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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR 1923-24.

CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Beceipts and Payments ... ...1,10 Stores Branch ... ... ... 16 Beduction in Postage-rates ... ... 1 Workshops ... ... ... 16 Telephone Income ... ... ... 2 Bicycles ... ... ... ... 16 Telephone Charges ... ... 2 Missing Postal Packets ... ... 17 Telephone Service ... ... ... 2 Post Office ... ... ... 17 Telegraph and Telephone Circuits ... 2 Articles Delivered ... ... ... 17 Badio Broadcasting ... ... 3 Undeliverable Postal Packets ... 18 Cook Strait Telephone-cable ... 3 Miscellaneous ... ... ... 18 Labour Bureaux at Post-offices ... 3 Prohibited Postal Packets ... ... 19 Inspection of Post-offices ... ... 3 Register of Newspapers and Magazines 19 Staff Efficiency ... ... ... 3 Postage-stamps ... ... ... 19 Promotion by Merit ... ... 4 Parcel-post ... ... ... 19 Reclassification: Revaluation of Positions 4 Telegraph and Toll Traffic ... ... 20 Work performed for other Departments 4 Cable Traffic ... ... ... 21 War-loan Certificates ... ... 5 Wireless Traffic ... ... ... 22 Money-orders ... ... ~.5,20 Telegraph and Toll Lines ... ... 22 Postal Notes ... ... ... 6, 20 Number of Telegraph - offices in the British Postal Orders ... ... 6 Dominion ... ... ... 23 Savings-bank ... /.! .... 6 Machine-printing Telegraphs ... 23 Opening of Ledger Offices ... 6 Universal Battery ... ... ... 23 Marine Post-office ... .... ... 7 New Zealand Submarine-cables ... 23 Inland-mail Services ... ... 7,15 Wireless ... ... ... ... 23 Rural Mail-deliveries ... ...... 7 Telephone-exchange Service... ... 24 Motor Transport ... ...' ... 7 Telephone Statistics ... ... 26 Buildings... ... ... ... 8,19 New Exchanges, Extensions, &c. ... 27 Telegraph Press Rates ... ... 8 Telephone Connections for Backblock Daily Letter-telegrams ... ... 8 Settlers... ... ... ... 28 Night Letter-telegrams ... ... 9 Telephone-exchange Receipts ... 28 Proposed Night Letter-telegrams to the Public Call Offices ... ... ... 28 Commonwealth of Australia ... 9 Private-line Circuits between Places of Postal Congress ... ... ... 9 Business ... ... ... 28 Imperial Radio Communication ... 9 Telephone-exchange Plant ... ... 28 Personnel... ... ... ... 10 Automatic-telephone-exchange InstalStaff ... ... ... ... 14 lations ... ... ... ... 28 Appeal Board ... ... ... 14 Automatic Extensions ... ... 30 Departmental Correspondence Classes 14 Examinations ... ... ... 14 a-dubim-tvi-v "Householder" Circulars ... ... 14 APIEJNDIX. British Empire Exhibition ... ... 15 Designations of Offices changed ... 32, Overseas Mails ... ... ... 15 Cable Business ... ... ... 32 Intercolonial Mail-service ... ... 15 Radio-telegrams ... ... ... 32 (For Index to Tables see page ii, and for Detailed Index see pages iii and iv.)