The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-10-14
HONOLULU POSTAL
RECEIPTS LOWER
They Fell Off From $62,0l0.lS
In 1901 to $50,S67.00
This Year.
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Especial TO the AdvertiserD
WASHINGTON, d. G., Sept ga
Presidential postofiices in Hawaii, Of
which there are FIVE. had a slight fall
| ing off the last fiscal year in the amount
of receipts The accounts have just
been made up at the Postoffice Depart
ment. for publication, of the transac-
tions in all the Presidential Offices Of
| the country. This does not include the
| So-callc1 fourth class postoniCes, the
! postmasters for which are named by
! the fourth assistant postmaster gem
cral. but those offices where the ap-
pointments are made by the President.
The total gross receipts of the post
offices at Hilo, Honolulu, Lahaina, Lii
hue and Wailuku were S15,2SS.72 for the
fiscal year that closed June 80 last.
out Of this money there was paid s., 600
for salaries Of the postmasters, s., 600
for the postmaster at Hilo, $1,000 for the
salary of the postmaster at Honolulu,
81 200 for the salary of the postmaster
at Lahaina and Sl,1OO and $1,000 respec-
lively for the salaries of the postmas-
ters at Lihue and Wailuku. out of
these gross receipts for last year there
was also paid total of s36, ,99327 for
clerk hire in the same five postofiices;
81 400 .04 for rent, light and fuel $Sl9l5
for incidental expenses, and $6, 4OS. 10 for
free delivery, which was expended in
Honolulu. This made the total expenses
of the Presidential offices in Hawaii
s54, ,32O.6l and the net revenue 500 96S II.
The previous fiscal year there were
six Presidential Offices, some of which
were established that fiscal year, so no
reliable comparison can be instituted.
Kohala was a Presidential office for the
fiscal year 1901 but ceased to have that
rank last year. Lihue and Wailuku
were established as Presidential Offices
in October, 1901, and for that fiscal
year the records were not complete.
However the totals of that previous
year, as returned to the Postoffice De-
partment, We're gross receipts of S75,-
966S5. out of which was paid $500 for
salaries, 29,00S6i for clerk hire: s5l5
for rent, light and fuel, S5,T71.07 for in
cidental expenses, $500 for free delivery
in Honolulu. This made a total expense
for these six Presidential offices of
S44l9i.1 and a net revenue of s31, ,772,
considerably more than for the last fs-
cal year, when II was, as already stated,
$50, ,96S.11 The per cent of expense to
gross receipts last year was seventy
two per cent: while the previous year
1t was only flfty-eight per cent.
The gross receipts of the postofice at
Honolulu fell off last year. when they
were s59S6I.99 as compared with $62,-
9l9.lS for the previous year. The clerk
hire in the Honolulu Office last year
amounted to 1913 660.SO as compared with
$25,97S.64. Rent, light and fuel in the
Honolulu postoftice last year cost the
government $l,ll90i. where it was
$'97l0 for the previous year. Other in
sidental expenses last year We're s722.74,
where the previous year it was s4,S2529.
The net revenue of the Honolulu Office
last year was $li,657.26 and the total
expenses si5,21O.7S. The expenses were
seventy-SiX per cent of the gross re-
scipts. The previous fiscal year the ex-
penses of the Honolulu Office We're fif-
EsiX per cent of the gross receipts
The lilo postofiice showed an in
crease for the past fiscal year, for the
gross receipts We're $S.559.4l, as COM
pared with $6,9635S for the previous fs-
cal year. The cost of clerk hire was
S2,S52.i7, an increase of $l5247 Rent,
light and fuel cost SS1. but the inciden-
tai expenses amounted to $lS5.2l. The
total expenses last year were So, ,06S. 6S
and the net revenue 349O.75. The net
revenue of the Hilo office FOR the pre-
ceding year was sl,l3L3S. The expenses
last year were fifty-nine per cent of
the gross receipts and the previous fis-
cal year they We're eighty-four per cent.
At Lahaina the gross receipts last
year We're 2,S04.S3. There was no
charge on the government for rent.
Clerk hire cost $3.50. incidentals, forty