New Zealand Gazette – 1918 – No. 64

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✨ Telegraph Business Statistics

STATEMENT of TELEGRAPH BUSINESS within the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1918.

POSTAL DISTRICTS.	Number of Offices open at End of Quarter.	Ordinary Telegrams, including Paid Government Telegrams.	Urgent Ordinary Telegrams.	Press Telegrams.*	Bureau Communications.	Total.
		Number. Amount.	Number. Amount.	Number. Amount.	Number. Amount.	Number. Amount.
Auckland	. .	. .	. .	605 349,787 13,453 2 3½	22,366	1,734 15 9½
Blenheim	. .	. .	. .	96 95,035 1,009 16 7	1,459	106 5 1½
Christchurch	. .	. .	. .	229 164,468 6,123 17 7	10,034	385 10 1
Dunedin	. .	. .	. .	242 131,109 5,445 6 0½	5,968	522 7 5
Gisborne	. .	. .	. .	39 35,944~ 1,595 0 11½	2,500	197 16 4½
Greymouth	. .	. .	. .	41 25,323 1,086 3 4	1,243	116 4 0
Hokitika	. .	. .	. .	52 8,290 336 12 6	307	15 6 10½
Invercargill	. .	. .	. .	204 55,301 2,187 14 1	1,740	137 12 11½
Napier	. .	. .	. .	89 75,490 2,999 3 3½	5,499	349 3 11½
Nelson	. .	. .	. .	101 33,809 1,375 10 1½	2,080	136 13 4
New Plymouth	. .	. .	. .	108 57,390 2,237 12 8½	4,103	235 0 9½
Oamaru	. .	. .	. .	51 11,223 688 9 a*	797	49 7 5½
Thames	. .	. .	. .	78 48,657 1,881 16 2½	2,432	181 16 5
Timaru	. .	. .	. .	73 33,134, 1,280 5 5	1,247	91 14 2½
Wanganui	. .	. .	. .	105 77,661 3,010 6 10½	5,915	399 19 3½
Wellington	. .	. .	. .	204 361,533 13,363 4 9½	33,636	3,456 9 4
Westport	. .	. .	. .	54 14,868 575 19 0½	797	72 7 11½
Totals 1st quarter in 1918	. .	. .	. .	2,371 521,072 64,100 1 1½	102,196	8,688 11 4½
Totals 1st quarter in 1917	. .	. .	. .	2,409 531,541 63,312 1 7½	33,379	7,147 4 1½

The bureau telegrams are forwarded as "Collect" on delivery.

General Post Office, Wellington, 1st May, 1918.

W. R. MORRIS, Secretary.

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🚂 Statement of Telegraph Business by Postal Districts

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated1 May 1918
KeywordsTelegraph, Postal Districts, Quarterly Report, Statistics, General Post Office
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W. R. Morris, Secretary

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