POST AND TELEGRAPH.
. THE CHRISTMAS TRAFFIC. While most people are : taking, lifa quietly under the influence of the pleasurable timo which comes with Ctastmas, the . toilers in the, Post and ielegraphs Office are working their hardest in order that the public might receive the goodly messages, letters, Christmas cards, and presents which help so materially to make the. season what - it should be-tho happiest timeof all the' year. To show what a task the officials have to copc with, there aro here appended a few figures, which indicate how the Christmas traffic is steadily growing, ihe postal figures for the four days preceding December 25 are as follow:—* Stamp Received. Dispatched. sales. Bags Ham-Bags Ham- ; ' pers. pers, £ i. d. 1310 ...... 2743 .577 3076 1010 4022 10 G jgo3 2702 763, 2314 5-15 3763 0 0 The telegraphic business has been summarised as follows:— Forwarded Reoeived Transmitted 1910 19,771 .18,27* . 29,3U 1909 21,013 : .19,376 ' ' 56.590
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19101230.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
154POST AND TELEGRAPH. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in