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5.-MONEY ORDERS.
The combined total of the year's transactions on Money Orders and British Postal Orders shows a slight increase over that of the previous year, and the gradual recovery in business is beginning to point to a permanency.
Money Orders issued 1928 £51,295.12.1 ? paid 68,983.15.3 British Postal Orders issued...... 3,989.14.8 paid 2,360.15.7 £126,539.17.7
1927. Money Orders issued .........£49,291.6.9 "" paid 70,208.0.10 British Postal Orders issued 4,072.15.0 " paid 2,518.0.3 £126,090.2.10
Local Postal Notes are mostly used for Macao remittances and show a falling off of $1,100.00.
The Telegraphic Money Orders with Great Britain fluctuates every other year. This year there was a decrease:-
Outward. £2,598.15.0 84 Orders......£996.6.7 Inward. 1925 169 Orders.. 1926 142 1927 221 1928 158 £2,006.15.0 71 ......£871.4.0 "" 19 "" .£3,138.10.0 72 " ......£1,058.19.6 " £1,812.10.0 87 ....£924.2.2 11
Full details appear in Tables VIII, IX and X.
6. CHINESE DELIVERY SECTION.
During the year, this section handled 2,959,793 ordinary letters, 199,673 other articles and 8,347 postal Hong packets as against 3,215,436 ordinary letters, 231,142 other articles and 9,233 postal Hong packets in 1927.