,320 9 6 £ 8. d. 2,011 5 10 £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. 6,253 13 2 £ s. d. 5,255 7 1 £ s. d. 11,509 0 3 £ s. d. 1 1 8 £ s. d. 3 r,; :; Auckland 10,626 3,473 Wellington 12,695 3,143 2,400 9 1 4,097 2 2 4,986 15 7 11,484 li I 7,149 17 6 18,634 4 4 1 9 4 5 18 7 Nelson 2,785 1,036 994 4 ! I ,<;oi 14 11 1,150 5 6 3,746 4 (i 2,528 13 5 6,274 17 11 2 5 1 6 1 1 Canterbury 8,008 2,142 1,209 8 11 2,016 13 10 2,993 1 1 6,219 3 10 3,900 13 6 10,119 17 4 1 5 3 4 14 6 Otago 7,778 2,714 780 13 3 832 4 6 1,010 19 2 2,623 l(i 11 4,370 19 2 6,994 16 1 0 18 0 2 11 7 Total 41,892 12,508 , 7,306 13 2 10,868 4 11 12,152 7 2 30,327 5 3 23,205 10 8 53,532 15 11 1 5 7 4 5 7 Cables Knots. 374 168 6 10 982 1 2 255 6 7 3,454 13 9 4,860 8 4 4,860 8 4 Per Knot. 12 19 11 Stores Rural telephones — Assistance to settlers 126 15 4 ! 325 16 9 452 12 1 1,748 0 0 2,200 12 1 1,059 5 0 1,059 5 0 1,059 5 0 Laboratory, &o. 121 5 5 384 17 0 1,434 11 1 1,940 13 6 1,940 13 6 Wireless stations 17 0 6 91 14 1 74 13 3 183 7 10 183 7 10 Total telograph-lincs 7,740 1 3 i 12,652 13 11 1,683 8 3 ! 11,372 6 5 3,454 13 9 13,916 18 1 1,059 5 0 38,823 12 0 24,953 10 8 63,777 2 8 Telephone exchanges 47,005 1,976 12,131 17 1 25,187 11 9 17,004 5 0 42,191 16 9 Grand total 9,423 9 6 24,025 0 4 26,048 15 2 3,454 13 9 1,059 5 0 64,011 3 9 41,957 15 8 105,968 19 5

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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, 1913.

Iiine. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Telephone exchangee — Ash burton Auckland Blenheim istchuich .. Dannevirke Dunedin Feilding Gisborne Greymouth Hamilton Hawera .. .. .. .. I llokitika . . .. . . Invercargill .. .. .. .. \ Levin . . . . . . . . Mastertor Napier Nelson .. .. .. .. I New Plymouth . . .. .. j Oamaru Paliiatua . . . . . . . Palmerston North Rotorua Stratford Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport Whangarei — £ s. (I. 245 1 2 Hi. 285 12 10 2,591 lit 3 6,417 11 7 139 12 I 4.168 15 4 940 2 4 1.748 9 10 115 17 0 377 3 2 708 0 3 lit 6 11 3.069 6 7 73 11 9 2.394 5 6 2.695 15 I 570 15 4 505 15 7 77 17 0 224 17 0 597 12 8 62 14 9 224 17 2 347 6 3 1,962 19 3 2.419 17 0 8,478 14 4 15 16 10 266 11 11 £ s. (I. 245 1 2 16.285 12 10 2,591 lit 3 6,417 1] 7 139 12 I 4.168 15 4 940 2 4 1,748 9 10 115 17 0 377 3 2 708 0 3 19 6 11 3.069 6 7 73 11 9 2.394 5 6 2.695 15 I 570 15 4 505 15 7 77 17 0 224 17 0 597 12 8 62 14 9 224 17 2 347 6 3 1,962 19 3 2,419 17 0 8.478 14 4 15 16 10 266 11 11 £ s. (I. 929 3 0 21.982 16 10 I.815 0 4 1.285 3 11 228 3 2 5.757 11 I 584 10 7 3.163 19 6 234 12 2 762 11 5 1.186 8 II 221 17 8 I ,898 Ki I 34 0 6 3.708 17 5 5.042 8 5 529 17 8 1.104 1 6 614 6 9 337 19 9 1.155 6 8 155 19 7 167 2 5 784 13 2 2.237 2 11 3.255 0 3 4.488 2 11 170 13 11 433 5 0 £ s. d. 1,174 4 2 38.268 9 8 4.406 19 7 10.702 15 6 367 15 3 9.926 6 5 1.524 12 11 1.912 9 4 350 9 2 1.139 14 7 1.894 9 2 241 4 7 4.968 2 8 107 12 3 6.103 2 11 7.738 3 6 1.100 13 0 1,609 17 1 692 3 9 562 16 9 1.752 19 4 218 14 4 391 19 7 1.13! 19 5 4.200 2 2 5,674 17 .", 12.966 17 3 186 10 9 699 16 11 — Total exchanges 57.746 5 9 67.269 13 6 125.015 19 3 Upper Ch'uaiti Extension Lake Ohia Extension Awanui-Waipapakauri-Waiharara-Kaimauniiui Awanui Wireless Awanui Kaitaia (metallic circuit) .. .. Mangatangirau Extension .. Mangonui -Awanui Kaurinui Telephone Extension Kohuinaru Extension Matauri Bay Otoroa Extension .. Auckland-Pupu k<> Kerikeri-Purerua Extension . . .. | Broadwood-Whakarapa I'apnnga Telephone-office .. Haruru Telephone-office Taikawhana Telephone-line Puketona Telephone-office Kawakawa-Ohaeawai Tanekaka Extension .. .. .. I W'l i a 11 garei-Kawakawa Otonga Telephone-office Dargaville-Whangarei .. . . . . Rukawai-Taraunui-Waiparera .. .. ! Mangapai Wharf Telephone Extension 1 )a igaville-Tekopuru-Tatarariki (metallic circuit) Okonga Telegraph-office Puka Puka - Warkwori b (metallic circuit) .. Warkworth- Mullet Point Tekapa Extension Pohuehue Telegraph-office Mangakura-Glorii Auckland-Waiwera Dairy Flat Telephone Extension Glenfield Extension 38 6 0 59 I 9 107 9 6 12.775 10 8 59 17 3 200 7 1 51 J 9 179 12 6 33 17 6 152 ! I I 107 12 8 ■0 6 6 1 14 0 35 5 4 156 18 II 2 17 2 1.201 8 r> I 10 II 1 1 6 92 4 7 I 0 3 70 16 0 2'.) 19 6 7 11 0 45 2 4 174 16 6 69 16 7 15 14 0 11 2 9 2*1 19 it 6 6 0 12 9 11 L9 lit 8 4 2 11 36 4 9 40 14 6 1 0 I 32 6 11 36 5 8 3 14 11 601 11 9 3 16 0 49 8 9 59 1 9 129 9 3 12.775 10 8 6 6 0 72 7 2 220 6 9 4 2 11 51 1 9 215 17 3 33 17 6 152 4 11 118 7 2 1 0 1 0 6 6 32 6 II 1 14 0 71 11 0 156 18 11 2 17 2 3 11 II 1.806 0 2 1 10 11 1 1 6 96 0 7 11 18 10 lit 4 1 I I 10 4 0 3 70 16 0 29 lit (i 7 11 0 45 2 4 186 15 I Hit 0 8 19 15 10

