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TELEPHONE SERVICES Table No. 6—Number of Telephones, and Revenue

Table No. 7 —Toll Calls

SAVINGS-BANK SERVICES Table No. 8—Deposits and Withdrawals

Table No. 9 —Accounts Opened and Closed, etc.

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Year Ended 31st March, Subscribers' Main Stations (a). Service Main Stations (6). Extension Stations, all Classes (c). Public Call Offices (d). Revenue from («), (o), and (d). PrivatelyOwned Phones connected with Public Telephoneoffices. Toll Stations. Total Telephonestations. Telephones per 1,000 of Population. 1949 1950 234,874 253,458 3,418 3,576 76,832 83,804 1,640* 1,802f £ 2,270,213 2,399,479 4,166 4,115 1,827 1,784 322,757 348,539 172-8 182 * Includes 46 multi-coin telephones for effecting local and toll calls, f Includes 76 multi-coin telephones for effecting local and toll calls.

Year Ended 31st March, Inland Toll Service. Radio-telephone Service. Number of Calls. Revenue from Paid Tolls. Forwarded. Received. Number of Calls. Revenue (New Zealand Portion). Number of Calls. Revenue (New Zealand Portion). 1949 1950 f 25,279,330* 27,054,336f £ 1,854,111 1,990,131 5,086 5,793 £ 4,795 I 4,400 5,290 6,330 £ 3,983 4,245 * Includes 5,086 forwarded overseas calls, t Includes 5,793 forwarded overseas calls.

Year Ended 31st March, Number of Deposits. Total Amount of Deposits. Average Amount of Each Deposit. Number of Withdrawals. Total Amount of Withdrawals. Average Amount of each Withdrawal. Excess of Deposits over Withdrawals. Interest Credited. 1949.. 1950.. 3,310,543 3,751,232 £ 70,690,640 77,963,430 £ 21 21 2,392,027 2,550,983 £ 67,722,724 73,306,181 £ 28 29 £ 2,967,916 4,657,249* £ 3,438,790 3,821,285 * War gratuity savings-bank account transactions have been excluded to show the normal position. The inclusion •of these would have shown the excess of deposits over withdrawals as £864,403 (see page 23).

Year Ended 31st March, Number of Accounts Opened. Number of Accounts Closed. Number of Open Accounts as at 31st March. Total Amount of all Accounts, Inclusive of Interest, as at 31st March. Average Amount of Each Account as at 31st March. Number of Branches of the Post Office Savings-bank Open at the Close of the Year. 1949 1950 149,789 161,663 115,762 211,569 1,422,578* 1,372,672 £ 166,296,764t 170,982,452 £ 117 125 957 967 * Includes J 11,286 war gratuity savings-bank accounts transferred on 31st March, 1949. t Includes £11,447,754 war gratuity deposits transferred to savings-bank on 31st March, 1949.