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Table No. 13. Table showing the Estimated Number of Letters, Letter-cards, Post-cards, Book-packets, Newspapers, and Parcels dealt with in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand during the Year ended 31st December, 1897.

Posted in the Colony. Received from Places outside the Colony. Total Correspondence dealt with. listrid is. c?r *-«••**■ Books. &c. Newspapers. Parcels. I Po f- Books, &c. cards. ' Letters. Letters. Newspapers. Parcels. Letters. Lettercards. Post-cards. Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Auckland Thames . New Plymouth Gisborne Napier . Wanganui Wellington Nelson Westport Greymouth . Hokitika Blenheim Christchurch Timaru Oamaru Dunedin Invercargill .. 5,506,267 905,502 286,546 1,697,852 1,476,462 5,894,564 566,553 209,859 398,008 203,762 374.725 ! 4.466 ,995 881,751 538.954 4.. 140.279 1,894,061 117,182 14,690 27.378 2,548 42,848 ! 63,895 i 147,316 I 13,689 1,950 5,59° 4,459 12,649 104,364 36,946 19,422 93,106 49,140 263,107 31,304 59,592 7,176 72,254 119,158 198,926 22,607 3,783 11,128 4,498 13,884 179,998 51,935 29,913 164,112 91,897 2,773,394 213,304 277,069 85,449 685,191 872,508 2,195,323 163,280 37,245 ■110,994 21,762 89,635 1,638,637 297,557 102,167 2,160,444 627,484 j ! 2,143,453 203,164 281,021 78,221 452,322 401,856 1,662,947 182,013 105,833 167,154 81,367 109,915 1,732,536 142,480 105,586 I 1,750,242 576,979 37,228 2,972 2,427 1,748 7,872 6,036 39,796 4,882 1,710 2,443 1,634 28,436 1,592 929 28,488 4,232 366,169 54,397 60,249 19,085 112,917 98,354 392,017 37,7O5 13,965 26,467 13,566 24,937 297,055 58,653 35,9io J 275,322 125,951 1 i 3,287 1 510,472 I 397 : 39,392 740 : 50,968 87 ! 15,801 900 > 126,140 1,492 i 162,632 2,487 ; 404,130 1 275 '• 30,092 i 45 J 6,858 I 137 ! 20,424 I 55 1 4,048 170 16,560 2,250 1 301,815 1 650 ; 54,832 375 I 18,918 2,052 397,690 1,150 115,617 16,549 2,276,389 5,285 12,598,674 I 860,086 81,463 112,765 31,301 i8i,437 161,323 667,361 73,036 42,538 67,017 32,555 44,143 695,453 57,015 42,537 702,275 231,951 5,059 394 326 231 1,060 816 5,399 652 231 33O 190 217 3,862 216 5,872,436 872,461 965,751 305,631 I,810,769 1,574,816 6,286,581 604, 258 223,824 424,475 217,328 399,662 4,764, O 5O 94°, 4°4 574,864 4,415,601 2,020,012 117,182 14,690 27,378 2,548 42,848 63,895 I47,3i6 13,689 1,950 5,590 4,459 12,649 104, 364 36,946 19,422 93,106 49,140 : 266,394 j 31,701 60,332 7,263 73,154 [ 120,650 ! 201,413 22,882 3,828 11,265 4,553 14,054 182,248 52,585 30,288 166,164 93,047 11,341 ,821 1,231,835 3,283,866 252,696 328,037 101,250 811,331 1,035,140 2,599,453 193,372 44,103 131,418 25,810 106, 195 1,940,452 352,389 121,085 2,558,134 743,ioi 3,003,539 284,627 393,786 109,522 633,759 563,179 2,330,308 255,049 148,37! 234,171 113,922 154,058 2,427,989 199,495 148,123 2,452,517 808,930 42,287 3,366 2,753 1", 979 8,932 6,852 45,195 5,534 1,941 2,773 1,621 1,851 32,298 1,808 1,056 32,504 4,804 127 4,016 572 Totals 30,260, 204 757,172 12,351,443*1 10,177,089 j i73,856t 2,012,719 4,084,256 23,698 14,627,832 14,261,345 197,55Previous year 1,325,272 13,694,996 32,272,923 29,787,763 757,172 27.874,353 654,290 [1,226,550 10,048,597 i 9,521,525 i 166,702 I,9I3,4IO I9,9O9 654,290 : 12,647,271 13,216,521 186,61 • Of these, packet-post. ickets prep; id more than Jd. inert :ased from 4,054,375 in 1896 to 5,643,339 in 1897 — i.e., 3919 per ci ait. f Small increase due to the diversion f parcels below 3 lb. in weight t(