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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, 1913— continued.

Line. Expenditure. Ex xpenditure. Material from Stores.. Material from T< Stores.. Total Cost during the Year. ?otal Cost during the Year. Kennedy's Bay Telephone Extension Wireless, Auckland Post-office St. Heliers, Wireless Te Atatu Telephone Extension .. Edendale North Telephone Extension Mount Albert-Waikumete (metallic circuit).. Waikumete-Karekare .. .. Reweti Telephone-office .. .. .. Ruahau-Piha .. .. .. Pahitoa Telephone Extension .. .. Muriwai Beach Extension . . . . Huia Telegraph Extension .. Otahuhu-Papakura (metallic circuit) . . \ Auckland-Pukekohe .. . . Pukekohe East Extension Pukekohe-Mercer Tuketuke Telephone Extension Thames-Wharehoe Tairua-Hikuai Line Ngatea Telephone-office .. Parawai Telephone Extension Kerepehi-Waitakaruru Extension Pokeno - Pokeno Valley and Bomliay Paparata Valley Extension Pokeno-Mercer (metallic circuit) Mangataupiri Valley Miranda Mercer Te Aroha New Office ... .. Whangamarino Extension Waipuna Telephone Extension Waiterimu Extension Pukewhau Telephone Extension Te Hoe Telephone Extension Pukemiro Telephone Extension Ngaruawahia-Mercer Raglan - Te Akau Taihoa Telephone Extension Hamilton-Morriu.sville Telephone-wire Horsham Downs Extension Hamilton-Cambridge (metallic circuit ) Kaipaki Line Ngaroto Telephone Extension Cambridge-Rotorua (metallic circuit) Putaruru Loop Line Miranui Extension Rotoiti Telephone-office Te Pu Telephone-office Rotorua-Ngongotaha-Tauranga (metallic circuit) Oropi Telephone-office Kaharoa Extension Ngawaro Telephone-office Rotorua-Te Teko Matahi TeTeroa Gate Pa New Office ,. Matahanae-Oponae Telephone Extension Okiore New Office .. .. Wharepapa Telephone Extension .. .. ' Muripara-Te Houhi Pukeatua Extension .. . ■ Auckland - Hamilton - Taumarunui (metallic circuit) Otorohanga - Te Awamutu Otorohanga-Hangatiki .. .. Kirikau Telephone-office Kokakoriki £ S. d. 1 13 6 142 9 3 19 9 i 88 12 9 16 4 0 9 8 2 552 10 7 29 5 I 2 3 0 64 17 3 L95 19 7 122 17 3 27 5 6 1 5 1 0 15 I 3 16 0 1 io 0 0 10 2 67 6 4 5 9 0 32 1 3 2 19 3 81 13 4 0 13 5 (I 19 0 35 6 10 0 5 4 56 ] 9 0 17 6 11 B B 5 11 11 17 2 1 0 2 6 1 11 2 13 3 10 13 4 842 19 10 '.i Lβ 2 1 9 5 13 10 92 10 4 24 4 6 : 138 0 9 418 15 5 24 5 10 ; 12 12 8 £ s. d. 23 9 0 4 1 7 31 5 1 27 10 7 ! 3 2 4 2 5 4 2 6 12 12 7 38 16 9 67 6 7 17 5 I I 2 10 7 19 0 19 2 9 6 3 11 10 6 3 19 9 4 0 10 16 8 11 7 13 9 57 11 6 9 3 7 136 IB 6 4 1 11 53 13 0 4 2 2 i 4 7 7 5 1 11 606 13 6 4 6 8 I 8 2 1 8 3 188 7 8 4 5 11 4 6 11 I I 0 29 19 7 I 1 6 13 15 8 716 3 2.798 19 11 II 0 0 106 2 6 I 9 7 4.95 £ s. d. 25 2 6 142 9 3 19 9 2 92 14 4 47 9 I 36 18 9 552 10 7 4 3 2 29 5 4 6 5 5 68 19 9 208 12 2 38 16 9 190 3 10 27 5 6 1 5 ! 0 15 1 3 16 0 17 B I 1 10 0 I L3 o 7 19 0 67 li I I 9 2 5 9 o 9 6 3 43 11 9 6 19 0 81 13 4 4 14 3 17 7 11 43 0 7 0 5 4 113 13 3 10 1 1 178 0 II 1 111 5 II II 100 15 1 4 1 8 1 11 2 13 3 10 I 3 I 4 7 7 5 111 1.449 13 1 4 6 8 13 12 8 1 8 3 190 9 5 4 5 11 4 6 11 4 1 0 35 13 5 1 1 6 106 6 0 98 -10 9 138 0 9 3,217 15 I 38 5 10 118 15 2 4 9 7 4 9 5

