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Licences $214.75, Broadcast Receiving Licences $15,664.50, Dealers Licences $2,480.00 and Examination Fee for Operators' Certificates of Proficiency $72.00.
6. The number of paid radio-telegrams forwarded during the year was 214,274 consisting of 1,694,362 words against 132,432 consisting of 1,125,559 words in 1930, and 184,183 were received, consisting of 1,690,206 words against 124,855 consisting of 1,161,115 words.
7. In addition to the paid traffic figures given above the Wireless Service is responsible for the reception of time signals daily from Bordeaux, Rugby, Malabar and Nauen, for the transmission of time signals to ships in the China Sea, the reception of press messages amounting to 499 messages or 273,832 words from Rugby, the collection and distribution of meteorological traffic, having forwarded 6,102 messages 239,574 words, and received 13,766 messages 257,351 words, the reception and dissemination of distress, piracy and navigation messages, the transmission and reception of Government messages, etc.
8. At the end of August 1931, a telephone service between Hong Kong and Canton, a distance of 110 miles was formally opened.
9. Mails.-The number of mail receptacles of Hong Kong origin despatched during the year was 48,748 as compared with 48,123 in 1930-an increase of 625; the number received was 52,568 as compared with 50,424-an increase of 2,144.
10. Receptacles in transit, including those to and from British and Foreign Men-of-War, numbered 210,217 as against 182,030 in 1930-an increase of 28,187.
11. Registered Articles and Parcels-The number of registered articles handled amounted to 806,733 as compared with 842,678 in 1930-a decrease of 35,945.
12. The figures for insured letters were 19,522 and 18,887 respectively—an increase of 635.
13. Parcels, ordinary and insured, which were dealt with reached total of 382,170 as against 428,849 in 1930-a decrease of 46,679.
14. The Kowloon-Canton Railway maintains a daily service of two express trains each way between Kowloon and Canton. The journey occupies 3 hours. The three new express locomotives obtained in 1930 on behalf of the Chinese Section were put into regular service on May 3rd, 1931, and hauled the express trains between Kowloon and Canton for the remainder of the year. These engines are still in the possession of the British Section, haulage charges being paid by the Chinese Section.