New Zealand Gazette – 1911 – No. 34

Page 1421

✨ Telegraph Business Statistics

APRIL 27.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1421

STATEMENT of TELEGRAPH BUSINESS within the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1911.

POSTAL DISTRICTS.	Number of Offices open to public	Ordinary Telegrams, including Paid Government Telegrams.	Urgent Ordinary Telegrams.	Press Telegrams.*	Bureau Communications.	Total.
		Number.	Amount.	Number.	Amount.	Number.
		£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.	£ s. d.
Auckland	433	332,870	10,129 12 0	18,342	1,122 9 4	11,599
Blenheim	78	28,538	838 14 6½	855	59 7 0	530
Christchurch	208	163,326	5,104 3 7	6,465	463 3 7	8,465
Dunedin	205	138,319	4,297 15 4½	4,454	287 16 4	6,344
Gisborne	34	35,608	1,242 13 4½	1,812	128 4 5	2,037
Greymouth	30	34,614	1,096 9 5½	982	67 12 11	1,100
Hokitika	49	11,626	360 0 4	224	15 4 7	478
Invercargill	164	61,417	1,875 17 1	1,151	77 15 5	2,301
Napier	86	81,861	2,478 17 10	3,760	225 16 11	2,551
Nelson	79	37,217	1,105 6 0	1,332	80 16 2	23,764
New Plymouth	65	42,388	1,246 16 3	1,935	110 9 4	1,600
Oamaru	43	17,479	541 10 11½	350	25 6 2	166
Thames	59	50,110	1,479 11 4½	2,436	139 8 4	972
Timaru	60	38,018	1,129 5 10½	1,175	69 18 0	1,234
Wanganui	123	99,423	3,028 18 10½	4,374	250 6 7	2,681
Wellington	208	296,095	10,079 14 4½	13,532	806 2 10	42,841
Westport	39	24,635	765 14 2	855	65 12 0	760
Totals first quarter in 1911	1,963	1,493,544	46,801 1 5½	63,984	3,995 9 11	109,423
Totals first quarter in 1910	1,871	1,426,492	44,540 13 10½	72,517	4,444 17 9	102,804

The bulk of Press telegrams are forwarded as "Collect" on delivery.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1911.

D. ROBERTSON,
Secretary.

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1911, No 34

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🚂 Statement of Telegraph Business by Postal District (Quarter ended March 31, 1911)

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated22 April 1911
KeywordsTelegraph business, Postal districts, Statistics, Revenue, Telegrams, Press telegrams, Bureau communications, New Zealand, Quarter ended March 1911
👩‍💼 Officials

D. Robertson, Secretary

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