LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS.
A HUGE STATE BUSINESS. REVENUE EXCEEDS £1,000,000. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Sept. o. This afternoon (Sir Joseph Ward presented his seventeenth report as Post-master-General. When he first assumed that office in 1891 the revenue for the year was £320,058, and last year, for the first time, it. exceeded £1,000,The revenue has doubled since 1902, and the permanent staff numbers 4531 officers. The receipts for the year were: Postal. £603,150; telegraph, £434,116; total, '£1,037,266. The expenditure was: Postal, £4O/ ,- 360; telegraph, £446,710; total, £914,070. During the year 100,328,930 letters were delivered in New Zealand, 8,895,251 postcards, 50,801,836 other articles, and 1,281,253 parcels. Money orders to the number of 569,657‘f0r £2,457,523, were issued, and 449,773 for £2,126,589 were paid. Of postal notes 1,666,959 were issued for £524,943. The savings bank deposits were £lO,708,939, and the withdrawals £9,695,515 The number of telegrams forwarded was 8,559,055, and there -.were 2,031,376 bureau communications.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3315, 6 September 1911, Page 6
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152LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3315, 6 September 1911, Page 6
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