POST AND TELEGRAPH.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH.

$> SOME REVENUE KETURXS. The number of drdinary telegrams disc patched from Wellington postal district during last quarter was. 296,095, returning revenue .010,07!). Urgent telegrams numbered 13,532, returning .ESOG. Auckland ' postal district font out 332,870 ordinary telegrams and 18,342 urgent messages. Tho total rewmo from all sources, telegram mid telephone bureau communications throughout New Zealand for last quarter, was £71,171 10s. 9d.', S5 against ,£GG,OGS 9s. 9d. for the same periou last yen!'. Tho total number of postal notes sold in New Zealand during the quarter ending March 31, 1911, was i20,10J, valued nt .£133,7(14. Commission yielded amounted to ,C 1916 16!.. 9(1. The Wellington postaL district issued 71,525 0C2.'),619), tho commission thereon being .£331. Tho money orders issued for the last quarter in thn Wellington postal district totalled 21,287 and tho value j;i02,?27. For the Dominion 1 ho number was 115,015 and the amount .C66i),353. The nmiibor of Post Office Savings Ban); accounts opened in Wellington (luring the quarter was 45GG. closed 3453; amount oj deposits, ,£537,266; withdrawals, .£48f,023i excess of deposits over withdrawals, .£53,212.. The excess of' deposits over withdrawals for (lie whole Dominion wsa 0:323,501. , ■ The total postal and telegraph revenue collected in the Auckland postal' district during last quarter (all sources) wn « JMMI Clinslchureh, X'2(i.7«; 1) uiedin J.'lS,Uli Wellington. .C-10,275. The for tho Dominion was .£250,513 (last velusame period, .£224,53.1). • ""'