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1918.

NEW ZEALAND.

ANNUAL REPORT OP THE POST ANT) TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOE THE YEAR 1917.

Contents. PAGE PAGE Introduction ... ... ... 1 Ocean Mail-services ... ... 7 Receipts and Payments ... ... 2 Inland Mail-services ... ... 7 Expenditure ... ... ... 2 Buildings... ... ... ... 8 Staff ... ... ... ... 3 Money-orders ... ... ... 8 Health of Staff ... ... ... 3 Postal Notes ... ... ... 8 Personal and Staff ... ... ... 3 British Postal Orders ... ... 8 Examinations ... ... ... 4 Savings-bank ... ... ... 8 Curtailment of Services ... ... 4 Work performed for other DepartAuckland Post-office Inquiry ... 4 ments ... ... ... ... 8 Post-office Safe-deposit System ... 4 Telegraphs ... ... ... 9 Sugar for Soldiers ... ... ... 4 New Zealand Submarine Cable Service 10 The War and the Department ... 5 Ocean Cable Services ... ... 10 War Loans ... ... ... 5 Wireless Telegraphy ... ... 11 Telegraph Concession to Patriotic Telephone Exchanges ... ... 11 Bodies ... ... ... ... 5 Automatic Telephone Installations ... 11 Post and Telegraph Concession to Slot Telephones ... ... ... 12 Members of Legislature ... ... 5 Post Office ... ... . ... 5 Rates of Postage for Packets and Parcels 6 APPENDIX. Dead and Missing Letters ... ... 6 Prohibited Correspondence ... ... 6 Designation of Offices changed or corNewspapers ... ... ... 6 rected ... ... ... ... 13 Automatic Stamp and Post-card Vend- Inland Mail-services established ... 13 ing Machines ... ... ... 7 Subsidized Sea Mail-services ... 14 Postage-stamps ... ... ... 7 Cable Business ... ... ... 15 Registered-letter Envelopes ... ... 7 Radio-telegrams ... ... ... 16 (For Index to Tables see page ii, and for Detailed Index see pages iii and iv.)