The temperature at the high levels of the Peak District is from 30 to 8° less than at the Observatory. At Victoria it is practically the same. The rainfall and humidity are considerably greater at the Peak than at Victoria, the Observatory, or Tai Po (New Territories).
The total rainfall for the year was 76.025 inches, as compared with an average of 82.35 inches during the ten preceding years. The wettest month was July with 15.41 inches, the driest, January, when 0.345 inch fell. The greatest amount of rain which fell on any one day was 4.89 inches on the 19th October while no rain fell on 219 days of the year. The mean relative humidity of the atmosphere for the year was 77%, or 1% less than for the ten preceding years. The average daily amount of sunshine was 5.5 hours, being 45% of the possible duration.
X.-POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES.
The total revenue from the Postal Service in 1915 amounted to $368,457.77, being $31,542.23 less than that anticipated, which is mainly due to the reduced sale of postage stamps in consequence of the war.
The expenditure amounted to $403,609.02. The result of the year's postal transactions shows a debit balance of $35,151.25.
Two branch post offices were opened during the year; one in the Wantsai district on 1st March and one at Yaumati on the mainland on 1st July.
The Telegraph branch of the Harbour Department was transferred to the Post Office on 29th June. The Radio-telegraph Station at Cape D'Aguilar was opened to public traffic on 15th July. The number of radio-telegrams forwarded was 157 and received 310 and the revenue collected for the period amounted to $2,184.30. Advices of ships signalled at the lighthouses for the year yielded $438.00 and semaphore messages $1.00 making a total of $2,623.30 for the telegraphic service. The expenditure amounted to $4,112.07 for the General Post Office Station,
Radio-telegrams have been exchanged between this Colony and French Indo-China through the intermediary of the Cape D'Aguilar and the French Government radio station at Quang Tcheou Wan.
XI. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
Throughout the year the Province of Kwangtung was generally speaking peaceful, the influence of His Excellency Lung Chai Kwong as Chiang Chun or Military Governor having a salutary effect. Depredations by pirates and armed robbers on the West River and other waterways in the delta, however, occasionally caused trouble, the chief local sufferers being the Conservancy Contractors for
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The temperature at the high levels of the Peak District is from 30 to 8° less than at the Observatory. At Victoria it is practically the same. The rainfall and humidity are considerably greater at the Peak than at Victoria, the Observatory, or Tai Po (New Territories).
The total rainfall for the year was 76.025 inches, as compared with an average of 82-35 inches during the ten preceding years. The wettest month was July with 15-41 inches, the driest, January, when 0.345 inch fell. The greatest amount of rain which fell on any one day was 4.89 inches on the 19th October while no rain fell on 219 days of the year. The mean relative humidity of the atmosphere for the year was 77%, or 1% less than for the ten preceding years. The average daily amount of sunshine was 5.5 hours, being 45% of the possible duration.
X.-POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SERVICES.
The total revenue from the Postal Service in 1915 amounted to $368,457.77, being $31,542.23 less than that anticipated, which is mainly due to the reduced sale of postage stamps in consequence of the war.
The expenditure amounted to $403,609.02. The result of the year's postal transactions shows a debit balance of $35,151.25.
Two branch post offices were opened during the year; one in the Wantsai district on 1st March and one at Yaumati on the mainland on 1st July.
The Telegraph branch of the Harbour Department was trans- ferred to the Post Office on 29th June. The Radio-telegraph Station at Cape D'Aguilar was opened to public traffic on 15th July. The number of radio-telegrams forwarded was 157 and received 310 and the revenue collected for the period amounted to $2,184.30. Advices of ships signalled at the lignthouses for the year yielded $438.00 and semaphore messages $1.00 making a total of $2,623.30 for the telegraphic service. The expenditure amounted to $4.112.07 for the General Post Office Station,
Radio-telegrams have been exchanged between this Colony and French Indo-China through the intermediary of the Cape D'Aguilar and the French Government radio station at Quang Tcheou Wan.
XI. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
Throughout the year the Province of Kwangtung was generally speaking peaceful, the influence of His Excellency Lung Chai Kwong as Chiang Chun or Military Governor having a salutary effect. Depredations by pirates and armed robbers on the West River and other waterways in the delta, however, occasionally caused trouble, the chief local sufferers being the Conservancy Contractors for
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