The details are shown in Table X.
During the year 2,335 advices of ships signalled at the light-houses were distributed. For these advices a charge of 20 cents each is made. Short messages can also be sent by semaphore from the lighthouse to ships not fitted with wireless apparatus.
Table XI contains a statement of the Revenue and Expenditure of the Telegraph Branch of the General Post Office for the year exclusive of the working cost of D'Aguilar Station. Revenue amounted to $2,623.30 of which $2,184.30 was in respect of radio telegrams. The expenditure amounted to $4,112.07.
The number of messages sent and received has fallen far short of what the public appears to have anticipated (in view of the continued appeals made to the Colonial Government during the past three or four years to establish this station); but it must be borne in mind that there were fewer ships available and that the sending of radio telegraph messages from ships stations during the period of the war has been very greatly restricted.
E. D. C. WOLFE,
Postmaster General.
9th May, 1916.