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Statement showing Revenue and Expenditure of the Post and Telegraph Department for the Ten Years ended 31st March, 1908, and for the Years 1881-82 and 1891-92.

Personal. The Hon Sir John Hall, K.C.M.G., formerly Premier of New Zealand, who was also PostmasterGeneral and Commissioner of Telegraphs, 1866-69, and 1879-81, died at his residence at Christchurch on the 25th June, 1907. _ n . _ „ w . _ , IftA _ Sir Spencer Walpole, Chairman of the Pacific Cable Board, died on r the 7th July, 1907. On the 29th July, 1907, Sir H. W. Primrose, X.C.8., C.5.1., 1.5.0., Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, was appointed one of the representatives of His Majesty's Government on the Pacific Cable Board, and Chairman of the Board, in succession to the late Sir Spencer Walpole. News was received on the 22nd May, 1908, that Mr. C. H. Reynolds, CLE., General Manager of the Pacific Cable Board, had died at Lisbon, whither he had gone as a delegate to the International Telegraph Conference. Mr. Reynolds was appointed General Manager of the Pacific Cable Board in 1901. Staff. The following alterations have been made in respect of the titles of various officers as from the Ist April 1907 • From Electrician, to Chief Electrician ; from Chief Clerk (Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin ' Wellington), to Assistant Postmaster ; from Senior Money-order and Savings-bank Clerk (Chi -f Post-offices), to Accountant; from Storekeeper, to Controller of Stores ; from Assistant Storekeeper, to Assistant Controller of Stores ; from Mail-room Supervisor (Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington), to Chief Mail Clerk. Mr J G Ballard was appointed to the new office of Inspector of Telegraph Offices on the Ist April, 1907 It was decided, in consequence, on the 21st October, 1907, to establish an Inspector of Telegraph Offices' Branch in the General Post Office (approximately on the same footing as that of Inspector of Post-offices) and to allot a staff to deal with the business of the Telegraph Division of the service, which had formerly been managed partly in the Secretary's Office and partly in the Accountant's Branch. _ Mr G B Dall, Assistant Inspector of Post Offices, Central District, was promoted to the position of'inspector of Post Offices on the Ist July, 1907, in succession to Mr. D. Gumming. On the 31st March, 1908, Mr. Duncan Cumming, Controller of Money-Orders and Savings-Banks and Accountant, retired on pension, after over thirty-eight years' service. Mr. J. L. H. Ledger, Assistant Controller of Money-Orders and Savings-Banks and Assistant Accountant, was promoted to be Controller and Accountant in succession to Mr. Cumming. Mr. R. B. Morris, Assistant Postmaster, Wellington, was promoted to the newly created position of Inspector of Savings-Banks on the Ist April, 1908. . ' ~ As Nelson now transmits inland messages for North and South Island, and as cable-traffic also is sent from Wakapuaka to Nelson for transmission, the staff at Wakapuaka has been considerably rpduoccl • * The salaries of non-permanent postmasters and telephonists throughout the Dominion are m course of revision. The total number of officers on the staff on the 31st March was as under :— 31st March, 1908. Postmaster-General Classified staff: — First Division ... ... • • • • • • • • ■ • • • " * o icq Clerical Division ... ■•• •■■ ••• ••• ••• A >^° Non-clerical Division ... ... ■•■ ■•• ••• ••• Telegraph message-boys... ... ■•■ •■• ••• ••• ' U4: Total, classified staff ... ... ••• ■•• ••• 3,777

Year. Revenue. Expenditure. Balance of Revenue over Expenditure. £ 234,529 s. d. 8 0 £ s. 233,291 10 d. 4 £ s. 1,237 17 d. 8 881-82 320,058 1 3 268,343 1 1 51,715 0 2 1891-92 1898-99 1899-1900 1900-1901 1901-1902 1902-1903 1903-1904 1904-1905 1905-1906 1906-1907 1907-1908 445.770 7 1 488,245 16 4 503,835 19 oi 488,573 1 IH 525,098 17 3* 580.771 4 54633,305 12 7* 684,878 11 2 746,249 16 Oh 822,639 8 % 390,197 8 6 390,448 1 7 418,271 16 11 465,756 9 5 487,814 10 0 526,746 14 5 559,921 1 5 578,726 11 7 619,121 0 9 709,024 16 2 55,572 18 97,797 14 85,564 2 22,816 12 37,284 7 54,024 10 73,384 11 106,151 19 127,128 15 113,614 12 7 9 64 6* 3* Oi 2* 7 3i Total for ten year? £773,340 4 5*