New Zealand Gazette – 1927 – No. 4

Page 250

✨ Telegraph Business Statistics

STATEMENT of TELEGRAPH BUSINESS within the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND during the Quarter ended 31st DECEMBER, 1926.

Postal Districts.	Number of Offices open at End of Quarter.	Ordinary Telegrams, including Paid Government Telegrams.		Urgent Ordinary Telegrams.		Letter Telegrams.		Press Telegrams.		Toll Communications.		Total.
		Number.	Amount.	Number.	Amount.	Number.	Amount.	Number.	Amount.	Number.	Amount.	Number.	Amount.
			£ s. d.		£ s. d.		£ s. d.		£ s. d.		£ s. d.		£ s. d.
Auckland ..	405	302,668	14,341 9 0	16,683	1,552 0 2½	20,663	921 18 10	21,614	2,202 10 9	360,750	13,384 11 0	722,378	32,402 9 9½
Blenheim ..	91	21,809	1,033 13 3½	728	78 6 3	2,079	90 19 10	1,042	448 12 3	50,479	1,731 18 6	76,137	3,383 10 1½
Christchurch	190	166,636	7,844 3 1	9,602	975 18 7½	12,686	541 14 9½	12,944	3,042 9 9	225,412	9,185 13 5	427,280	21,589 19 8
Dunedin ..	216	128,740	6,136 18 7	4,316	471 7 11½	12,462	562 8 6	7,561	1,342 2 8	165,609	7,630 3 10	318,688	16,143 1 6½
Gisborne ..	62	41,222	1,995 11 0	1,831	180 16 1	5,666	265 10 6	1,766	669 3 8	77,516	3,834 17 10	128,001	6,945 19 1
Greymouth	78	40,684	1,920 18 0½	1,157	115 18 10	3,306	145 2 1	2,105	807 1 5	34,057	1,420 8 10	81,309	4,409 9 2½
Hamilton ..	192	109,234	4,938 17 7½	5,027	429 6 10	4,033	172 4 8	2,738	438 5 4	240,438	9,185 19 5½	361,470	15,164 13 11
Invercargill	174	58,662	2,615 11 3	1,626	152 12 5½	4,965	217 17 6	1,721	841 0 0	141,336	5,264 13 7½	208,310	9,091 14 10
Napier ..	68	69,132	3,197 17 5	2,842	281 0 0	6,478	283 6 9	2,202	929 13 1	183,785	7,136 4 1	264,439	11,828 1 4
Nelson ..	108	30,492	1,453 13 1	1,258	141 14 3	2,208	95 17 10	522	432 16 1	55,359	1,898 14 3½	89,839	4,022 15 6½
New Plymouth	109	59,270	2,917 14 3	2,174	231 2 7	5,262	229 3 2	1,724	1,094 10 2	135,059	4,372 6 0½	203,489	8,844 16 2½
Oamaru ..	50	16,957	744 7 10½	453	43 8 3	1,211	50 14 3	730	510 12 5	26,326	1,301 18 4½	45,677	2,651 1 2
Palmerston North ..	91	68,847	3,103 11 5	3,367	229 18 10½	3,674	155 4 7	4,556	1,056 15 11	189,483	7,429 9 4½	269,927	11,975 0 2
Thames ..	70	45,541	2,020 11 1½	1,831	176 1 11	1,880	82 18 8	937	211 17 5	84,329	3,124 18 9½	134,518	5,616 7 11
Timaru ..	58	36,374	1,607 16 10½	965	108 10 6	3,094	131 17 5½	1,533	716 2 3	83,918	3,772 13 11½	125,884	6,337 1 0½
Wanganui	96	67,049	3,171 19 8	2,684	278 16 4	3,968	170 10 6	2,057	865 9 4	120,266	5,402 16 11	196,024	9,889 12 9
Wellington	94	270,664	18,696 11 2½	14,329	1,679 18 6½	16,659	759 19 5	69,384	1,776 15 4	218,072	9,418 8 3½	589,108	32,331 12 9½
Westport ..	53	18,577	804 18 7½	685	60 18 1	2,062	92 9 7	746	259 6 0	16,403	511 5 2½	38,473	1,728 17 6
Totals, 4th quarter in 1926 ..	2,205	1,552,558	78,546 3 5	71,558	7,187 16 7	112,356	4,969 18 11	135,882	17,645 3 10	2,408,597	96,007 1 10	4,280,951	204,356 4 7
Totals, 4th quarter in 1925 ..	2,229	1,664,697	85,812 12 9	88,151	8,447 14 3	85,134	3,968 9 5½	121,929	15,560 12 7½	2,319,778	92,286 19 11½	4,279,689	206,076 9 0½

