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APPENDICES
Appendix X-Contd
(Chapter 15: Communications)
Postal Traffic
Number of post offices
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
Letter mails air
Parcel mails surface
Parcel mails air
Tons of mail by air (despatched)
:
:
:
:
:
Bags conveyed by Kowloon-Canton Railway
:
1961
1962
26
29
$77 m
$82 m
$31 m
$40 m
132,594
143,689
82
83
102
104
60
62
42
45
114
115
83
35
77
126
128
47
52
850
893
481,090
539,645
Telegraph and Radio Traffic
1961
1962
Telegrams accepted for transmission
1,020,499
1,061,667
Telegrams delivered
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1,206,414
1,313,311
Telegrams handled in transit
741,549
766,508
Telex calls Outward minutes
:
136,146
170,544
Telex calls-Inward minutes
162,212
204,045
Telex calls
Relayed minutes
21,066
29,641
Overseas Radiotelephone calls-Outward minutes
440,050
465,201
Overseas Radiotelephone calls-Inward minutes
589,481
674,504
Radio Pictures-Transmitted
204
70
Radio Pictures-Received
493
3,178
Harbourphone calls
Press Broadcasts Number of hours
Meteorological Broadcasts-Number of hours Inland Telegrams
56,719
52,459
:
25,864
26,594
:
58,898
71,731
:
4,881
4,905