MERRY CHRISTMAS.
BRISK HOLIDAY TRAFFIC. LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS. With the advent of Christmas the holiday rush on the railways and stoamers has commenced. There Were large numbers of traveller! JreiWrday# and the mail train was aboiit htlf-ate hour late in Teaching New Plymouth last night. _ The accommodation on the JRairawa will be fully taxed on her trip to Onehunga to-night. From present in* dicatlons the volume of traffic over the holidays bids fair to establish a record for the past five or six years. The mail and telegraph buain«a» iq now particularly busy, and last night's mail was exceptionally heavy. The par* eel post has been very heavy, as welt if the mail matter generally. The overseas mails have been large, and those from England and America have increased the work considerably. To-day the npail* room clerks awl telegraph operators. (i< pect to be going at high pressure, an 4 the volume of business is anticipated to be largely in excess of past years. t Regarding the telegraph office, th« operators and other officials appeared ti have their hands full yesterday deallu with the large number of "wires" tkal are being sent and received. The prei sure, however, has not yet reached lti mavimum, and a flood of telegrams con veying Christmas greetings is expectei i to-day. Citizens are asked to send thel "wires" as early as possible, and ar warned that on Christmas Eve the tele grams for offices which close at 6 o'ctool. in the evening will be dealt with first This means that deliveries from main stations cannot be undertake under twenty-four hours after the tejln grams have been put in at the Bending office.
It is fortunate that the cable across Cook Strait, which had been damaged! lias been repaired by the cable fris, and is available for the Christmas trade. The loss of the use of the cable tor twenty days would have meant that approximately 4000 telegrams would have to be sent on an auxiliary cabl# when it was working at its full capai city. r^,
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 4
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342MERRY CHRISTMAS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1919, Page 4
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