POSTAL ACTIVITY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 702, 30 December 1909, Page 9

POSTAL ACTIVITY.

_J ♦ THE LOCAL CHRISTMAS TIGERES. The period fiom December 17 to 21 (inclusive) was a particularly hve<y one in the General Post Office. Theio was a substantial increase 111 the mails handled lteio during that period, as compared with tho corresponding, period for last year, and though tho number of telegrams received and dispatched aro not appreciably laige this year, tliero is a big increase 111 tho use of telephone bureaux throughout tho Dominion for purposis ordinarily coming within tho tunetion of tho telegraph service. Tho following are the postal figures (for Wellington only j — Number bags dispatched 14,628 NUmbci hampers dispatched ■ ■ 1,090 Isrfinbcr bags received 5,401 Number hampers received ... 1,527 Total _ .. 12,649 , Dnnng tho corresponding r en od of last year, .%il bags and hampers wero dispatched, and CC27 bags and hampers wero received. These figures show an increase of 272 packages. Tho telegraph business was also very I heavy, as is shown by tho following, tabic. — TransForwarded. Received, mittcd; I Dec. 21... 3,323 3,513 3,629 I Dec. 22 . 4.29G 3,710 3.71G Dec. 2J .. 1,520 4,279 5,993 Dec. 24.. 9,633 8,709 13,752 ' Totals . 21,672 20,201 27,090 'lhoro Was a heavy increaso in tho quantity of mail matter handled at tho Auckland Post Office between December 17 and 24. Daring that week 10,368 bags und hampers wero handled,. as against 9259 last year. Doctor—"Why, how is this, my dear sir p You send me a noto stating that you had boon attadked with mumps, and I find you suffering from rheumatism." Pntieut—"That's all right, doctor. There wasn't'a 'oul in tho houso that know how to spell rheumatism." Rheumatism, Gout, and Lumbago aro duo to tho presence of osress unc acid in your system. How can you hdpo to cure them by liniments and embrocations' You must get tho poison out'of tho blood, and RHEUMO will do it All chemists and stores, 2s. Od. and 4s. Gd-Advt. 16 King Alfonso XIII. is a general in the British army.