Kiwis avid letterwriters

Discussing the letterwriting proclivities of the world’s people, Australia with 130 letters per year per head of population was placed first.

Thus a writer in the British Australasian, who asked where New Zealand came in: “New Zealand, I am told, by a correspondent, does not beat Australia at letter writing, its average per head for 1918 being 112 as against Australia’s 130. ”