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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, 1913 — continued.

Line. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. Tiiiliaia'Telephone Extension .. .. Hikumutu Telephone-office Kirikiii-Wharepuhunga .. Matapaia Telephone Extension Patunga Telephone-office .. Ranginui Telephone Extension Otewa Telephone-office Rangiatea Telephone Extension Te Araroa Morse (metallic circuit) . . Te Araroa - Whangaparoa Otoko-Tekaraka Fort Awanui - Te Araroa Tolaga Bay Extension Auckland - New Plymouth Line Deviation .. Mairoa-Marakopa Extension Arapae Telephone Extension Taumatawaenga Extension Taupo-Wairakei Maraekowhai Telephone Extension Ongarue-Tangitu Waitewhena Extension .. .. .. Waitaanga Extension Ongarue—Taumarunui (metallic circuit) Taringamotu Extension Hukapapa Telephone Extension Roto Extension Manunui-Kakahi (metallic circuit) Auckland-Welling ton New Line— Auckland Section .. £3,438 i 6 Wellington Section .. Gβ 11 10 £ s. d. 2 0 3 459 17 2 26 14 6 23 15 9 5 8 0 100 0 i) 132 14 8 230 7 11 210 2 5 4 0 0 0 18 6 21 7 0 747 15 0 118 5 4 101 17 6 169 9 1 135 10 6 3 5 8 23 10 2 26 16 6 .">l 14 3 I £ s. d. 11 7 3 •4 8 8 16 2 10 1 9 5 16 11 11 4 12 7 66 2 1 196 13 7 183 15 2 2 10 6 75 9 4 95 4 6 0 11 9 3 9 7 4 7 6 t 12 10 99 1 2 27 15 1 4 2 2 IV I 10 £ s. d. 13 7 6 4 8 8 459 17 2 42 17 4 4 9 5 40 7 8 4 12 7 71 10 1 «296 14 4 183 15 2 135 5 2 75 9 4 95 4 6 230 19 8 213 12 0 8 7 6 5 11 4 21 7 0 846 16 2 118 5 4 101 17 6 197 4 5 135 10 6 3 5 8 27 12 4 26 16 6 78 19 1 Taumarunui-Eaurimu (metallic circuit) . . ' Here Telephone Extension \\ Jutkaki Extension Waitara-Urenui (metallic circuit) .. Whakawhiti Ngatimiro Telephone Extension Ohakune-Raurimu (metallic circuit) Ohakune-Horopito (metallic circuit) Tarurutangi Telephone-office Kent Road Telephone-office Hillsborough Telephone Extension Mangoiei Telephone Extension l'ntaema Telephone ExtensionWj Korito Telephone Extension %&jj Ratapiko Telephone Extension Stratford-Whangamomona (metallic circuit). . Karioi Telephone Extension Waiouru-Karioi .. Hawera-Manutahi (metallic circuit) Rautiti Extension Maungakaretu Extension Te Ohu Telephone. Extension Napier-Waipawa (metallic circuit) .. Hastings-Taradale (metallic circuit) Wanganui-Raetihi (Oruakukuri and Ore Ore) Extension Makahiwi Telephone-office Waverley-Waitotara (metallic circuit) Nukuhau Extension Mangarimu Telephone-office Ruaroa Extension .. .. .. Matatera Extension OJiakea Extension Whakaronga Extension .. .. .. • 3.501 16 3 97 19 1 36 12 6 2 3 0 129 15 10 1 2 6 ■ 20'.) II 9 LI IT 1 43 10 3 1 8 11 1 0 0 -45 16 6 38 9 3 292 9 4 40 5 11 28 6 8 35 6 7 203 12 9 166 1 10 151 17 10 J 67 6 2 1 10 0 46 2 4 0 16 11 1 0 0 6 7 0 2 7 6 22 0 4 •I 12 6 131 12 J 34 8 11 157 1 4 8 5 2 74 3 3 15 7 1 433 7 7 128 1 3 34 8 11 4 12 10 78 13 3 118 13 1 114 9 6 18 0 11 12 11 9 125 13 11 142 18 0 70 19 9 176 1 2 46 3 11 321 14 7 26,9 0 7 84 14 11 4 9 5 170 6 7 4 11 4 40 19 8 19 2 11 15 18 5 3.636 8 I 132 8 0 193 13 10 10 8 2 203 Lit I 15 7 I 1 2 (i 642 19 I 128 1 3 70 6 3 4 12 10 122 3 6 1 8 U I 0 0 164 ii 7 152 18 9 310 10 3 52 17 8 154 0 7 178 4 7 274 12 6 342 3 0 46 3 11 773 12 5 269 0 7 152 1 1 1 10 0 4 9 5 216 8 11 0 16 11 5 11 4 6 7 0 13 7 2 41 3 3 20 10 11

