About £90,000 is collected in pennies each year by the Post and Telegraph Department from its stamp-vending machines and slot telephones. If this quantity of pennies was not returned to the banks for circulation without delay, a shortage of copper coins could easily develop. Such is the .public patronage of these services that more than £50,000 was spent in pennies each year in many hundreds of street telephone cabinets throughout the Dominion, and stamps to a value of nearly £40,000 are sold during the year by automatic stamp-selling machines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 2
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