Table III.
REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE,
Receipts.
1907 1908 Increase Decrease Sale of Stamps, Hongkong,...) $289,189.26 $260,940.23 $28,249.03 Carriage of Mails.- Do., Agencies, at the 114,861.67 110,993.23 3,868.44 Transit Payments, 51,843.82 74,117.12 $22,273.30 Unpaid Postage, 5,375.37 4,582.44 792.93 Gratuities to Shipmasters, } 4,091.38 3,852.05 239.33 Boxholders' Fees, 7,601.20 7,453.00 148.20 Commission on Money Orders, etc., 14,045.11 16,393.36 $2,348.25 Contribution towards P. & O. Subsidy, 116,430.19 94,124.35 22,305.84 Profit on Exchange on Money Order Transactions, 1,962.27 1,562.77 399.50 Interest on Money Order Fund, 12,781.98 10,675.25 2,106.73 Working Expenses, 192,124.81 197,829.88 $5,705.07 Void Money Orders and Postal Notes, 1,458.43 1,001.01 457.42 107.90 393.08 $285.18 Total Receipts, $445,420.90 $412,431.60 $2,633.43 $35,623.75 Total Expenditure, $366,452.47 $371,486.17 $27,978.37 $22,944.67 Profit, $78,968.45 $40,945.43 Total, $445,420.92 $412,431.60 Total, $445,420.92 $412,431.60Due to fall in Exchange, and further statistics of Trans-Siberian mail charges. Fourth quarterly payment for 1908 not made by Crown Agents.
Table IV.
REVENUE FROM THE SALE OF POSTAGE STAMPS, &C., AT THE British POST OFFICES IN CHINA
1907 AND 1908.
1907 1908 Shanghai, $65,063.12 $65,553.24 Amoy, $9,960.49* $5,829.00 Canton, $10,827.37 $10,691.49 Chefoo, $1,609.71 $1,734.22 Foochow, $4,783.67 $4,801.79 Hankow, $3,925.03 $3,777.73 Hoibow, $1,202.33 $1,199.78 Lin Kung Tau, $4,424.51 $5,440.75 Ningpo, $527.33 $470.41 Swatow, $6,374.50 $5,848.52 Tientsin, $6,163.31 $5,646.30 Total $114,861.67 $110,993.23* Of this amount $2,771.42 was in respect of sales during the year 1906.