TABLE I.
Mails received and despatched during the period of 1/4/47 to 31/3/48 and the period of 1/4/48 to 31/3/49.
Steamers & Acroplanes Carrying Mails
10
Mails for and from Hong Kong only
Mails in transit
Surface Mails
Air Mails
Steamers Aeroplanes
Bags
Pkts.
Bags
Pkts.
Bags Pkts.
Received in 1947-48..
79549
560
11504
777
128980
294
2774
2002
Received in 1948-49...
90262
207
16547
1114
150360
1133
2877
3959
Increased
Decreased
10713
5043
337
21430
889
103
1957
353
Despatched in 1947-48
67879
Despatched in 1948-49
74835
10317
14688
3851
1983
4275
3840
Increased
6956
4366
424
1857
Decreased
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