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N"EW ZEAL AN 13.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOE THE YBAE 1919.

@ortf<mtir_. PAGE PAGE Introduction ... ... ... 1 Burglaries at Post-offices ... ... 7 Beceipts and Payments ... 1-2 Buildings... ... ,\i ... 7 Staff ... ... ... ... 2 Money-orders ... ... 7 Health of Permanent Staff ... ... 2 Postal Notes ... ... ... 7 Personal and Staff ... ... ... 2 British Postal Orders ... 8 Cost-of-Living Bonus ... ... 3 Savings-bank ... ... .. 8 Appeal Board ... ... ... 3 Work performed for other DepartExaminations ... ... 3 ments !l ' ... ... : ... •'8 Correspondence Classes ... ... 4 Telegraphs ... ... ... 8 Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, New Zealand Submarine Cable Service 9 1919 ... ... ... ... 4 Ocean Cable Services ... ... 9 Post Office Loan Certificates ... 4 Wireless Telegraphy ... ... 10 Advertising need of work by Returned Telephone Exchanges ... ... 10 Soldiers ... ... ... 4 Telephone Facilities for Backblocks ... 11 Abolition of Censorship ... ... 4 Automatic Telephone Exchanges ... 11 Stores ... ... ... ... 4 Slot Telephones ... ... ... 11 Workshops ... ... ... 5 Post Office 5 APPENDIX. Dead and Missing Letters ... ... 5 Prohibited Correspondence ... ... 6 Designation of Offices changed or corBegister of Newspapers and Magazines 6 rected ... ... ... ... 12 Stamp-recording Machines ... ... 6 Inland Mail-services established ... 12 Postage-stamps ... ... ... 6 Subsidized Sea Mail-services ... 13 Ocean Mail-services ... ... 6 Cable Business ... ... ... 14 Inland Mail-services ... ... 6 Badio-telegrams ... ... ... 15 (For Index to Tables see page ii, and for Detailed Index see pages iii and iv.)