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in 1920; inward, 17 orders amounting to £451.18s. 3d. against 15 orders amounting to £320.16s. 6d. in 1920.
The sale and payment of British Postal Orders also show a decrease of £2,000 and £3,300 respectively, whilst the Local Postal Notes increased by $14,000.
Full details appear in Table VIII, IX and X.
6. CHINESE CORRESPONDENCE.
Chinese Delivery Section, General Post Office.
During the year this Section handled 2,327,618 ordinary letters, 98,226 other articles, and 8,096 postal hong packets as against 2,151,082 ordinary letters, 98,643 other articles, and 7,449 postal hong packets in 1920.
The registered articles amounted to 342,857 of which 213,415 were from the United States of America and Canada, and 129,442 from China and other countries showing an increase of 35,802 as compared with 307,055 in 1920.
3,717 insured letters were dealt with as against 3,144 in 1920.
The total number of Chinese private letter boxes rented during the year was 326 an increase of 22 as compared with 304 in 1920.
The Hong Licences of 22 Chinese Postal Hongs were renewed, the same number as in 1920.
7. TELEGRAPH SUB-DEPARTMENT.
The revenue collected during the year from radio-telegrams amounted to $19,082.98, an increase of $1,491.25 on the amount collected in 1920. Advices of vessels signalled at the Lighthouses yielded $670.60 and Semaphore messages $3.30 making a total of $19,756.88 from the Telegraph Service. Expenditure amounted to $45,592.19.
The Telegraph Service was worked at a loss of $25,835.31.
Details are given in Tables XI and XII.
The number of radio telegrams forwarded during the year was 2,235 consisting of 30,239 words against 1,965 with 25,221 words in 1920 and 6,182 were received consisting of 82,513 words as against 5,306 with 75,007 words in 1920.
8. MISCELLANEOUS.
In many respects 1921 was a record year. There were increases in all branches of postal business except in Money Orders.
The sales of stamps amounted to $548,379 and is the highest as yet reached. The profit on the Department for the year was $383,079 and it is gratifying to note that though this is the largest profit yet made it has not been caused by any increase in the postal