Post and Telegraph Department.

Manawatu Herald, 5 July 1902, Page 2

Post and Telegraph Department.

THE ANNUAL REPORT.

The annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department was laid on the table of the House yesterday by Sir Joseph Ward (Postmaster-General.) - The results of the year, the Minister says, are probably the most noteworthy in the history of the department. Notwithstanding the introduction of penny postage, Jhe gross revenue, which might have been expected to show a serious drop, is only less by £15.26* than that for the previous year.' The "~ popular sixpenny telegram, although - its increasing numbers have resulted in a sharp rise in the expenditure on salaries for additional operators and for telegraph maintenance, bids fair shortly to produce a balance of revenue over expenditure, instead of a deficit, as has been the case for so many yeatSi Since the introduction of the sixpenny telegram in 1896 the number of forwarded ordinary and urgent telegrams has more than doubled in the six years—namely, from 1,701,524 to 3,521,986, an increase little short of phenomenal. That the penny post, which involved the handling of close upon thirteen million additional letters, has been successfully introduced and - carried on while the increased expenditure for postal salaries was only £6468, may fairly be credited to careful management. -further increase in the volume of work will prove more costly, and an increased expenditure on this account may be looked for. The balance of expenditure oyer revenue in the -Telegraph Department was £4939 6s 4d, and the balance of revenue over expenditure in the Postal Department was £27,755 18s Adding the value of the free official correspondence and Government telegrams, there is a credit balance on the .■ year’s transactions of £112,466 tos ojd. During the year 48,370,8x6 letters were posted, equal to 62.18 letters to each bead of the population, an increase of 12,185,771. The percentage of letters , , to each head of the population is ; be • lieved to be the the worldo'.:

>. TlflttttgHnercase on all' tetters dealt with 12.881,969.. The number of forwarfied telegrams of all codes was 4,167,981, an increase 01269.853. There were Issued 405,967 money orders, for £1,286,508 is rod, and- 283,611 orders, representing £1,108,399 6s .ad were -paid; 556,316 postal notes, of the value of. £173,317 ss, were sold. The sum of £4,611,456 6s xd was deposited in the Post Office Savings Banks, and £4,230193 6s 2d withdrawn. The total amount' to credit of depositors on the 3iat December last was £6,350,013915 2d, as compared with £5,809,553 5s 3d at the close of the previous year.

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