POST AND TELEGRAPHS

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20115, 1 July 1914, Page 5

POST AND TELEGRAPHS

The annual report of the Post ,and Telegraph Department shows an excess of receipts over expenditure during the year of £96,606. A notable feature cf tho year's working was the large extension of telegraphic and telephonic facilities, no less than 1073 miles of polo, line, and~34,899 miles of wire were erected. Considerable public attention has been given to tho radio-telegraphic service. The increase in messages over the previous year was 54 per cent, for forwarded, and 87 per cent for received communications, the charge for radiotelegrams exchanged between a telegraph office in the Dominion and ships trading exclusively between Australia and New Zealand or betr? een New Zealand ports having been reduced by 50 per cent. Active preparations arc being made for the installation of the automatic telephone system in the six centres for which a tender was let last year. In the industrial disturbance which, took place at the end of 1913 the Department mamtainol mail communication with a minimum of inconvenienec to tho .public. The ina-ximum amount on which interest is allowed in the savings bank was increased from £600 to £1000. A system of transferring savings bank accounts between New Zealand and Australia w'ao inaugurated. \