ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1935-36.

CONTENTS.

PAGE PAGE Receipts and Payments .. .. 3, 12 Handling of Undelivered Printed Matter. . 16 Post Office Savings-bank .. .. 3, 21 Correspondence posted on Wharves: Staff .. .. •• -■ 4, 12 Handling .. .. .. .. 17 Officers' Sick-benefit Fund .. .. 4 , 13 Cancellation of Postage-stamps on Packets Visit of Engineering Officers to United and Parcels .. .. .. 17 Kingdom .. .. .. •• 4 parcel-post, Great Britain-New Zealand Commercial Branch .. .. .. 4, 13 via Panama: Rates.. .. .. 17 Buildings and Land .. .. .. 5, 15 i ns p 6C tion .. .. .. .. 20 Postage-stamps .. .. .. 6, 19 B ur glary of Post-office Premises, &c. .. 20 Booklet of Rates and Charges . . . . 6 Articles delivered .. . . . - 20 Literature for the Blind, .tree Transmis- Average Number of Letters posted per Unit sion of Talking-book Records. . . . 6 Q | p 0 p U ] a ti on _ _ .. .. 21 Inland and Ocean Mail-services .. 6, 17, 18 Dead Letter Office 21 Inland Parcels: Reduction of Rates ..6, 16 Missing Posta l Packets'.'. !! 21 Mall ® "I I' J® Money-orders 21 Telegraph Service .. ..7,23 p ostal Noteg 21 Te ephone Exchange Services .. '' 8 > f. British Postal Orders 21 Toll Service ■ - • ■ ■ • ■ • >p po t office Investment Certificates .. 22 Inter-Island Telegraph and Telephone Work performed for other Departments .. 22 Communication Channels . JO Maintenance of Telepkone and Telegraph Radio Telegraph and Telephone Services. .10, 27 . ° _ Overseas Radio-telephone Service ..11,30 Communications . .. 25 Broadcasting Service 14,35 Carrier-current Telephone Systems .. 25 Office of Postmaster-General .. .. 11 Machine-printing Telegraphs . . 26 to Telegraph Batteries and Power Supply .. 26 Examinations .. .. ..13 E of Tel h an(l Toll S^/ms .. 2 6 Suggestions Board 13 Si Stores Branch 14 roleb allcl , ' Workshops .. - • 15 New Zealand Submarine Cables .. *1 Departmental Motor-vehicles !! 16 Radio Telegraph and Telephone Services.. 27 Bicycles 16 Private Experimental Radio stations .. 35 Reduction in Newspaper-postage Rate .. 16 Private Commercial Radio Stations Inland Commercial Papers and Printed Telephone Statistics .. .. .. 33 Papers : Removal of Restrictions .. 16 Interference with Broadcast Reception .. 36 TABLES.

[. Receipts and Payments .. .. ■ • • • ■ • • • • • .. 37 2. Money-order Business since 1863 . . .. . • ■ • • • • • .. 37 3. Parcel-post, Overseas .. .. . ■ • • • • • ■ • • .. 38 4. General Statement of Post Office Savings-bank Business for Year ended March, 1936 . . 39 5. General Statement of Post Office Savings-bank Business from inception in 1867 to 1936 .. 40 6. Letters, Newspapers, Parcels, &c., posted and delivered .. . • •. .. 41 7. Telegraph and Toll Business, 1935 and 1936 .. . . . . • ■ • ■ .. 42 8. Cable, Radio-telegraph, and Radio-telephone Business, 1935 and 1936 .. .. .. 43

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