APPENDICES
Appendix X-Contd
(Chapter 17: Communications)
Postal Traffic
465
1962
1963
Number of post offices
29
35
Total revenue
$82 m
$75 m
Value of remittance business (money orders and
postal orders issued and paid)
$40 m
$47 m
Wireless licences issued
Direct despatches received:
Letter mails surface
Letter mails air
143,689
144,922
83
86
104
106
Parcel mails surface
62
65
***
•
***
+
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
Telegraph and Radio Traffic
45
50
115
--118
...
申
...
77
81
+
128
133
52
50
893
1,107
539,645
511,382
1962
1963
Telegrams accepted for transmission
1,061,667
1,084,173
Telegrams delivered
1,313,311
1,300,926
Telegrams handled in transit ...
766,508
766,473
Telex calls-Outward minutes
170,544
258,926
Telex calls-Inward minutes
204,045
300,527
Telex calls-Relayed minutes...
29,641
56,302
Overseas Radiotelephone calls-Outward minutes...
465,201
481,930
Overseas Radiotelephone calls-Inward minutes
674,504
681,871
Radio Pictures-Transmitted...
Radio Pictures-Received
Harbourphone calls
Press Broadcasts-Number of hours
70
210
3,178
6,183
·
52,459
355,603
26,594
26,761
...
Meteorological Broadcasts-Number of hours
Inland Telegrams
71,731
76,244
...
4,905
5,081