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APPENDIX.

DESIGNATION OF OFFICES CHANGED.

CABLE BUSINESS. The Dominion's outward International and Australian cable business, excluding press, for the years 1927-28 and 1926-27 was as follows:— INTERNATIONAL. Number of Value. Messages. £ 1927-28 .. .. 170,818 .. .. .. 178,091 1926-27 .. .. 166,047 .. .. .. 182,904 Increase 4,771 = 2-87 per cent. Decrease 4,813 = 2-63 per cent. AUSTRALIAN. Number of Value. Messages. £ 1927-28 .. .. 148,011 .. .. .. 29,464 1926-27 .. .. 151,359 .. .. .. 30,027 Decrease 3,348 = 2-21 per cent. Decrease 563 = 1-87 per cent. There was a total increase of 1,423 messages, and a decrease in value of £5,376. Of the total revenue received on forwarded cable messages —viz., £207,555 —£194,690 was paid to other Administrations, and £12,865 was retained by New Zealand. RECEIVED CABLE MESSAGES. The number of cable messages received in New Zealand during the years 1927-28 and 1926-27, exclusive of press, was as follows :—• International. Australian. 1927-28 .. .. 147,325 .. .. .. 140,899 1926-27 .. .. 142,299 .. .. .. 140,440 Increase 5,026 = 3-53 per cent. Increase 459 = 0-32 per cent. The total revenue earned by New Zealand on received cable messages during the year 1927-28 was £10,674, as compared with £10,306 for 1926-27.

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