Forwarded Press telegrams the bulk of which are “collect” upon delivery. † Amount received from prepaid and “collect” Press telegrams.

General Post Office, Wellington, 25th January, 1927. G. McNAMARA, Secretary.

PDF embedding disabled (Crown copyright)

View this page online at:

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1927, No 4

NZLII — NZ Gazette 1927, No 4

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

✨ LLM interpretation of page content

🚂 Statement of Telegraph Business by Postal Districts

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated25 January 1927
KeywordsTelegraph, Postal Districts, Quarterly Statistics, 31st December 1926
👩‍💼 Officials

G. McNamara, Secretary

As the Gazette has been published for more than 185 years, copyright status depends on the publication date of each issue:

1840–1925 (Public Domain): Issues of the New Zealand Gazette and Provincial Gazettes from this period are in the public domain, as the term of Crown copyright (100 years) has expired. Mechanical reproductions (e.g., scanned PDFs) of these public domain documents do not attract new copyright.
1926–1999 (Crown Copyright): Issues from this period remain subject to Crown copyright. Usage of these issues in this project is "Fair Dealing" for research purposes and consistent with the spirit of the open-access principles championed by NZGOAL, ie, "The default licensing position under ... NZGOAL is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence ... [t]o the greatest extent possible, agencies should apply this licence to copyright material on their websites"
2000–Present (CC-BY 3.0 NZ): Gazette issues published on gazette.govt.nz are Crown copyright but are explicitly licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand licence (CC-BY 3.0 NZ). This project redistributes this content in accordance with those terms.

Nothing in this project is intended to infringe copyright, trademark law or personal privacy. Please contact me immediately if you have any concerns.

Third-Party Content

Where third-party content (e.g., notices submitted by external organisations) is identified within the Gazette, users should satisfy themselves regarding the copyright status of that specific content, as it may be subject to different ownership terms than the Gazette itself.

Sources and Attribution

NZ Gazette Sources

The primary sources for the issues of the NZ Gazette indexed by this project are:

New Zealand Gazette Archive, provided by Victoria University Library, copyright 2008 LexisNexis NZ Limited, Crown Copyright of New Zealand Gazette Office
- Issues from 1841-2008, including the New Munster, New Ulster, and Provincial Gazettes
New Zealand Gazettes by New Zealand Legal Information Institute (note: "NZLII is not the copyright owner in the source documents published on NZLII")
- Issues from 1913-1999
Gazette.govt.nz, Crown copyright / licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs under CC-BY 3.0 NZ
- Issues from 2000-2017

Additional Sources

Wellington City Recollect have made available a comprehensive and excellent-quality scan of the Wellington Provincial Gazette which was used to fill in a number of issues missing from Victoria University's Gazette Archive; in particular, all 1856 issues, issues 22-34 for 1864 and issues 9-19 for 1870.
27 issues of The New Zealand Advertiser and Bay of Islands Gazette (1840) were sourced from Papers Past (public domain).
Gazette Extraordinary No. 1 (1840), held at the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Imaged by Luke Howison at the National Library reading rooms; PDF released into the public domain.

PDF Icon

The PDF PDF Icon was made by Good Ware, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Masthead

The logo in the header is an edited version of “Winning Coat of Arms Competition Entry, 1908” by Archives New Zealand, CC BY 2.0 (found via Wikipedia).

Who made this?

I'm Luke Howison, a freelance web developer with an interest in genealogy. I have created several websites for genealogical research, such as NZ Ancestor Search Helper.