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Table No. 19. TABLE showing the Reveuue, Expenditure, &c., of the Post Office in the Postal District of Thames in 1873.

Total iceived and Dei ;patched. Mail Service: Expenditure. Tol ll. Mail Services. d 2 Books and Newspapers. Weight of Books and Newspapers in lbs. 5.S Mode of Conveyance. Number of Times Weekly. Cost of Conveyance. . Letters. Salaries. Contingencies. Expenditure. Revenue. I. Hastings ... II. Paeroa III. Tararua ... IV. Landing and Shipping Mails 2,886 1,089 4,180 2,685 769 Horse Steamer Horse Boat £ s. d. 45 o o £ s. d. 10 o o 10 o o £ s- d. £ s. d. 55 o ° 11 4 8 30 o o 93 17 6 £ s. d. 13 5 0 5 7 4 19 12 2 i 1 537 237 iS4 14 40 2 3 Uncertain. 6 148 ... ! 20 O O 93 i7 6 158 17 6 10 o o As required ] 56 Country Mail Services —Totals Post Office, Thames 3 I 8,iS5 206,147 4,639 81,563 928 30 o o 963 2 6 148 120 16 5 190 2 2 1,083 18 II 38 4 ' 1,749 14 1 ... ... Totals 56 993 2 6 1,274 I I 1,787 19 . 4 214,302 86,202 17,241 158 17 6 122 I I Table No. 20. Table stowing the Revenue, Expenditure, &c, of the Post Office in the Postal District of Taranaki in 1873. £ s. d. I £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s- <!• £ s, d. Trunk Lines : I. New Plymouth to Okato II. New Plymouth to Patea III. New Plymouth to Waitara ... 1 4 2 192 57.625 1,878 65,766 125,461 679 13,480 2,080 85 1,691 260 i6§ 100 10 Horse Coach 1 2 2 ! 12 IO O I 600 001 30 o o 17 10 o 500 630 o o j 35 o o i 367 Io ° ... ... 12 10 o j 630 o o 22 IO O 4 14 " 394 17 6 24 5 11 Country Mail Services —Totals Chief Post Office, New Plymouth ... 7 1 16,239 1 2,036 6,707 1 I26§ : 67 6 4 665 o o 434 16 4 1,099 16 4 1 423 18 4 <>44 5 1 1,068 3 5 ... Totals 8 126$ 630 o o ! 402 10 o 69,899 8,743 67 6 4