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Table No. 14. Table showing the Number of Letters, Letter-cards, Post-cards, Packets, Newspapers, and Parcels posted in New Zealand, and the Number received from beyond the Colony, during the Year ended 31st December, 1897.

Articles subject to Postage. Articles exempt from Postage. Parcels. Service. Letters. Lettercards. Post-cards. Packets, including Printed Matter (except Newspapers), Commercial Papers, and Samples of Merchandise. Newspapers. Tetter, I Paokpts Registered | Newsletters. ; Packets. ArticleSi papers. Number. Weight. Postage. Declared Value. Ordinary, j ggj Single. |™*** Ordinary. Registered. Posted. 837,175 165,186 351 ' 4,473 90 4,197 Lb. £ s. d. £ s. d. Inland 125,618,666 i 159,541 757,172 1,306,152 i 5,058 11,670,570 22,987 ;8,103, 326 2,709,900 331,232 j 69,382 580,593 9,627 15 0 Intercolonial .. 685,725! 59,637 6,392 9 j 127,677 3,748 488,161 31,924 1,467 1,388 9,916 290 11 10 [ 8,153 0 International .. 904,195 27,208,586 19,024 7,645 1,320,189 16 i 183,025 2,411 747,986 9,339,473 7,164 400 1,584 9,510 424 4 10 Totals .. 238,202 757,172 5,083 I 111,981,272 29,146 2,748,988333,099 72,354 8,153 '0 I 837,616 173,856 600,019 ,10,342 11 8 Received. Intercolonial .. International .. Totals .. .. I 813,864 14,997 .. I 1,138,269 23,817 I .. 1,952,133 38,814 6,953 9,555 16,508 13 28 I l,225,014J 1,041,219: 2,266,233 2,519 3,142 5,661 1,322,696 2,761,372 : 18,002 2,115 3,080 2,293 367 410 92 96 7,956 I 15,742 23,033 J 1,087 3 0 _ .. 53,002 i 2,170 7 5 I 76,035 I 3,257 10 5 [41,820 0 41 21,082 j 4,408 i 23,698 41,820 0 14,084,068 777 188