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PENSIONS— Miners, C.-2, 11, 12. PETROL— Mines Department report, C.-2, 3, 4. PLANT AND MACHINERY. See under PUBLIC WORKS. PLAYS AND SKETCHES— Broadcasting, F.-3, 3. Theatre and film broadcasts, F.-3, 7. POST AND TELEGRAPH— Department— Annual report — Bicyoles, F.-l, 16. Buildings and land, F.-l, 5, 15. Cables : Empire cable rates, F.-l, 4. Cables, New Zealand submarine— Cook Strait cables, F.-l, 25. Foveaux Strait cables, F.-l, 25. New inter-Island submarine telephone cable, F.-l, 25. Commercial branch, F.-l, 5, 14. Coronation medals, F.-l, 14. Correspondence schools : Reopening, F.-l, 4. Dead-letter office, F.-l, 19. Employment work, F.-l, 21. Examinations, F.-l, 13. Finance— Cable, radio-telegraph, and radio-telephone business transacted during the year as compared with previous year, F.-l, 39. Money-orders issued and money-orders payable in New Zealand since the year 1863, F.-l, 33. Paid telegrams and toll calls (including cable and radio messages and overseas toll calls) during the years ended 31st March, 1938 and 1937, F.-l, 38. Receipts and payments, F.-l, 3, 10— For the years 1881-82, 1891-92, 1901-2, 1911-12, 1921-22, and following years, F.-l, 33. Revenue and expenditure for the year : Graph, F.-l, 40. Revenue under separate headings : Graph, F.-l, 41. Savings-bank, F.-l, 3, 19, 35, 36, 43. Letters of credit, F.-l, 20. School savings-branch, F.-l, 20. Thrift clubs, F.-l, 20. Fruit-inspection-fee stamps, F.-l, 18. Total turnover : Graph, F.-l, 42. Inspections, F.-l, 19. Letters and letter-eards, post-cards, book-packets, newspapers and parcels, posted and delivered in the postal-districts of New Zealand during the year : Estimated number, F.-l, 37. Mail-services— Air, F.-l, 6, 17. Inland, F.-l, 16. Ocean, F.-l, 6, 16. Money-orders, F.-l, 19. Money-order-telegrajn service : Rarotonga and Niue, F.-l, 22. Motor-vehicles : Departmental, F.-l, 16. Motor-vehicles and associated work: Registration, F.-l, 20. Parcel-post service, direct: New Zealand and Jamaica, F.-l, 18. Parcels exchanged with other countries during the years 1936 and 1937 : Number and weight, F.-l, 34. Postage-stamps, F.-l, 18. Postal business, F.-l, 6, 45. Postal-notes, F.-l, 19. Postal-orders, British, F.-l, 19. Postal packets, missing, F.-l, 19. Post Office investment certificates, F.-l, 20. Post Office premises, &e. : Burglary, F.-l, 19. Radio-broadcasting— Advisory services for other Departments, F.-l, 27. Aeradio services, F.-l, 8, 26. Awarua Radio, F.-l, 26. Broadcasting reception : Interference, F.-l, 32. Broadcasting service, F.-l, 9, 31. Emergency radio stations, F.-l, 26. Kawau Island : Closing of radio station, F.-l, 26. Marchese Marconi, death of : Observance of two minutes' silence, F.-l, 26. Overseas radio-telephone service, F.-l, 10, 27. Private broadcasting stations, F.-l, 32. Private experimental stations, F.-l, 32. Private radio-communication services, F.-l, 26. Radio-dealers' licenses, F.-l, 32. Radio stations — Northern Cook Islands group, F.-l, 27. Proposed, at Nukunono, Union Islands, F.-l, 27.

POST AND TELEGRAPH—continued. Department—continued. Annual report —continued. Radio - broadcasting—continued. Radio-telegram charges from British ships to New Zealand, F.-l, 21. Radio-telegraph and telephone services, F.-l, 26. Receiving-station licenses, F.-l, 31. Wellington Radio, F.-l, 21. Staff, F.-l, 3 — Appeal Board, F.-l, 12. Appeal fee : Abolition, F.-l, 12. Classification list, F.-l, 12. Permanent— Health, F.-l, 11. Number : Graph, F.-l, 44. Personal, F.-l, 11. Persons employed in the Department, F.-l, 11. Post and Telegraph Officers' Sick Benefit Fund, F.-l, 13. Regrading, F.-l, 12. Regulations : Amendment, F.-l, 12. Salaries, &c., F.-l, 10 — Fortnightly pay, F.-l, 13. Minimum wage for male officers of adult age, F.-l, 12. Stores Branch, F.-l, 14. Suggestion Board, F.-l, 13. Telegraph and telephones— Carrier-current telephone systems, F.-l, 23. Coronation letter-telegram service, New Zealand and United Kingdom, F.-l, 22. Distribution of football news, South African Rugby team tour, F.-l, 22. Inland Christmas and New Year greetings telegram service, F.-l, 22. Inter-Island telegraph and telephone communication channels, F.-l, 7. International Telecommunications Conference, Cairo, 1938, F.-l, 5. Interphone equipment: Reduction in charge, F.-l, 29. Money-order-telegram service, Rarotonga and Niue Island, F.-l, 22. Overseas Christmas and New Year greetings telegrams, F.-l, 22. Poles and wires, F.-l, 25. Printing telegraphs, F.-l, 21. Public call offices, F.-l, 29. Switch-board accommodation, increases in, F.-l, 29. Telegrams and toll calls : Number, F.-l, 46. Telegrams to or from Kawau Island and other wireless-telegraph stations : Reduction in charges, F.-l, 21. Telegraph and telephone communication : Maintenance, F.—l, 24. Telegraph and toll systems : Extension, F.-l, 24. Telegraph batteries and power supply, F.-l, 21. Telegraph service, F.-l, 7. For Meteorological Offices, F.-l, 22. Telegraph traffic, F.-l, 21. Telephone density, F.-l, 27. Telephone directories, F.-l, 29. Telephone-exchanges : Services, F.-l, 8, 27, 28, 29. Telephones—Number : Graph, F.-l, 47, 48. Telephone statistics, F.-l, 30, 47, 48. Toll-room practice, F.-l, 23. Toll service, F.-l, 7, 22, 38, 46. Workshops, F.-l, 15. Work performed for other Departments, F.-l, 20. Mail services : Establishment of air-route facilities, D.-l, 68. Telegraphs : Extension, D.-l, xxxii. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. See under PUBLIC WORKS. PUBLIC DOMAINS. See under LANDS. PUBLIC WORKS— Annual statement, D.-l— Chief Electrical Engineer : Annual report— Broken wires and poles, D.-l, 107. Condensed review of electrical progress, D.-l, 108. Electrical accidents, D.-l, 114. Electrical fires, D.-l, 116. Electrical Supply and Electrical Wiring Regulations, D.-l, 113. Electrical wiremen : Registration, D.-l, 116. Electric-power Boards, D.-l, 102. Generating-schemes in operation— Design office, D.-l, 98. North Island electric-power system, D.-l, 82, 109, 119.

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