I

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1925-26.

CONTENTS. PAGK P^GE Receipts and Payments .. .. 1,9 Relief Date-stamp .. .. .. 14 Telephone Services .. .. .. 1 Cinematograph-films .. .. .. 14 Automatic - telephone - exchange Instal- Post-office Burglary .. .. .. 14 lations .. .. .. .. 2 Postal Convention .. .. .. 14 Cook Strait Telephone-cable .. .. 2 Departmental Motor-vehicles .. .. 15 Buildings .. .. .. .. 2,11 Workshops .. .. .. 15 Establishment of New Postal District .. 3,10 Stores Branch .. .. .. 15 Marine Post-office .. .. .. 3 Work for Electoral Department .. 17 Overseas Mails .. .. .. 3,13 Articles delivered .. .. .. 17 Inland Mail-services .. .. .. 3, 13 Average Number of Letters posted per Auckland - Wellington " Daylight Li- Unit of Population .. .. .. 17 mited" Express .. .. .. 3 Number of Post-offices in Dominion .. 17 Rural Deliveries .. .. 4, 12, 13 Postal Packets posted in Dominion during Parcel-post .. .. .. .. 4,21 Years 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, and " Insured Box" Service .. ..4,21 1925 .. .. .. .. 18 Cheap Postage-rate for Library Books .. 4 Post Office Savings-bank .. .. 5,19 Post-marking Machines .. .. 4 Undeliverable Postal Packets .. .. 20 Inspection of Post-offices .. .. 4 Prohibited Postal Packets .. .. 20 Money-orders .. .. .. 5 Register of Newspapers and Magazines .. 20 Savings-bank .. .. .. 5,19 Postage-stamps .. .. .. 20 Inland Letter-telegrams .. .. 5,22 Stamp-vending Machines .. .. 20 Reduced Cable Rates .. .. .. 5 Discount-stamps .. .. .. 2] Intercolonial Night Letter-telegrams .. 5, 24 Insured Parcel-post Service to Canada Radio-telephone Broadcasting .. .. 5 and Fiji .. .. .. 21 International Radio-telegraph Conference 6, 29 Cash-on-delivery Service to Fiji .. 21 Establishment of Stores Branch at Auck- Postal Notes.. .. .. .. 21 land .. .. .. .. 6 British Postal Orders .. .. .. 21 Motor Transport .. .. .. 6 Telegraph and Toll Services .. .. 21 Motor Registration .. .. .. 6, 14 Direct Telegraph Circuits between Athletic Work performed for other Departments.. 6 Park, Wellington, and Eden Park, AuckGeneral Election, 1925 .. .. 7 land .. .. .. 21 Outbreaks of Fire .. .. • .. 7, 14 Telephoning of Weather-forecast Tele-Wellington-Napier Train Accident .. 7 grams to Exchange Subscribers .. 22 Visit of United States Fleet .. .. 7 Press Telegrams .. .. .. 22 New Zealand and South Seas Inter- Press Telegram Rates .. .. 22 national Exhibition.. .. ..8,16 Miscellaneous (Telegraphs) .. .. 22 Death of Right Hon. W. F. Massey .. 8 Telegraph and Toll Traffic .. .. 22 Postmaster - General: Relinquishing of Ocean Cable Services .. .. 23 Office .. .. .. .. 8 Pacific Cable Board .. .. .. 23 Details of Revenue, &c. .. .. 8 International Telegraph Conference .. 23 Staff .. • • • • 10 Cable Rates .. .. .. 23 Appeal Board .. .. 10 Daily Letter Cable Messages .. .. 23 Reprint of Staff Regulations .. .. 10 Cable Traffic.. .. .. 24 Audit of Accounts .. .. .. 10 Telegraph and Toll-line Systems .. 24 Transfer of Offices .. .. .. 11 Inter-Island Toll Service .. .. 26 Departmental Correspondence Classes .. 11 Effect of Extension of High-tension Lines 26 Examinations .. .. . ■ 11 Machine-printing Telegraphs .. .. 26 Rural Mails .. .. .. 4,12,13 Maintenance of Lines .. .. .. 26 " Householder" Circulars .. .. 13 Poles and Wire .. .. ..26 Missing Postal Packets . .. 13 New Zealand Submarine Cables .. 27

i—F 1.