THE POST OFFICE
REVIEW OF ,THE; YEAR'S WORK,, The annual report' of tie Post and Telegraph Department for-'the financial year 1913-11 was presented to the House of .Representatives'by'the PostmasterGoneral (the J3oh. R. H. Ilbodee). yesterday afternoon. ~.,■'■" As an introduction, to the report, Mr. Rhodes' offered tho following remarks, summarising the contents of the re-, port:— ; . . ~ ' _ The business of the Department continues to be satisfactory... The excees of receipts over expenditure during the year was £96,606." A ; notablo feature of ;the year's working was the largo extension of telegraphic and telephonic facilities. ..No less than 1073, miles of pole line and 34,899 miles .of wire wero erected. The system of week-end cable messages has been extended during tho year to several countries, as shown in the report. Considerable.public attention, has-been, given to the .radio-tele-graphic service. The,increase;in Messages..over Jthe. previous/year .was . 54 per cent; for forwarded and 87. per cent. for •; -received', c6mmui:ications."-. The charge for radio-telegrams exchanged botween j ,£' n tele.grapl) office Dominion i andsh!^ps between Australia and New Zealand or 'botw.een, .New' • Zealand ■ port3~ has. been reduced' by.,', 50' per., cent. J pre-, partitions'are h'eing mado'for" the' installation; ' of, ,the automatic-telephone systom ; in the six-centres for which a tender was let last year. ■ In the indue-, trifil disturbance, which,took place.at the end of 1913 tho Department maintained mail communication with a minimum of Inconvenience to the public' The maximum amount on which interest is allowed in the Savings Bank was increased- from £600 to ■ £1000. A" system of transferring Savings Bank accounts be-, tween New.Zealand and Australia was inaugurated. •; '..' ■'•'.' ,- '. ;,,- ,'■■■ .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 9
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259THE POST OFFICE Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2190, 1 July 1914, Page 9
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