POSTAL BUSINESS.
——9 LARGE INCREASE. LAST YEAR'S OPERATIONS. The following comparative return showing the business transacted, by the Post and Telegraph Department during the years ended March 31, 1912 and 1913, was furnished to a Dominion reporter yesterday by the Hon. R. H. Rhodes, Post-master-General. Tho Minister said that he thought it unnecessary to make any detailed comment on tho figures, but mentioned that the excess of deposits over withdrawals for the month of April last was -C 57.217 Is. fid.:— MONEY ORDERS. Percentage Year. Year, of mItem. 81-3-12. 31-3-13. crease. £ £ Money-orders issued 2,864,424 3,277,571 13.63 Money-orders paid 2,531,887 2,925,583- 15.55 SAVINGS BANK FIGURES. , £ £ Deposits 11,740,345 11,325,603 »3.53 Withdrawals .... 10,902,736 11,303,073 3.67 Balance at credit of depositors... 15,738,976 16,273,165 ?.39 Postal notes sold 575,178 627,443 9.08 POSTAL REVENUE. £ & , Money-order and postal note commission 23,858 25,833 8.2S 1 Miscellaneous ... 26,018 26,071 .20 Stamp's 562,622 591,922 ' 5.21 TELEGRAPH EARNINGS. cS oB , Telegrams 294,334 321.951 9.38 Telephones 179,124 201,237 12.34 " The expenditure was ' 986,527 1,066,772 8.13 "Decrease.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1762, 29 May 1913, Page 5
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164POSTAL BUSINESS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1762, 29 May 1913, Page 5
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