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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1924-25.

CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Receipts and Payments ... ... 1,9 Motor-vehicles ... ... ... 17 Telephone Service ... ... ... 1 Missing Postal Packets ... ... 17 Automatic-telephone-exchange Instal- Articles delivered ... ... ... 18 lation ... ... ... .. 2 Average Number of Letters posted per Buildings ... ... ... ... 2,22 Unit of Population ... ... 18 Inland Mail-services ... ... 2 Number of Post-offices in Dominion ... 18 Rural Deliveries ... ... ... 3 Undeliverable Postal Packets ... 18 Cinematograph-films ... ... 3,13 Prohibited Postal Packets ... ... 21 Compulsory Enrolment of Electors ... 3 Register of Newspapers and Magazines 21 Tuition of School-children by Oorres- Postage-stamps ... ... ... 21 pondence ... ... ... 3 Parcel-post ... ... ... 21 Motor Registration ... ... 3,13 Postal Notes ... ... ... 22 Postal Congress ... ... ...3,11 British Postal Orders ... ... 22 Postmarking Machines ... ... 4 Results of " All Black" Football Matches 22 Post Parcels from Great Britain ... 4 Press Rates ... ... ... 23 Ocean Mails: Proposal to forward via Telegraph and Toll Traffic ... ... 23 Suez ... ... ... ... 4 Telegraph and Toll-lines Systems ... 23 : Inspection of Post-offices ... ... 4 Machine-printing Telegraphs ... 23 Post Office Savings-banks in New Zea- Universal-battery System ... ... 24 land's Dependencies and in the Man- Maintenance of Lines ... ... 24 dated Territory of Western Samoa ... 5 Miscellaneous (Telegraphs) ... ... 24 Motor Transport ... ... ... 5 New Toll Circuits ... ... ... 24 Railway Strike ... ... .. 5 Poles and Wire ... ... ... Intercolonial Night Letter-telegram ... 5 New Zealand Submarine-cables ... 25Radio Broadcasting... ... ... 6,27 Cable Traffic ... ... ... 25 Amateur Wireless Licenses ... ... 6, 28 Ocean Cable Services ... ... 26 Wireless Press News to Ships at Sea ... 6 Wireless Traffic ... ... 26 Reduced Cable Rates ... ... 6 Wireless Equipment, Extension, &o. ... 27 Inland Night Letter-telegrams ... 6 Eee for Ship Operator's Certificate ... 28 Work performed for other Departments 7 Press Rate on Telegrams exchanged Money-orders ... ... ... 7 with Island Stations .... ... 28 Savings-banks ... ... ... 7 Telephone-exchange Service (Develop-Safe-deposit System ... ... 7 ment) ... ... ... ... 28 Postmaster-General: Relinquishing of Attendance at Telephone Exchanges ... 28 Office ... ... ... ••• 8 New Exchanges, Extensions, &c. ... 29 Details of Revenue, &e. ... ... 8 Private Telephone-lines ... ... 30 Staff ... ... ... 10 Public Call Offices ... ... ... 30 Appeal Board ... ... ... 10 Private-line Circuits between Places of Departmental Correspondence Classes 10 Business ... ... ... 30 Examinations ... ... ... 10 Telephone Statistics ... ... 30 "Householder" Circulars ... ... 10 Automatic-telephone-exchange InstalPost and Telegraph Amendment Act, lations ... ... ... ... 32 Government Publications:"' Postage (Interleaved are illustrations of the new -^ ates 23 post-office, Sc. Heliers, the new telephoneExplosion at Motueka !" 14 exchange Stout Street Wellington, the Government Life Insurance Agencies ... 14 wireless stations at Aitutaki and Mangaia, Transfer of Offices 14 and also of work bem § undertaken in conCustody of Duplicate Key of Safe or with telephone-cables and telephone-Strone-room ... 14 exchange installation; together with graphs Overseas Mails "' "' ' 14 indicating departmental revenue and expendiIntercolonial Mail-services ... ... 15 ture > &0 ') Inland Mail-services 15 APPLN DIX. Stores Branch ... ... ... 16 Designation of Offices changed ... 34 Audit of Engineer's Stock ... ... 16 Cable Business ... ... ... 34 Workshops ... ... ... 16 Radio-telegrams ... ... ... 34 (For Index to Tables see page ii, and for Detailed Index see pages iii and iv.)