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The registered articles delivered amounted to 236,666 of which 114,011 were from the United States of America and Canada, and 122,655 from China and other countries showing a decrease of 4,663 as compared with 241,329 in 1929.
8,020 insured letters were dealt with as against 7,755 in 1929. The total number of Chinese private boxes was 292, a decrease of 20 as compared with 312 in 1929.
The licences of 27 Chinese Postal Hongs were renewed, the same number as in 1929.
7.-WIRELESS.
The total paid traffic for the year is 261,963 messages and 2,656,152 words which represents an increase of 67% in the number of messages, and 50% in the number of words as compared to the figures for 1929.
The total number of unpaid messages for the year is 32,955 which is 11% increase over the figures for 1929. The total number of unpaid words is 1,080,408 which is 41% increase as compared with the figures for last year.
The total increase amounts to 118,652 messages and 917,540 words or 58% and 32% respectively.
Full details are shown in Table XI.
NEW SERVICES.
During the year the following new direct services were opened:
Bangkok 10/2/30, Saigon 1/7/30, Malabar 15/7/30, (with connections to Dutch East Indies, Dutch Borneo, Australasia, Europe and America), and Taihoku 18/10/30. The services to Swatow and Amoy were improved and reconditioned. The rates on these 2 circuits were reduced and standardised and the clumsy Receiver to Pay System abolished as from 28/7/30.
Commercial wireless telegraph services offering the usual telegraphic facilities are now in operation as follows:-
(1) Amoy.
(2) British North Borneo.
(3) Canton.
(4) Dutch East Indies, with connections to Dutch Borneo, Australasia, American Continent and Europe.