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Line. Expenditure. Expenditure. Material from Stores. Material from Stores. Total Cost during the Year. otal Cost during the Year. Palmerston North - Wanganui Wellington - Palmerston North (metallic circuit) Foxton-Levin (metallic circuit) .. Masterton-Alfredton (metallic circuit) .. : Carterton-Gladstone . . .. • • Wellington-Porirua Extension Wellington-Kaiwarra (metallic circuit) Hukinga Telephone Extension .. Karamata Office Telegraph-office, New G.P.O., Wellington . . Wellington-Hataitai .. .. Wellington Wireless Station Karori East Bureau Chatham Islands, Wireless Port Hardy Telephone Extension Te Puru Extension Onakaka Telephone Extension Mariri Telephone Extension .. Tasman Telephone Extension Picton-Mahakipawa-Havelock and Mahaki-pawa-Manaroa (metallic circuit) .. .. Wiinl -Kekeiangu Fabian's Valley Extension Kawatiri-Glenhope .. . . Horopai Telephone-office Mangatina Telephone Extension .. .. ' Aweko Telephone Extension Berlin's Extension . . . . .. Charleston-Tiromoana Extension . . .. Waikowhai Telephone Extension .. Hapuku - Clarence Bridge (metallic circuit) . . Kaikoura-Hapuku (metallic circuit) Greymouth-Stillwater Hokitika-Kumara Telephone-wire Mahinapua Telephone-office Hokitika - Kanieri Forks - Ruatapu (metalliccircuit) Heivpo Extension Harihari Extension Lower Cook River Settlement Tokama Telephone Extension Christchurch-Kaikoura (metallic circuit) Mason River Deviation Amberley-Waipara (metallic circuit) Sheffield-Springfield (metallic circuit) Kinvee-Courtenav Whakahua Extension Kirwee-Darfield .. Sheffield-Darfield (metallic circuit).. Darfield-Christchurch Breeze's Road Extension New Brighton and North New Brighton South Brighton Telephone-office New Brighton Wireless Station St. Martin's Line Hororata-Whiteclift's (metallic circuit) .. : Cashmere Hills Burnham School Telephone Extension East Oxford .. • • • • Lμ! brook's Extension .. .. .. Lyndhurst-Methven (metallic circuit) Glentunnel Bureau Irwell Telephone Extension £ s. d. 256 () 5 471 16 7 18 8 8 : 333 11 9 27 19 0 0 2 6 167 6 2 5.581 17 0 239 17 6 ! 52 15 1 14 12 9 I 12 16 6 3 14 0 51 3 3 i 83 15 8 175 6 0 132 8 B 2 I 2 48 13 1 6 6 0 163 0 8 116 7 4 29 8 5 i 106 3 1 9 15 3 7 13 0 9 Iβ 3 0 118 30 12 10 1 • 5 0 40 I 0 138 13 6 84 10 2 39 4 6 : 0 2 0 82 11 2 2 14 2 i 14 14 0 42 18 8 10 2 0 £ S. d. 110 19 II 870 4 6 26 18 10 179 4 0 13 5 7 3 18 3 3 12 5 3 16 4 179 15 0 9 19 0 26 11 11 4 8 7 78 4 10 339 4 9 368 9 3 0 11 5 4 7 2 0 13 4 7 4 35 5 7 8 19 8; 155 4 2 1 7 7 71 1 11 146 7 10 92 6 3 86 12 5 67 3 10 0 13 11 12 9 5 18 4 1 1.035 3 10 21 12 5 34 14 5 0 6 6 1 4 11 1 15 0 59 11 11 61 19 7 4 5 8 10 16 1 11 10 0 5 15 1 15 9 9 3 7 7 • 8 13 0 146 10 6 34 15 7 3 2 0 17 13 9 £ s. d. 256 0 5 582 J 6 6 18 8 8 1.203 16 3 26 18 10 207 3 0 13 5 7 0 2 6 3 18 3 167 6 2 3 12 5 5.581 17 0 3 16 4 239 17 6 232 10 1 24 11 9 39 8 5 8 2 7 129 8 1 423 0 5 543 15 3 132 19 10 4 7 '2 2 2 5 4 7 I 83 18 8 15 5 8 318 4 10 117 14 11 29 8 5 177 5 0 156 3 1 99 ID 3 86 12 5 9 16 3 67 3 10 0 13 11 0 11 8 12 9 6 48 16 11 1.035 3 10 1 5 0 21 12 5 74 15 5 0 6 6 139 18 5 1 15 0 144 2 I 61 19 7 4 5 8 50 0 7 11 10 0 0 2 0 5 15 1 98 0 11 3 7 7 11 7 2 146 10 6 49 9 7 42 18 8 3 2 0 27 15 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, 1913 — continued.

