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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL OPERATIONS AND BUSINESS OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1924.

RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS. The receipts and payments of the Department for the financial year 1923-24 are shown in the following table : —

Receipts and Payments for the Years 1881-82, 1891-92, 1901-2, 1911-12, and following Years.

PERSONNEL. During the year Mr. R. B. Morris, Secretary of the Department, retired, and was succeeded by Mr. A. T. Markman, First Assistant Secretary. Mr. Markman was succeedeel by Mr. G. McNamara, Second Assistant Secretary, and Mr. J. Robertson, Superintendent eif Staff, was appointeel to the vacancy created by the promotion of Mr. McNamara. Mr. J. Laurenson, Chief Inspector, retired during the year after completing forty years' service. Mr. Laurenson was succeeded by Mr. R. D. Kelly, Chief Postmaster, Auckland. The positions of Superintendent of Staff and Chief Clerk have been abolished, the work hitherto attended to by these officers being distributed amongst the administrative and principal controlling officers in the General Post Office.

Item. Postal. Telegraph. Total. Receipts. £ s. el. 1,032,347 3 9f 50,000 9 9 928 19 7 36,602 5 1 26,709 17 10 £ s. el. £ s. d. 1,032,347 3 9f 50,000 9 9 928 19 7 36,602 5 1 11,566 2 9 38,276 0 7 700,329 2 Oi 700,329 2 Of 830,469 16 5f 830,469 16 5f Postages Money-order and postal-note commission Money-order commission received from foreign offices .. Private box and bag rents and rural elelivery fees Miscellaneous receipts Paid telegrams Telephone exchange rentals and miscellaneous Totals 1,146,588 16 Of 1,542,365 1 3 2,688,953 17 3f Payments.. £ s. d. 599,994 19 10 54,139 10 8 136,940 5 3 101,921 18 2 2,632 12 5 £ s. el. £ s. il. 810,696 11 6 1,410,091 11 4 54,139 10 8 136,940 5 3 101,921 18 2 2 632 12 5 155,724 17 10 155,724 17 10 127,460 4 10 258,533 13 4 Salaries Conveyance of ocean mails Conveyance of inland mails Conveyance of mails by rail Money-order commission credited to feireign offices Maintenance of telegraph and telephone lines Miscellaneous 131,073 8 6 Balance of receipts over payments 1,026,702 14 10 119,886 1 2f 1,093,881 14 2 2,120,584 9 0 448,483 7 1 568,369 8 3f 1,542,365 1 3 2,688.953 17 3f Totals 1,146,588 16 Of

Year. Receipts. £ 234,529 I Payments. £ 233,291 Balance of Receipts Excess of Payment* over Payments. over Reoeipts. 1881-1882 £ £ 1,238 1891-1892 320,058 488,573 268,343 465,756 51,715 1901-1902 22,817 1911-1912 1,087,710 988,911 98,799 1912-1913 1913-1914 1914-1915 1915-1916 1916-1917 1917-1918 1918-1919 1919-1920 1920-1921 1921-1922 1922-1923 1923-1924 1,167,826 1,269,921 1,359,059 1,695,757 1,809,317 1,837,260 1,972,539 2,106,995 2,590,441 2,811,535 2,087,768 2,688,954 i 1,069,272 1,173,314 1,246,850 1,296,522 1,370,810 1,489,446 1,702,048 1,944,161 2,591,786 2,451,571 2,114,994 2,120,584 98,554 96,607 112,209 399,235 438,507 347,814 270,491 162,834 359,904 572,774 568,370 1,345