Telegraph

The overseas trend for telegraph traffic is for much of it to be taken over by the telephone and leased teleprinter services. No doubt this has happened in New Zealand too, but population growth has disguised it and kept the figures for telegraph traffic stable. New Zealanders send an average of three telegrams per head per year, a total of 7.3 million telegrams last year, and are consequently the world's greatest telegram senders. The service yielded the Post Office £990,532 last year.

Last year New Zealand joined in the international telex service network, and subscribers can communicate via teleprinter direct with subscribers in twenty-six other countries. A real need is felt by businessmen and large concerns for an internal telex network, and it is hoped that this scheme will be able to be implemented shortly. At the moment, firms may lease direct point-to-point teleprinter circuits, and 269 do.