TELEGRAPHS & TELEPHONES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1455, 1 June 1912, Page 3

TELEGRAPHS & TELEPHONES.

INCREASED BUSINESS. [Bjt Toleeraou.-Prns* A*>nc!iiMon.i Rotorua, May 31. The Hon. H. 6. Ell, Postmaster-General, frho paid a short visit to Rotorua in connection with the question of the propose! sites for the new post ofhee Urro, informed n press representative to-; ay that the telegraph business "for April, 1912, showed a large increase over that for the corresponding month of 1011. There were 524,713 telegrams forwarded of the '-■aim! of' ,£16,143. an increase in numbers oi .61,437, and in value of .£2154. The _ i.crcenta"e increase in number was 1.i.3i ami in revenue 15.08. The telephone bui-ai* me«n"es showed a very large niweine. The iinmber rlenlt with was 221.?fi1. nl the value of ,CfiOs.i. an increase m niiiiiher of 47,102, and revenue .£1202, or ar increase per centum in number .;>f 27.0' and revenue 2H.35. There would nppeai to havo been an unusual expansion nl trade last month as compared with .April 1911 as the inereafe in telegraph busi ness is much alxive the normal. Mr. r.ll to-day opened a new post offiei dt Putaruru.'on the Auckland-Kotnriw railwav Speaking at the luncheon, h< <=;iid thai .Mr. was alwars com nlaininz that .Ministers, were perambulat in? round the countrv, but he considered it right and proper for' them to visit al parts of the country in order to maki themselves ocrmainted with their re nuirements. If Ministers were chainei to their office, tables at Wellington tin covcrnme.nt of the countrv wight us wel be handed over to the Undor-Secretanes o Departments.