POST OFFICE BUSINESS
TOE CHRISTMAS RUSH. . Tho Postmaster-General has furnisher! tho following particulars of the Post and Telegraph business transacted at 11:8 seventeen chief offices in the Dominion on December 20, 22, 23, and 21: The stamp sales amounted to £25,'J02, on increase of 22.33 per cent, over Ilia rales for the corresponding period of llio previous year. The total number of bags and hampers of mail matter forwarded from and ",e----ceived at the seventeen offices was '13,151, an increase of 11.6 per cent. Of (hisnumber, 8513 were forwarded and received at Auckland, 8551 at Wellington, 7143 at Christchurch, and -1880 at Dulled in. Telegrams forwarded numbered 110,933, an increase of 37.78 per cent. Of these, 21,511 were forwarded from Auckland, 20,173 from Wellington, 14,513 from Christchurch, and 10,152 from Dunedin. Telegrams received numbered 151.917, an increase of 11.97 per cent.; and telegram transmits, that is, messages received and transmitted onward to other destinations, numbered 213,759, an increase of 43-85 per cent.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 94, 15 January 1920, Page 6
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162POST OFFICE BUSINESS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 94, 15 January 1920, Page 6
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