Appendix R.
REPORT ON THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, FOR THE YEAR 1918.
1.-STAFF.
There were no changes in the senior staff throughout the year, the post of Assistant Postmaster General and the post of Superintendent of the Registration and Parcel Branches remained vacant, and the office was thus deprived of the services of two European officers.
Mr. J. H. Cooper, as I reported in my report for last year, rejoined his regiment, the 4th King's Shropshire Light Infantry, and went to the front. Mr. Cooper, I regret to report, was very severely wounded in the March offensive, his place however is being kept open for him. His regiment, the Shropshire Light Infantry, received the almost unique distinction of the "Croix de Guerre avec la Palme".
During the year, there were a few changes in the subordinate staff, three clerks were transferred to other Government Departments, one was dismissed, and two were invalided from the Service. One Clerk was seconded for duty in the British Censorate at Shanghai.
2.-MAILS.
The number of mail bags and packets despatched from Hongkong during the year amounted to 135,162, as against 123,691 in 1917, an increase of 11,471; the number received was 126,225 as against 116,047, an increase of 10,178.
The number of mail bags and packets sent in transit through the Colony amounted to 81,562 as against 69,540 in 1917, an increase of 12,022.
Boxes and Baskets in transit amounted to 11,307 as against 12,192 in 1917, a decrease of 885.
4,501 steamers carrying mails arrived and 5,697 left in 1918 as against 4,415 and 5,693 respectively in 1917.
Full details appear in Table I.
3.-REGISTRATION AND PARCELS.
Registered and insured articles handled by the General Post Office amounted to 862,626 as against 765,678 in 1917, an increase of 96,948.
Registered articles via Siberia amounted to 1,028 as compared with 32,012 in 1917, a decrease of 30,984.
Appendix R.
REPORT ON THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, FOR THE YEAR 1918.
1.-STAFF.
There were no changes in the senior staff throughout the year, the post of Assistant Postmaster General and the post of Superintendent of the Registration and Parcel Branches remained vacant, and the office was thus deprived of the services of two European officers.
Mr. J. H. Cooper, as I reported in my report for last year, rejoined his regiment, the 4th King's Shropshire Light Infantry, and went to the front. Mr. Cooper, I regret to report, was very severely wounded in the March offensive, his place however is being kept open for him. His regiment, the Shropshire Light Infantry, received the almost unique distinction of the "Croix de Guerre avec la Palme".
During the year, there were a few changes in the subordinate staff, three clerks were transferred to other Government Depart- ments, one was dismissed, and two were invalided from the Service. One Clerk was seconded for duty in the British Censorate at Shanghai.
2.-MAILS.
The number of mail bags and packets despatched from Hong- kong during the year amounted to 135,162, as against 123,691 in 1917, an increase of 11,471; the number received was 126,225 as against 116,047, an increase of 10,178.
The number of mail bags and packets sent in transit through the Colony amounted to 81,562 às against 69,540 in 1917, an increase of 12,022.
Boxes and Baskets in transit amounted to 11,307 as against 12,192 in 1917, a decrease of 885.
4,501 steamers carrying mails arrived and 5,697 left in 1918 as against 4,415 and 5,693 respectively in 1917.
Full details appear in Table I.
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3.-REGISTRATION AND PARCELS.
Registered and insured articles handled by the General Post Office amounted to 862,626 as against 765,678 in 1917, an increase of 96,948.
Registered articles vić Siberia amounted to 1,028 as compared with 32,012 in 1917, a decrease of 30,984.
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