Line. Expenditure. Material from Total Cost during Stores. the Year. Te Pirita (metallic circuit) Christchurch-Rakaia (metallic circuit) Bankside Telephone Extension Huliuka - Turnbull River Extension Sherwood Downs Extension Tripp Telephone Extension Hinds (metallic circuit) Lynnford Extension Maronan Extension .. .. Christchurch-Timaru (metallic circuit) Peel Forest Bureau .. .. Pleasant Valley - Te Moana Extension .. Rangitata Island Extension Pleasant Point New Office Chamberlain Extension .. . . .. j Esk Valley Extension Lyalldale - Esk Valley Pareora - St. Andrew's (metallic circuit) St. Andrew's - Makikihi .. .. .. Makikihi Toll Line .. .. .. Willowbridge-Waimate .. . . .. Timaru-Glenavy-Oamaru Trunk Kuriheka Telephone Extension Green Island Morse Be.ndigo Extension Lindis Pass Telephone Extension . . . .* Roslyn Telephone-office .. .. Pukehiki Telephone-office .. .. Kyeburn Diggings Telephone Extension .. j Newborough Telephone Bureau . . Middlemarcli - Mt. Stoker Telephone Extension Heathfiekl Telephone-office 1'avkliill Telephone Extension J'oiiliri Telephone Extension Glenleith Telephone Bureau Pararahi Extension North Chatton Telephone Extension Otautau-Nightcaps (metallic circuit) Invercargill-Lumsden (metallic circuit) Manuka Creek Telephone-office Te Houka Telephone Extension Glencoe Telephone Extension Parawa Telephone-office .. . . .. I Mabel Bush Telephone Extension .. Bluff (metallic circuit) .. .. Dacre Extension Win ton (metallic circuit) .. Menzies Ferry Telephone Extension Owaka-Balclutha Trunk Wire 11 inaiiina Telephone Extension .. .. Invercargill-Riverton (metallic circuit) Awarua Wireless Etal Creek Telephone Extension Turi Telephone Extension E s. d. 183 8 10 52 3 4 29 8 0 62 3 8 6 4 11 1 7 7 15 2 0 580 17 3 110 7 8 0 116 4 0 6 185 15 9 j 12 12 0 19 13 8 7 2 10 1 11 0 384 0 4 198 3 5 11 9 0 323 0 5 0 10 0 10 0 0 9 7 3 99 6 0 48 5 6 126 13 it 272 4 it 0 1 8 61 7 I 259 II 11 ' 19 4 3 79 11 1 33 15 8 258 8 6 30 14 1 73 4 8 6,085 1 2 256 16 10 1 13 0 i An r*r\ i y-v £ s. d. £ s. d. 4 4 2 4 4 2 564 9 11 747 18 9 29 13 11 J 29 13 11 0 3 3! 52 6 7 19 0 3 48 8 3 18 9 9 80 13 5 6 4 11 14 8 6 15 16 1 12 12 8 27 14 8 1.528 16 9 2.109 14 0 0 7 0 0 7 0 40 17 6 151 5 2 30 16 9 31 8 3 11 6 1 11 6 1 4 0 6 31 2 5 216 18 2 24 13 Of 24 13 0 12 15 2 j 25 7 2 32 9 3 I 52 2 11 2 6 8 2 6 8 2 6 8 9 9 6 11 17 3 11 17 3 I 11 0 0 11 0 0 11 0 0 5 3 0 5 3 49 8 2 433 8 6 6 6 7! 667 5 8 1 5 8 1 34 11 0 232 14 5 10 2 7 21 11 7 323 0 5 3 0 3 3 10 3 0 10 0 0 10 0 8 19 5 18 19 5 16 2 5 I 25 9 8 0 17 3 100 3 3 20 18 6 64 4 0 130 12 10 257 6 7 646 9 5 i>18 II 2 0 18 27 12 11 I I) 3 36 19 4 296 11 3 6 5 1 6 5 1 11 10 3 F33 14 6 609 13 9 509 13 9 15 (' 3 95 0 4 12 0 8 12 0 8 1 J!) 7 35 15 3 180 9 4 438 17 10 8 19 5 39 13 6 198 3 0 271 7 8 6.085 1 2 29 4 3 286 1 1 1 13 0 f*t — 11.1 1 • * n 1 ■ s\r\ i i\ • 1 1 • • i 1 Purchase of material I I 103,294 103.294 0 5 148,080 13 3 i ; 0 5 85,112 16 85,112 16 3 • 188.406 16 8 3 188.406 16 8 Total expenditure, 1912-13 ' .. 251.374 13 251.374 13 8 8 Total expenditure to 31st March, 1912 .. 5 2,025,750 11 £2,277,125 4 ,( )25,750 11 0 0 Total cost of J lines during — 8 the year .. : £188.406 16 Total cost of 8 Total expenditure out of Public Works Fund to 31st March, 1913 .. .. .. i 2. i £ 277,125 4 8 loiai cosr 01 lines during ', the year .. j £188.406 16 8 = j

