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Table No. 15— continued. Comparative Table showing the Progress of the Telegraph Department during the Financial Years ended 31st March, 1895, to 31st March, 1916.

Table No. 16. Table showing the Cash Revenue derived from Paid Telegrams of all Codes, the Value of Franked Government Telegrams, and the Number of Telegrams transmitted in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand for the Twelve Months ended 31st March, 1916.

Year ended Number of Miles of Line. Number of Miles of Wire. <h d So •S" Sis Number of dur Telegram; ■ing the Yi forwarded ; ir. ' Revenue (including MiscellaneousReceipts). Telegraph. Telephone. li §1 Total Total Value of ExpendiBusineps ture done {excluding during Cablo the Year. Subsidy). il o -Private and Press. Government. Total. J 31st Mar., 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 - 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 5,961$ 6,245$ 6,284J 6,484 6,730 6,910 7,249$ 7,409 7,748J 7,779J 7,9431§ 8,3155 8,953 9,650 10,404 10,901 11,310 11,805 12,508 13,044 13,434 13,084 14,881$ 15,764-} 16,470f18,024 18,746 19,228 20,082 -j! 21,705. 22,672| 22,920J 23,704 25,116 27,031 29,3143 312,054 34,788 37,212 39,370 41,892 44,642 40,778 48,052 705 743 780 824 878 915 991 1,038 1,103 1,153 1,200 1,312 1,446 1,611 1,704 1,871 1,903 2,079 2,203 2; 305 2,380 2,413 1,802,182 1,899,032 2,285,001 2,469,415 2,'717,548 3,159,093 3,534,444 3,850,391 4,271,218 4,671,904 4,900,495 5,351,084 6,160,080 6,958,279 7,338,017 7,757,128 8,268,340 8,971,725 9,850,379 10,594,550 10,716,013 10,708,910 231,618 224,579 235,168i 226,818 243,190 310,538 363,684 317,590 288,086 293,293 259,250 289,135 2316,252 84,044 87,070 89,762 92,3107 91,408 93,893 99,476; 111,355 127,841 £ £ 2,033,800 88,459 21,552 2,124,211 97,178 25,933 2,520,169 100,385 29,248 2,696,233 99,798 ' 36,422 2,960,738 105,576 39,718 3,469,631 11,9,641 43,303 3,898,128 137,861 49,117 4,167,981 151,933 55,542 4,559,304 100,3143 62,151 4,905,197 160,5,35 ! 71,028 5,159,745 171,001 79,061 5,040,219 184,369 89,542 6,396,338 206,700 100,814 7,042,923 227,3198 1.10,852 7,425,093 238,103 131,249 7,846,890 250,212 144,298 8,360,647 272,942 .1.61,173 9,063,133 295,3314 1.79,123 9,944,272 321,951 201,237 10,694,0,32 342,595 232,190 10,827,968,356,306 303,856 10,830,751 549,627 287,547 £ 26,051 25,844 23,119 24,505 25,500 29,432 35,327 27,508 26,440 24,378 20,598 24,168 17,487 4,499 4,822 4,851 4,874 4,832 4,931 5,031 5,776 9,085 £ 136,062 148,955 152,752 160,725 170,794 192,376 222,305 234,984 248,9314 261,941 270,600 298,079 3125,007 348,749 374,174 3199,361 438,989 479,289 528,119 579,816 665,938 846,259 £ 135,791 143,665 153,484 165,198 173,152 181,634 194,014 212,180 228,185 245,805 258,977 276,580 291,359 357,581 394,649 411,296 446,709 469,716 509,496 563,108 612,665 658,572 £ 0,492 4,774 3,972 1,849 1,427 1,608 1,000 234 181 10,057 Notk—Tar: For twelve word: text and signatu 1906: Por oach iff, 1890 : i, and fi-ot ro made e additional Is. for ton won ii address and sif lightoon. 1890: I word after first Is, and free [nature, ord First twolv twelve, Jd. i address . linary tole; 'o words, f and signature up to ten words grams, Is.; delayed, 6d. Lat< 3d. ; oach additional word, Id. ; delaj ir in 18S ; addre red telcgr: (2 tho nun iss and sig tins, Od. aber of w [nature p: 1892 : -ords in aid for.

Postal District. Revenue derived from Paid Telegrams of all Codes. s —of ™: s;r msz 0 ! «™r Total Number of Telegrams of all Codes. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch Dunedin Gisborne ttreymoutli Hokitika Invercargill Napier Nelson ... • New Plymouth .. Oamaru Thames Timaru ... ; Wanganui Wellington Westport £ 79,487 5,949 38,642 310,5310 12,270 6,699 2,451 17,504 25,755 8,904 13,739 5,83(0 '. 11,428 11,262 20,410 9.1,290 3,917 £ 1,116 185 671 456 226 179 8 269 215 506 95 50 180 1.24 111 4,521 173 £ 80,603 6,134 39,313 310,986 12,490 0,878 2,459 17,773 25,970 9,470 13,8354 5,886 11,608 11,386 20,527 95,811 4,090 2,259,125 184,848 993,282 808,804 292,018 162,121 08,198 521,022 817,905 328,511 414,047 130,907 332,139 310,184 015,1831 2, .308,933 95,023 18,132 3,523 12,136 9,074 5,290 3,018 109 5,920 4,273 11,118 1,940 1,291 2,470 2,090 1,980 40,700 31,433 2,277,257 188,371 1,005,418 817,878 297,314 165,739 08,367 : '526,942 822,178 339,029 415,987 132,258 334,009 318,880 617,169 2,409,699 99,056 Totals, 1915-16 386,138 9,085 3195,224 10,708,910 127,841 10,8310,751 Totals, 1914-15 3147,597 5,777 353,373 .10,716,613 111,3355 10,827,968