POST OFFICE EARNINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 423, 3 August 1928, Page 8

POST OFFICE EARNINGS

INCREASE IN RETURNS

WELLINGTON, To-day. An increase in the earnings of Use Host and Telegraph Department is shown in the returns for the quarter ended June 30, gazetted last evening. The returns of the total post and telegraph revenue for the four cities is as follows: Auckland., .. £214,42# Wellington £159,333 Christchurch £128,032 Dunedin £43,460 Under the heading “postal revenue," the following are the returns for the second quarter of 1928, compared with the figures for the corresponding period of last year, in parentheses: Money order commission, £6.021 (£6.401): postages, £316,166 (£308,465): postal note commission, £5,559 (£3.875); total postal revenue for Dominion, £401,031 (£368,010). Telegraph revenue: Telegrams, £93,216 (£96,531); telephone exchanges, £317,869 (£290.214): total telegraph, £525,522 (£485,908). The total number of money orders issued for the second quarter of lS2b were 193.901, for a total amount of £1,144,203, as against 193.499 for £1,166,162 for the corresponding period last year. In the savings bank branch a total of 23,925 accounts were opened, against 23,938 opened in the same period of 1927. The amount of deposits war£6,928,669, against £7,108,540 last year, while withdrawals were £7,455,671 and £7,853,591 respectively. The excess of withdrawals over deposits was £527,002, against £745.95# for the corresponding period of 1927. lation of filtration plants in both baths, dome months ago the council decided to place before the ratepayers a loan proposal with this end in View, but since then nothing has been done. Why? The winter is nearly over, swimming season almost here, and fa* trauon plants cannot be erected ia * day. Purely the council does not fear for the success of its loan proposal? L so, its fears are groundless. Every ratepayer interested in awimming ° r the health of the community will JP Vthe proposal his enthusiastic support. And if the council doubts the etucacy of a modern filtration and water stereiisation plant, let the Parks _ visit the magnificent plant installed a* the St. Cuthbert’s College water in which is still unchanged many months, and still crystal demand bacteriologically pure. _ . _ Present indications point to An landers being deprived of their swim ruing next season, and the cou** should move at once if this Is to - avoided. r , A syphon pipe has recently®®* constructed between tne Baths and the harbour, but th© . Department’s reports show clearly * this will not ensure the purity oi water in the baths. _ i s Filtration is the remedy. 11 , time the council ceased dozmS* awoke to the necessity for action. The council can haroiy termed popular now. but if ® apathy and “sleeping-sickness prives Aucklanders of their sWI next season, there will be faces after the next municipal ei Swimming enthusiasts have c _ j B gotten the part played by Tne j, securing the concreting or tne ~n r Baths, and we feel that we 0311 the on your support in this appe® council to “get busy” before i lat “- K. HARLEY PEVEBEP*. NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS “M.S.” —The gaol authorities ra?; 1 have some effective means or * lining refractory prisoners, yo They can’t go to an old and barSt ened offender and make hOT into teaxs by saying : naughty!”—Ed. The Sun.