CHRISTCHURCH.
SOME HOLIDAY STATISTICS
[Press Association.]
CHRISTCHURCH, Dec. 28. Regarding the behavior of the crowds in the city on Christmas Eve Inspector Gillies informs a representative of “Truth” that the police -authorities rarely have had any trouble on Christmas Eve and last Thursday night, was not an exception, despite the fact that the city was very full of fieople. The following arq tlio details of postal traffic’lor the period from December 17tli to 24th this .year, last year’s figures being given also: Mails received 3045 bags, 355 hampers; last year, 2289 bags, 252 hampers; out-, ward mails 3082 bags, 420 hampers; last year 2,968 bags, 334 hampers. (Sale of stamps: -*d 144,000, last year 76,0002; Id 256,000, last year i92,.000. Cash receipts from stamps,' £3175, last year £2318. Telegraph business Christmas Eve: 3842 messages forwarded -and 5120 received, as against 3405 and 4381 last year. Messages received from 'various centres for transmission to other centres 11,590, as against 9382. The following; were the, tramway, takings for the December hqlklays: Anniversary Day £394 8s lOd, Christmas Eve £383 0s 3d, Christmas Day £251 4 S Bd, -BoxingDay £991 10s lOd.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2385, 29 December 1908, Page 5
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189CHRISTCHURCH. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2385, 29 December 1908, Page 5
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