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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 1918.

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 1917-18 and 1918-19.

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i i Money-orders. Savings-i >anks. Postal District. Issued. P 'aid. Number ! Deposits. of New Accounts Amount. opened, j Number. Amount. Number ot Accounts closed. Witlu Ira wals. Number. °° 8 ™ mi8 ' Amount. Number. Number. Amount. Auckland Blenheim christchurch Dunodin .. jisborne .. Sreymouth Hokitika Invereargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Damaru rhames Cimaru Wanganui Wellington Westport £ 161,230 4,212 838,505 168,207 8,220 183 42,191 4,283 53,202 1,476 \ 302,773 i 64,781 52,848 1,265 ! 271,789 ! 54,497 15,817 420 99,348 ' 7,140 14,757 319 71,028 ' 7,442 3,137 67 15,453 2,431 24,528 528 124,712 10,738 33,065 804 207,701 | 22,952 14,681 330 78,673 12,718 25,348 594 114,172 15,1.33 8,011 150 84,41,7 4,259 27,191 j 563 147,850 11,348 1.4,978 i 329 152,498 9,381 35,174 i 781 208,182 19,897 1.35,059 ' 5,211 804,023 123,940 11,248 I 249 55,940 4,572 638,500 17,487 3,649,371 549,785 £ £ 935,599 ,10,293 ! 233,392 3,472,987 35,011 888 14,710 216,886 419,559 8,765 ! 169,445 2,506,254 329,532 6,412 ' 122,171 1,857,473 47,818 2,270 ' 31,129 449,388 42.132 830 12,028 181,244 10,371 213 2,979 44,993 92,235 2,978 44,584 684,023 163,906 4,265 60,414 942,319 74,507 1,414 23,248 370,794 104,895 3,291 I 47.885 785,040 25,728 980 j 14,122 203,617 72,114 ! 2,222 25,842 370,939 57,445 2,078 | 32,779 521,781 117,083 4,369 i 58,521 859,134 727.342 19,026 l 311,611 4,394,228 24,770 572 8,487 119,975 3,280,053 70,809 |i, 213,353 18,101,105 10,537 655 5,812 4,733 1,589 779 232 2,013 2.958 1,060 2,171 659 I ,806 1,478 3,262 12,755 516 .154,442 7,844 112,230 69,759 19,150 7,035 1,513 22,025 32,544 12,700 22,647 7,015 13,876 17,610 35,877 186,254 4,602 £ 2,881,587 178,730 2,160,105 1.525,493 369,625 173,700 37,870 568,030 765,858 312,972 681,400 196,994 328,479 414,125 739,087 3,498,262 105,924 Grand totals .. 53,015 727,729 14,938,841

Si ,ld. Paid. Denomination. 1917-18. 1918-19. [917 IS. 1918-19. 1917-18. s. d. 0 6 982 10 2,762 1 6 1,314 2 0 2,811 2 6 5,766 3 0 2,387 3 6 742 4 0 1,585 4 6 695 5 0 14,112 *5 6 *6 0 *6 6 *7 0 7 6 1,619 *8 0 *8 6 •9 0 *9 6 10 0 17,842 *10 6 •11 0 •11 6 *12 0 12 6 850 •18 0 "13 6 *14 0 •14 6 15 0 2,838 *15 6 *16 0 •16 6 •17 0 17 6 612 •18 0 •18 6 •19 0 •19 6 20 0 30,141 •21 0 902 2,357 1,159 2,255 4,821 2,009 716 1,251 556 12,463 1,391 16,435 394 218 1,188 924 510 406 1,257 1,017 1,887 1,279 911 733 241 192 458 392 201 145 2,682 2,454 1,533 1,054 1,007 888 131 82 131 136 265 220 13 4 116 51 33 65 70 39 24 2,957 2,874 218 126 969 698 327 205 209 169 161 132 97 57 38 31 105 79 86 47 715 762 24 23 92 64 154 167 112 ' 98 79 75 64 51 24 28 35 40 30 22 9,949 8,875 612 558 , 394 1,183 510 1,257 1,887 911 241 458 201 2,682 1,533 1,007 131 131 265 13 4 51 65 39 2,957 218 969 327 209 161 97 38 105 86 715 24 92 154 112 79 64 24 35 30 9,949 612 673 2,709 506 32,959 Number .. 93,058 Value .. .. £55,489 29,587 25,564 83,102 £50,351 £16,809 £14,884 * British I'ostal Orders of these deuominatii 1st September, 1910. from issue at all otlices in the Dominion ou the one were withdrawn