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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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Year. 2-2 j= a Capital Cost for Instruments, Wire, Poles, Labour, Freight. Superintendence, &c. Average Cost of Total for all each Con- Connections, nection. Revenue. Salaries and Allowances of Clerks, <fto. I Materials and Linemen. Working-expenses. Kent, Fuel, Wear-and- Light, Paper, tear, &c* Printing, : Binding, &c. Balance of .Revenue over Workingexpenses. Annual Kate per Cent. yielded on Capital Cost. Total. Total for the year ended 31st March, — 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 .. .. .. . k 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 .. .. .. .. ' 1910 1911 1912 1913 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 20,402f 22,815t ■25,212f 28,093 31,475 36,374 £ 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 9 24 2 2 24 18 4 25 18 9 27 2 7 27 17 8 27 18 0 27 11 7 £ b. 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 7 683,986 11 1 783,382 15 4 878,133 8 7 1,003,131 5 4 £ 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 7 144,298 2 9 :IG1, 173 6 10 179,123 18 8 [201, 237 7 3 £ s. d. 285 0 0 595 0 0 695 0 0 1,770 0 0 2,849 1 3 2,873 0 0 3,119 10 0 3,315 10 0 3,790 0 0 4,192 0 0 4,630 0 0 7,405 0 0 7,720 0 0 9,285 0 0 9,686 0 10 12,306 9 7 14,181 18 0 15,030 7 1 15,710 13 2 16,304 6 3 18,448 3 5 20,885 13 3 23,359 8 3 25,121 16 1 26,506 16 5 32,913 16 8 38,107 12 8 47,224 7 0 52,315 1 8 54,818 13 10 62,588 11 10 69,078 1 1 £ s. d. 275 0 0 595 0 0 770 0 0 1,590 0 0 1,704 0 0 1,580 10 0 2.252 0 0 2,249 7 0 2,206 10 0 2,249 18 5 2,345 2 9 2,695 19 10 3,313 1 1 4.253 11 4 5,303 11 9 7,398 0 10 11,834 2 11 16.190 4 0 20,847 13 6 18,225 18 9 20,570 0 9 22,078 4 11 22,507 9 10 26,781 19 6 22,576 6 8 26,145 3 4 36.813 9 6 32,995 2 4 28,755 11 11 39.814 5 4 33,791 4 1 42.191 16 9 £ s. 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 U 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 34,199 6 7 39,169 2 9 43,906 13 5 50 156 11 3 £ 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 31 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 7,740 18 1 8,031 0 7 8,724 19 2 i9,763 15 2| £ s. 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 9 123.010 18 3 141,833 2 6 149.011 8 6 171,190 4 3 £ 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 21,287 4 6 19,310 4 4 30,112 10 2 30,047 3 0 8-17 54-31 2341 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. 2-14 2-46 2-75 4-17 2-69 4-69 3 47 1-89 2-40 311 2-46 3-43 2-99 * This column includes 5 per cent, for wear-and-tear and 5 per cent, for debenture capital, except in 1897-98 and following years, t In former returns extensions were included for these three years. 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.

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P.—1. 46 Table No. 23. Table showing the Number of Connections at kach Telephone Exchange. Number of Connections on 31st March. ! Exchange. 1913 - 1912 - ConSons. »«*■* Total. Extensions. ! Total. ; I l I Ashburton .. .. .. 272 33 305 241 26 267 Auckland .. .. ..I 4,536 1,356 5,892 3,906 1,149 Devonport .. .. .. 104 4 108 83 4 Helensville ...... 31 1 32 31 1 Manurewa .. . . .. 22 .. 22 * * Northcote .. .. .. 10 .. 10 10 Papatoetoe.. .. .. 23 . . 23 * * Onehunga .. .. .. 66 3 69 59 4 Pukekohe .. .. .. j 88 2 90 54 1 Takapuna .. .. .. 43 .. 43 37 Waiuku .. .. .. 33 .. 33 32 5,055 87 32 10 63 55 37 32 Balclutha .. .. .. 118 7 125 100 6 Clinton .. .. .. 16 .. 16 16 Kaitangata. . .. .. 13 .. 13 12 Owaka .. .. .. 32 , 32 * * 106 16 12 * Blenheim .. .. 355 37 392 352 32 Havelock .. .. .. 34 .. 34 * * Picton .. .. .. 102 3 105 98 2 Renwicktown . . .. 17 .. 17 * * Seddon .. .. . . 94 2 96 * * 384 * 100 * * Carterton .. .. .. 180 12 192 120 9 Greytown .. .. .. 85 3 88 81 2 129 83 Cheviot .. .. .. 41 .. 41 40 40 Christchurch .. .. .. 3,490 1,021 4,511 3,182 924 Akaroa .. .. .. 51 5 56 42 4 Coalgate .. .. .. 22 1 23 * * Darfield .. .. 41 . . 41 * * Doyleston .. .. .. 12 .. 12 11 Duvauchelle .. .. 19 .. 19 20 East Oxford .. .. 14 .. 14 * * Kaiapoi .. .. .. 49 .. 49 44 Kirwee .. .. .. 11 .. 11 10 Leeston .. .. .. 20 1 21 20 1 Lincoln ...... 12 2 14 12 2 Little River .. .. 15 .." 15 15 Lyttelton .. .. ... 23 .. 23 22 1 New Brighton .. .. 9 .. 9 6 Southbridge .. .. 12 .. 12 12 Sumner » .. 11 '.. 11 - 15 4,106 46 * * 11 20 * 44 10 21 14 15 23 6 12 15 Cromwell .. .. .. 31 .. 31 31 Clyde ...... 12 J 13 12 1 31 13 Dannevirke .. .. .. 271 26 297 250 22 Ormondville .. .. 30 .. 30 29 Takapau .. .. .. 66 .. 66 34 Weber .. .. .. 28 1 29 19 272 29 34 19 Dargaville .. .. .. 119 5 124 94 5 Aratapu .. .. .. 22 .. 22 15 Tangowahine .. .. 12 .. 12 13 Te Kopuru.. .. .. I 40 .. 40 37 99 15 13 37 * Opened during the >ar.

