A BUSY MONTH

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20499, 16 May 1938, Page 12

A BUSY MONTH

HEAVY TASKS FOR POST OFFICE REMINDER TO MOTORISTS May is one of the busiest months for the Post Office and this is not wholly due to the immense amount of work at the counters in connection with the re-licensing of motorvehicles. At least 280,000 of these transactions have to be completed before the end of this month, and during the same period 4 30,000 or mere New Zealanders will be paying their quarterly levy of 5s under the Employment Promotion Act. This is now due, and the last date for avoiding the penalty for late payment is May 31. Another Post Office activity involving extra work for the counter staffs during May is the handling of the annual declarations of income other than wages or salary. The volume of work in this connection will be increased this year owing to the industrial and occupational census which is being taken at the same time as the declaration of income. The census paper has to be filled in by every male over the age of 20 years and every female, excepting domestics, whose income exceeds £SO per annflm. These are the special Post Office tasks at the counters during May. But it will also carry on its normal business of selling employment stamps, and the immense number necessary to maintain the big volume of New Zealand’s mails. Then there are the toll charges to collect—the monthly number of separate toll calls largely exceeds a million—and on May 23 the Post Office will be the principal medium of distributing the old-age and other classes of pension.

As several of the activities which have been enumerated come to a climax towards the end of the month, Post Office staffs throughout New Zealand will appreciate early attention by motorists to the re-licensing of their vehicles.