BIG POST OFFICE PROFIT
PUBLIC CRITICISM ACTS AS TONIC. ; (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 21. The. Posthmnter-Genera.l, Mr H. B. Lees-tSunith, stated that, when the accounts of the Post Office for the,.last financial year are completed, they will show a record profit of approximately £9,250,000. He claimed for his department an average level of efficiency higher than that displayed in other industries. The criticism to which, as a public department, the Pest Office was open, acted as a tonic. Referring to the postal service, he said that it carried considerably more than 6,000,000 letters a year. As for the telephone service, The proportion of wrong calls was only 1 per cent in the provinces and 31 per cent in London, while the average time that subscribers had to wait before the operator answered a call was 6.4 seconds in the provinces and 5.3 seconds in London.
For the previous financial period the profit was £7,190,000.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1930, Page 5
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154BIG POST OFFICE PROFIT Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1930, Page 5
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