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Table No. 12. Table showing the Estimated Number of Letters and Letter-cards, Post-cards, Book-packets, Newspapers, and Parcels posted and delivered in the several Postal Districts of New Zealand during the Year ended 31st December, 1923.

Posted in the Dominion. Delivered in the Dominion. Total posted and delivered. (1923). Letters and p . , Letter-cards. P° st - C arus. Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Letters and p ost . ear(ls Letter-cards. ™ Ma 'rtls Books, &e. Newspapers. Parcels ' Letters and ±-arcers. better-cards. Post-cards. Books, &c. Newspapers. Parcels. Auckland Blenheim Christchurch .. Dunedin Gisborne Greymouth Hamilton Invercargill Napier Nelson New Plymouth Oamaru Thames Timaru Wanganui Wellington Westport Western Samoa 29,218,144! 1,335,3711 15,444,7831 10,206,150 2,318,936 1.495,185 7,404,866: 5.818,807 0,037,097 2,038,735 4,066,743 1,329,004 2.708,229 2.626,841 4.919.881 24,711,089 784.025 94,410 724,178 18,434 430,742 377,676 24,115 20.046 177,229 169,728 79,846 38.987 81,874 56,121 38,428 63,076 110,526 524,404 13,104 1,600 10,802,559 381.345 5.094,250 3,897,676 619,147 282.259 1.343,321 1,743,214 2.022,422 359,271 1.098.012 372,111 609,071 649,296 1,515.995 10,569,090 91,670 2,109 4,516,633 193,427 1.780,730 1.539,413 557,033 243,880 856.459 627.593 655,087 188.832 4o3,067 127,413 291.037 211,445 750,544 3,875,457 123,500 8.900 900,263 25.280,463 19,916 1,466.777 438,438 16,986.645 332.462 9,660,703 44,473 2,743.8S4 39.988 1,880,177 109,408 9,324.601 82,875 6,348.628 104,845 7,085.221 45,344 2.234,245 70,278 4.821,908 21,723 1,484,288 45,617 3,580.811 49.166; 3,151,915 92,5341 4,960,436 928,315! 27,290,417 15.951! 1.047.332 612 115,212 645.203 26,637 833,144 336,037 56.615 31.941 253.513 178.451 146,510 40,014 118,872 78,468 114,387 103.441 119,483 534,912 32.929 2,622 7,571,733 355,927 4,704.089 3.107,923 1,099.813 37S.846 2,580,708 1,654 .575 '3,060,538 661,349 1,607,489 396.461 950,365 942.045 1,690.130 7.138,949 189,254 2.988 3,844,490 368,303 2,022,358 1,480,440 844.753 451,672 1,640,782 866.697 1,478.932 500,136 775,008 252,096 637,702 493,740 958,191 4,161,397 281,528 50.022 636,363 63.973 372.879 313,079 103.116 94.120 336,518 165,321 122.300 102.414 175.058 44,434 144.469 95.160 210,808 516.679 45,175 2,784 54,498,607 1.369,38118,374,292 8,361,123 1,536,626 2,802.148 45,071 737,272 561,730 83,889 32,431,428 1,263.886 9,798,339 3,803,088 811.317 19,866,853! 713,713 7,005,599 3,019,853 645,541 5,062.820! 80,730 1,718,960 1,401.786 147,589 3,375.362; 51,987 661,105 695,552 134,108 16.729,467i 430,742 3,924,029 2,497.241 445,926 12.167,435! 348,179 3,397,789 1,494.290 248.196 13,122,318 : 226,356 5,082,960 2.134,019 227,145 4,272.980 79.001 1,020,620 688,968 147,758 8,888.651! 200,746 2.705,501 1,258,075 245,336 2.813,292 134,589 768,572 379.509 66,157 6,289,040 152,815 1,559.436 928,739 190,086 5,778,756 166,517 1,591.341 705.185 144,326 9,880,317 ! 230,009 3,206.125 1,708,735 303.342 52,001,506 1,059.316 17,708,039 8,036.854 1.444,994 1.831,357 46,033 280.924 405,028 61,126 209,622 4,222 5,097 58,922 3,396 Totals . . 122,558,296 2,950,114 41,452,818 17,030,450 35,486,768 15,534,666 3,342,208429,463.663 3,653,179 38 093,182 21,108,247 3,544,650 252,021,959 6,603,293 79,546,000 38,138,697 6,886,851 20,100,553 3,480,127 239,997,081 6,277,42867, 578, 435 35,635, 2196, 700, 12 Previous year 117,047,262 2,841,939! 3,219,9941122,949,819 3,435,489 32,091,667