ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1932-33.

CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Receipts and Payments .. .. 1, 7 Money-orders 16 Savings-bank .. . ■ •• ..1,16 Postal Notes •• •• •• Sta,ff • • • • • .. 2, 7 British Postal Orders .. .. . ■ 16 Commercial Branch .. .. .. 2, 9 Post Office Investment Certificates . . 16 Buildings and Land .. .. ..2,10 Work performed for other Departments .. 16 Inland and Ocean Mail-services .. 3, 11, 12 Alteration in Rate' for Cable Messages to Air Mails .. • ■ • • .. 3, 13 Australia and Suva .. .. . . 18 Postage-stamps .. • ■ .. 3, 13 Closing of Wellington Cable Station . • 18 International Telegraph and Radio-telegraph Maintenance of Telegraph and Telephone Conference .. . ■ • ■ .. 4, 17 Communication . . .. 18 Broadcasting Service .. .. .. 4, 23 Machine-printing Telegraphs .. .. 19 Empire Broadcasting Station .. ..B, 24 Battery Maintenance .. . . 19 Wireless Patent Rights .. .. • • 5 Sunday Telegraph Attendance .. .. 19 Telephone Exchange Services .. .. 5, 25 Toll Service : Improved Methods of Opera-Long-distance Telephone Communication .. 6, 19 tion . . .. • ■ .. 19 Radio Telegraph and Telephone Services .. 6, 21 Carrier . curre nt Telephone Systems and Appeal Board .. ■ • ■ ■ ■ ■ Voice-frequency Toll Repeaters .. 19 Departmental Correspondence School .. 8 Extension of Telegraph and Toll Systems .. 20 Examinations .. ■. • • ■ • 9 Poles and Wire .. . . 20 Suggestions Board .. • • • • 9 New Zealand Submarine Cables .. . . 21 Stores Branch .. . ■ • ■ • • Overseas Radio Telephone Service .. 21 Workshops .. .. ''-J Departmental Radio-stations: Operation.. 21 Departmental Motor-vehicles . . .. 10 E Raclio stations .. .. 22. Reduction m Postage Rates .. . • ll Ead i o . te legraph Service with Small Coastal Division of Auckland and Wellington into Vessels .. .. .. .. 22 Postal Districts .. . . 14 Q penin g 0 | Commercial Radio - telegraph Burglary of Post-office Premises, &c. .. 15 22 Average dumber of Letters posted per Unit Trans-Tasman Air Flights 24 of Population .. .. .. 15 Development of Telephone Exchange SysDead Letter Office '' - - .. 15 terns .. _ .. • • • ■ 25 Prohibited Correspondence .. • • 15 Telephone Statistics .. .. 26 Missing Postal Packets .. .. •• 16 Automatic Telephone Exchanges -• 27

TABLES.

98 1. Receipts and Payments .. .. • • ■ • • • • ■ ■ • 2. Money-order Business since 1863 .. .. ■ • • • • • • • .. 28 OQ 3. Parcel-post, Overseas .. .. • ■ •• •• •• •• 4. General Statement of Post Office Savings-bank Business for Year ended 31st March, 1933 .. 30 5. General Statement of Post Office Savings-bank Business from inception in 1867 to 1933 .. 31 6. Letters, Newspapers, Parcels, &c., posted and delivered .. .. .. . • "" 7. Telegraph and Toll Business, 1932 and 1933 .. ~ .. .. • • -. 33 8. Cable, Radio-telegraph, and Radio-telephone Business, 1932 and 1933 .. .. .. 34 i—F. 1.