Post and Telegraph Department.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 84, 5 October 1895, Page 2

Post and Telegraph Department.

The annual report of the PostmasterGeneral upon the Post and Telegraph Department states that the revenue from this department of the public service showed a fairly satisfactory increase, although the telegraph receipts fell short of the estimate. The revenue totalled £357,---449 14s 9d, and the expenditure £299,971 Is 4d, leaving a credit balance of £57,478 13s sd. If to the balance of receipts over expenditure is added the value of Government telegrams and the estimated value of official correspondence, the balance in favour of the department for the year is increased to L 142.603 11s. During the year 222,678 money orders valued at L 776.783 4s lid were issued, and 174,810 orders amounting to L 678.556 Is were paid, while 310,360 postal notes were sold an increase of 33,255 in number, and L 11.995 in amount over 1893. The deposits in the Post Office Savings Bank amounted to L 2,252,562 6s lid, and the withdrawal* to L 2,268,624 83 4d, Tbe the total sum standing to iho credit of depositors on December 3 1st, .2894, wag L3 t 34'i,579 11s^d,a3 against L 3,241,998 7a 10d at the end of 1893. The telephone subscribers at the end of March ot this year numbered 4616, and the subscripI tiqns amounted to L 21.552 12s lOd. The \ number of officers now in the Post and ! Telegraph Department is 2709, as compared to 2603 in 1893.