POSTAL BUSINESS.
A BUSY CHRISTMAS
{By Telegraph — Prest Association.) CffiUSTOHUKOH, Last Night. A statement of the Xmas postal and telegraphic business done in the D - minion 'between 'December 20th and 24th was supplied to*.a reporter today by the Hon. R., Heaton Rhodes, Postmaster-General. The statement, as compared with the corresponding period last year, shows an increase of 2*75 pei- cent, in stamps, an advaiK.o from 39,044 to 49,735, or 27.38 per cent in the number of mail bags and hampers forwarded and received ; forwarded telegrams rose from 95,971 in 1912 to 100,092 this year; received telegrams from 112,112 to 125,200, and transmitted messages from 156,228 to being an increase in telegraphic business of 17.04 per cent.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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116POSTAL BUSINESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 December 1913, Page 5
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