POST AND TELEGRAPH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 6

POST AND TELEGRAPH.

■DOMINION CHEISTMAS FIGUEES. .In'yesterday's Dosaxiox appeared the Telegraph Department in Wellington- for : the ..weefc- prior * to Christmas vDay «(from » ,17 .".to .;24);>:j On. inquiry... yesterday, itlio head- offico ,was -able; to supply '.completo /details ' ofthe; Christmas, "biici-, nessvfor - that period ' for - the' whole .of .New Zealand. The figures aro as follow ' * j < z - Postal. Telegiaph. and STor-Ile-\;r hampers, warded, ceived. Auckland 10,368 13,888 17,401 Blenheim 927 1,286 1,5i9 Christchurch . ' 7,075 8,012 12,851 Dunedin 1 5,970; . 7,351 10,332 iGisborne;'. 1,068 •• 2,729 - 2,662Grey mouth- .... 1,470 3,083 ;i ,>3,000 KoLitihft" 593 1,157 1,161 Invercargill ' "... 2,292 1 3,202 ' 3,800 Napier 2,202 4,331 1,557 .Nelson ' 1,402 2,465 2,724 ■Nov/ 'Plymouth ' 2,162 :> 2,071 .' 3,208; 'OarnaTU. • ■ ......... ■ .1,397 :,v. 1,283 1,480 Thames 722 1,143 1,!)17 Tunaru' " ' '■ ' 1,135 .■ . ,■ . ; 2,284 ■ Wanganui . 1,737 '-3,520 3,878 Wellington .... 12,649 21,672 20,201 Westport , > 1,030 „ 1,986 ,1,930 ;: v si/259 i { >V 94,395 Compiucd: with the figures.for the eamo period ■ last- year thero were 1974 moro , bags and' hampers of mail mattor . handled this" year-throughout' the. Dominion., The' number of: telegrams forwarded, ,was 177-short' of 'last.'-ycar's'v.Christmas...total;, but more than 3,199 telegrams weio received this year. The sale of stamps throughout jSpw Zealand during the v-eek immediately prior to Christmas amounted to .£24,82], 'of which £12,649 was rerened in Wellington, £10,368 m Auckland, £7075 in Christchurch, and X 5970 in Duncdin. Uio total "is JE2-123 more than was icalised 'for -the: corresponding period', last year, ~,,