Lettere,
( Zf 2-)
STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED TOTAL NUMBER OF LETTERS, ETC., DEALT with in 1917.
Post Cards,
External.
Internal,
United Kingdom.
Other Places,
Total
From
To
From
To
Newspapers,...............-
Book Packets, Samples, and Circulars, -
Parcels,
Telegrams,
No statistics.
STATEMENT OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ORDER ANd Postal ORDER TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN HONGKONG AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES, AND FortiGs Countries, in 1917.
Issued in the Colony.
Paid in the Colony,
Money Orders,
British Postal Orders,
Local Postal Notes,
£ 92,368 16 9,817 11
S.
d.
1 0
£ 150,263
d.
.
19
10
12,441
18
11
Mex. $39,715.00
Statistics of INTERNATIONAL AND HONGKONG REGISTERED CORRESPONDENCE AND INSURED LETTERS FOR THE YEAR 1917.
Interuntional and Local!
Comparison with
1916.
Total
Description of Correspondence.
Total
1917.
1916.
Despatched.
Recci red.
Incrense. Decrease.
Insured Letters,
Registered Articles,
Registered Articles, (viâ Siberia),
2,136 262,264 15,470
3,806 465,460 16,542
5,942
4,156
1,786
727,724
676,192
51,532
32.012
55,419
23,407
Total, 279,870
אווא,48.5
765,678 735,767
53,318
23,407
Total increase of 29,911 Articles.
STATISTICS OF INTERNATIONAL AND HONGKONG REGISTERED PARCELS FOR THE Year 1917.
International and Local.
Total
Description of Parcele.
Total
Comparison with 1916.
1917
1916.
Despatched. Received.
Increase. Decrosse.
•
401
1,940
2,341
4,099
410
1.758
Insured Parcels, (viâ Gibraltar), Insured Parcels, (viû Brindisi),....... Insured Parcels, (viâ Marseilles).... Ordinary Parcels, (via Gibraltar), Ordinary Parcels, (viâ Brindisi), Ordinary Parcels, (vià Marseilles),
***
4.377
4
9,973
14,350
20,208
5,948
***
Q
Cash on Delivery Pareels.................
督
America, Manila, and Honolulu Parcels,
3,698
K
91 8,972
**
91 12,665
187 10,010
***
***
96
2,653
Эти
German Parcels by German Ships,
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4
可吸收
French Parcels by French Ships,........
1,105
1,105
900
205
Indian Insured Parcols,
790
774
Australian Parcels,
2,818
977
Japanese Parcels,
Indian Ordinary Parcels,
Miscellaneous Parcols,
2,116
2,088
2,828
15,584
104,243
84,092
20,151
42,090
3-1,233
54
Parcels, (við Siberia), ................................................. Parcels, (viá Canada),
...
368
369
368
Total,..... 89.476
75,687
185,163
119,586
23,379
7.802
Total increase of 15,577 Parcels.