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47 F.—1. Table No. 23— continued. Table showing the Number of Connections at each Telephone Exchange— continued. Number of Connections on 31st March. Number of Connections on 31st March. .>uiiiiicr oi on oist iriaruu. ,. . 1913. 1912. Exchange. Condons. Extensions. Total. Extensions. Total. 1912. I. Dunedin Lawrence Middlemarch Milton Mosgiel Outram Palmerston.. Port Chalmers Waikouaiti.. Eketahuna Alfredton .. 3.177 876 49 1 28 89 1 40 1 31 42 4 is 2 16 179 I 19 4,053 50 "28 90 41 31 46 50 16 180 19 2,940 51 23 52 38 29 32 13 11 89 19 821 I 3,761 52 23 53 39 29 36 M II 90 19 Eltham Kaponga 106 II 26 116 26 91 19 8 99 19 Featherston .. Martinborough 101 8 104 2 109 106 88 83 9 2 97 85 Feilding Cheltenham Halcombe .. Kiwitea Rongotea .. Sanson 317 28 16 16 24 30 j 1 29 345 16 16 24 31 29 286 16 14 16 27 17 27 1 313 16 14 17 27 17 Gisborne 1.135 100 1,235 981 92 1,073 Gore Balfour Mataura Riversdale .. Waikaia Waikaka Waipahi 245 36 10 35 3 31 13 13 8 281 10 38 31 13 13 8 218 K) 24 30 12 12 8 27 3 245 10 27 30 12 12 8 Greymouth Reefton Hamilton Cambridge .. Huntly Mercer Morrinsville Ngaruawahia Raglan Te Awamutu 393 44 76 6 171 61 152 "> 30 1 22 87 3 41 21 132 7 437 82 535 157 31 22 90 41 21 139 387 74 398 111 24 * 68 36 * 71 i 43 4 39 3 1 * 1 * 6 430 78 437 114 25 * 69 36 * 77 Hastings 797 94 891 657 71 728 Hawera Manaia Okaiawa Opunake Otakeho 301 30 98 2 7 38 1 5 331 100 7 39 5 256 32 7 38 5 25 2 1 281 34 7 39 5 * Opened during the year.

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

Number of Connections on 31st March. 1913. 1912. Exchange. Connexions. ■*—* Total. ooSSL. Extensionp - Total. Hokitika Kumara Ross I ! i 168 10 34 • 36 178 34 36 160 33 35 6 16i 3; 31 Invercargill Bluff Edendale .. Lumsden Nightcaps .. Orepuki Otautau Riverton Thornbury.. Tuatapere .. VVaimahaka Winton Woodlands . . VVyndham .. Kaikoura Kimbolton Apiti • • i .. i .. ;; 925 230 73 7 16 3 26 14 9 74 1 44 1 13 14 25 I 67 1 13 37 3 38 1 33 13 1,155 80 19 26 14 9 75 45 13 14 26 68 13 40 39 33 13 815 75 15 24 7 8 63 39 12 23 58 10 33 34 29 14 195 7 3 1 * 1 3 1 1,011 8! li a 64 39 * 12 23 59 10 36 35 29 14 Kohukohu Rawene 28 32 28 32 23 29 23 29 Levin Otaki Shannon 67 6 55 3 28 73 58 28 61 55 28 5 3 66 58 28 Mangonui 51 51 41 41 Marton Bull's Huntorville.. 213 II 48 77 2 224 48 79 176 43 48 8 1 184 43 49 Masterton 628 63 691 531 54 585 Napier Greenmeadows 954 237 18 .. - 1,191 18 860 12 203 1,063 12 Nelson Motueka Richmond .. Takaka Wakefield .. 526 51 79 6 27 57 1 39 577 85 27 58 39 466 63 28 51 27 43 2 509 65 28 51 27 New Plymouth Inglewood .. Urenui Waitara Oamara Duntroon . . Kurow Ngapara 502 63 80 1 21 68 3 407 35 19 1 26 19 565 81 21 71 442 20 26 19 445 61 ■•:: 59 389 19 27 18 58 1 * 2 35 1 503 62 * 61 424 20 27 18 Opotiki Whakatane 77 6 47 83 47 64 42 4 68 i2 . * Opened during the year.

