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Table No. 26. TABLE showing the Revenue, Expenditure, &c., of the Post Office in the Postal District of Westland in 1873.

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s Total Received and Despatched. Mail Service; Expenditure. ital. Mail Services. O 0 2 Letters. Weight of Books and Books and Newspapers. Newspapers in lbs. q.s Mode of Conveyance. Number of Times Weekly. Cost of Conveyance. Salaries. Contingencies. Expenditure. Revenue. Trunk Lines : I. Hokitika to Greymouth II. Hokitika to Christchurch III. Ross to Gillespie's IV. Hokitika to Ross £ s. d. 91 13 4 1,250 o o 235 o o 60 o o £ s. d. 52 1 8 £ s. d. £ s. d. 143 J5 ° 1,250 o o 265 o o 100 o o £ s. d. 161 o o 7 8 4 2 66,745 45,342 6,866 32,865 45 »498 4.953 28,125 9,480 929 5.273 42 7 1 20 Coach C Horse Coach 2 1 •6 3° ° ° 40 o o 500 50 o o 202 o o Branches: 7,52i 949 566 8,189 2,258 3.983 695 670 5.°78 2.794 1,181 747 130 126 793i 43&§ 184I 5 10 Horse Foot Horse Tram, and Coach Coach Horse 6 60 o o 38 is o 22 IO O 206 s o 30 o o 5 o o 90 o o 43 IS ° 22 10 o 32 o o 700 300 34 o o 24 o o 12 15 O I. Hokitika to Ho Ho ... II. Waimea to Big Dam... III. Arahura to Teremakau IV. Greymouth to Greenstone V. Greymouth to Arnold VI. Marsden to Clifton ... 3 1 2 4 1 20 16 8 3 1 1 22 10 o 500 500 o 17 o O 12 O 060 229 12 O S 12 O 25 6 o 1 1 20 O O Country Mail Services —Totals " Post Office, Greymouth Post Office, Hokitika 33 1 176,803 174,327 81,104 H3. 535 215,870 101,059 26,6303 34,890 18,949 343i ... 1,984 3 4 189 11 8 642 10 o 824 2 6 1 15 o 128 9 10 162 9 9 2,175 10 o 770 19 10 986 12 3 53° 15 o 1.479 12 3 1,382 16 4 1 Totals I 1 1,984 3 4 35 432,234 460,464 80,4693 3433 ... 1,656 4 2 292 14 7 3.933 2 I 3,393 3 7