APPENDICES
Appendix X — Contd
(Chapter 15: Communications)
Kowloon-Canton Railway, British Section*
Length of line
Main points of call
Passengers carried
Passenger kilometres Freight carried
Total revenue
1
Main line 22 miles
Total length of line-35 miles New Territories (Hong Kong)
6,834,481 (6,843,679)
138,934,877 (151,507,001)
439
329,489.54 metric tons (355,860.79)
Operating expenditure
Net operating revenue
$9,424,427
$4,352,720
$5,071,707
$5,515,955
($9,848,285)
($4,312,634)
($5,535,651)
($350,051)
Capital expenditure
* Revised figures for 1960 are shown in brackets.
Vehicles
(Total of vehicles registered on 31st December 1960 Total of vehicles registered on 31st December 1961 Private cars (including 41 on Lantau Island) Motor cycles (including motor scooters) Taxis (including 350 in NT) ..
Buses
Goods vehicles
+
· •
+
+
Crown vehicles
Rickshaws
Tricycles ..
48,890)
55,826
·
35,778
4,095
1,362
1,010
•
•
►
9,636
+
1,549
863
807
108.3
Density of vehicles per mile of roadway
Passenger aircraft
Passengers
Air Traffic
In 7,095
233,031
Out 7,100
245,267 (including 'stop-over'
transit passengers)
Freight Mail
1,860,793 kilos 633,388 kilos
3,629,786 kilos
+ •
865,689 kilos
Postal Traffic
Number of Post Offices
1960
1961
24
26
Total revenue
Value of remittance business (money orders and postal
orders issued and paid).
Wireless licences issued
Direct despatches received:
Letter mails surface
Letter mails air
Parcel mails surface Parcel mails air
Direct despatches made:
Letter mails surface
·
•
$57 m
$77 m
$20 m
$31 m
-
120,383
132,594
·
76
82
98
102
54
60
38
42
·
·
105
114
Letter mails air
Parcel mails surface
82
83
123
126
·
+
•
•
:
Parcel mails air
Tons of mail by air (despatched)
Bags conveyed by Kowloon-Canton Railway
43
47
·
• *
725
850
·
· +
• •
342,320
481,090