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

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49 P.— Table No. 23— continued. Table showing the Number of Connections at each Telephone Exchange— continued. Number of Connections on 31st March. Exchange. 1913. 1912. Direct Connections. CO! n;.^., Direct inneetioc Extensions, ns. Extensions. Ti Total. ' otal - J Co. Direct Connections. Direct innections. I. Extensions. Total. Paeroa Te Aroha .. 77 87 11 1 88 88 67 74 8 75 2 76 Pahiatua Makuri Pongaroa .. Woodville .. 149 15 28 66 9 3 158 15 28 69 135 6 28 65 9 144 6 28 3 68 Palmerston North Ash hurst .. Foxton Longburn .. Tokomaru .. 766 23 99 9 16 123 2 I 889 23 101 9 17 685 22 95 13 13 100 785 22 2 97 13 13 Patea 68 i 1 69 57 1 58 Queenstown .. Arrowtown Glenorchy .. 40 24 8 40 24 8 41 21 8 41 21 8 Rakaia Chertsey Methven Rangiora Amberley .. Cust Rotorua Putaruru . . Stratford 58 10 66 60 20 13 209 23 232 I 6 2 i 26 I 20 59 10 66 66 22 13 235 24 252 47 10 45 49 17 12 187 * 219 1 48 10 45 4 53 2 19 12 15 202 * * 18 237 Taihape Mangaweka Mataroa Ohakune Raetihi Rangataua .. Utiku 181 49 15 81 33 20 24 13 194 49 15 82 33 20 24 130 35 14 69 32 * 21 8 138 35 14 1 70 32 * * 21 Tapanui Heriot Kelso •• 22 9 6 2 21 9 6 21 10 5 1 22 10 5 Taumarunui . . 94 2 96 47 47 Tauranga Te Puke •• ■ 77 19 3 80 19 70 18 2 72 18 Te Kuiti Otorohanga Piopin Thames Timaru Albury Fairlie Geraldine .. St. Andrew's Temuka ;; 174 43 25 186 646 21 93 94 25 100 12 2 25 131 I I 6 186 45 25 211 777 21 97 98 25 106 124 32 •ft 175 584 * 70 92 13 83 10 134 1 33 * * 18 193 107 691 * * 2 72 3 95 13 4 87 *Ope ened during the j year.

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Table No. 23 —con tinued. Table showing the Number of Connections at each Telephone Exchange— continued.

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Number oi if ( Connections on 31st March. Exchange. 1913. i _ B""** I- Extension*. Connections. lit 12. Total. ,, Dlrec . t Extensions. Connections. Total. i aihi 101 10 Ill 104 9 113 'aimate Studholme Junction.. 148 10 12 160 !() 131 8 10 141 8 aipawa Otane Waipukurau 193 41 164 9 1 2 202 42 166 148 29 126 6 154 29 126 airoa Mohaka Nuhaka 202 18 22 16 1 218 19 22 179 18 22 13 1 192 19 22 anganui Fordell Waitotara . . Waverley .. 1 982 10 35 48 178 1 1,160 10 35 49 891 * 34 37 148 * 1 1,039 * 34 38 r arkworth Waiwera i 51 18 51 18 38 * * 38 * 'ellington Johnsonville Lower Hutt Petone Upper Hutt 4,122 6 65 13 46 1,276 2 5.398 6 65 13 48 3.740 6 54 12 39 1,214 1 4,954 6 5-4 12 40 r estport 225 17 242 210 15 225 r hangarei Kawakawa Ohaeawai Russell 275 46 32 26 19 2 294 48 32 26 204 is 23 13 1 * 217 49 * 23 Totals 36,374 6,560 42,934 31,475 5,782 37,257 * Opened (luring the y<-;ir.

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Diagram 1. — Illustrating combined Postal and Telegraph Revenue and Expenditure for Years between 1883 and 1912 (see Statement on page 2).

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Diagram 2. —Illustrating Value of Money-order Business for Years between 1863 and 1912 (see Table 1).

Diagram 3. — Illustrating the Value of Postal Notes sold for Years between 1886 and 1912 (see Table 3).

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Diagram 4. —Illustrating the Progress of the Post Office Savings-bank for Years between 1868 and 1912 (see Table 6a).

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Diagram 5.—Illustrating Credits in Balance-sheets of Post Office Account for Years between 1883 and 1912 (see Table 7).

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Diagram 6. —Illustrating Number of Articles posted for Years between 1883 and 1912 (see Table 12).

Diagram 7. — Illustrating Number of Parcels posted for Years between 1888 and 191 2 (see Table 14).

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Diagram 8. —Illustrating Number of Miles of Telegraph Wire in operation for Years between 1868 and 1912 (see Table 16).

Diagram 9.— Showing the Number of Miles of Telephone (Exchange) Wire in operation for Years between 1898 and 1912 (see Table 20.)

Diagram 10. —Illustrating Number of paid Telegrams forwarded for Years between 1868 and 1912 (see Table 18).

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Diagram 11. —Showing Number of Telephoneexchange Connections for Years between 1888 and 1912 (see Table 22).