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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 1917.

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 1916-17 and 1917-18.

Money-orde; :s. Savings-b lanks. Postal District. Issued, Paid. Number of New Accounts opened. Deposits. Number Wlthi of Accounts closed. Number. Lrawals. Number. Commission. Amount. Number. Amount. Number. Amount. Amount. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hokitika invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport 159,623 8,392 52,975 53,37.1 16,249 15,629 3,225 25,654 33,653 15,291 26 362 7,663 28,011 15,435 35,878 134,006 11,200 4,117 182 1,433 1,292 439 347 69 552 811 338 600 146 562 345 780 3,816 248 £ 792,465 38,391 287,246 258,068 94,608 72,855 15,757 121,461 201,838 76,343 142,802 83,840 144,790 146,640 207,830 738,551 53,160 165,753 4,539 64,483 55,426 7,005 7,345 2,502 17,156 23,258 12,906 15,618 4,117 11,263 9,013 20,125 126,017 4,395 £ 868,306 34,483 383,688 320,836 43,832 38,821 11,685 89,134 158,621 75,099 104,870 24,713 07,807 53,452 109,861 721,599 24,267 16,887 • 995 9,124 7,019 2,222 936 274 3,245 4,388 1,428 3,812 955 2,531 2,110 4.519 21,115 640 231,002 14,894 173,868 125,321 30,487 13,051 3,101 45,372 60,971 22,848 47,564 13,801 26,618 32,805 58,851. 302,169 9,1.86 £ 3,317,734 201,995 2,412,953 1,811,678 430,382 180,008 39,463 647,374 895,296 348,743 771,727 225,965 368,897 516,096 842,155 3,974,314 121,149 10,626 666 6,507 4,872 1 ,626 860 197 2,012 2 993 1,327 2,201 614 1,896 1,501 3,255 12,146 , 532 155,395 7,609 110,910 71,034. 17,698 7,048 1,489 21,565 31,942 12,740 22,195 6,858 13,928 17,577 34,448 181,915 4,556 £ 2,861,942 169,856 2,043,510 1,568,103 359,283 1.76,41.2 39,885 535,137 744,169 310,538 061,477 190,244 320,715 451,160 711,989 3,206,577 110,172 Grand totals .. 642,683 16,077 3,476,645 550,921 ! 3,130,574 82,200 1,211,909 17,106,529 53,921 1718,907 14,461,169

Sold. Paid. Denomination. 1916-17. 1917-18. 1916-17. 1917-18. s. d. 0 6 1 0 1 6 2 0 2 6 3 0 3 6 4 0 4 6 5 0 *5 6 *6 0 *6 6 *7 0 7 6 *8 0 *8 6 *9 0 •9 6 10 0 •10 6 •11 0 •11 6 •12 0 12 6 •13 0 •13 6 •14 0 •14 6 15 0 •15 6 •16 0 •16 6 •17 0 17 6 •18 0 •18 6 •19 0 *19 6 20 0 •21 0 1,085 4,734 2,124 4,241 5,895 3,079 1,133 2,289 939 14,637 2,352 18,058 982 2,762 1,314 2,811 5,766 2,387 742 1,585 695 14,112 1,619 17J842 183 902 309 932 . 1,371 520 217 346 102 2,579 71 169 69 117 272 102 29 49 25 2,798 82 46 33 141 123 71 33 77 29 784 17 36 16 21 44 34 14 IP 22 10,093 280 394 1,183 510 1,257 1,387 911 241 458 201 2,682 1,533 1,007 131 131 265 134 51 65 39 2,957 218 969 327 209 161 97 38 105 36 715 24 92 154 112 ■ 79 64 24 35 30 9,949 612 1,195 '850 3,753 2^838 850 612 41,648 36,'141 Number 108,612 93,058 23,177 29,587 £16,809 Value .. £63,456 £55,489 £14,474 * British Postal Orders of these denominations were withdrawn from issue at all oi 1st September, 1910. ices in the Dominion on the