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The total number of Chinese private boxes for which licences were issued during the year was 338, an increase of 7 as compared with 331 in 1922.
The licences of 22 Chinese Postal Hongs were renewed, the same number as in 1922.
7.-RADIO TELEGRAPH SUB-DEPARTMENT.
The Telegraph Staffs of the Cape D'Aguilar and General Post Office Stations were transferred to the control of the Public Works Department on 1st April. The Post Office continuing the delivery of messages received at the General Post Office Station, and the collection of revenue derived from messages.
The revenue collected during the year from radio-telegrams amounted to $46,113.24, an increase of $14,060.25 on the amount collected in 1922. Advices of vessels signalled at the Lighthouses yielded $662.20 and Semaphore messages $4.50, making a total of $46,779.94 from the Telegraph Service.
Expenditure amounted to $44,599.23.
The balance of Revenue over Expenditure amounted to $2,180.71.
Details are given in Tables XI and XII.
The number of radio-telegrams forwarded during the year was 3,469, consisting of 40,240 words against 2,964 with 40,928 words in 1922, and 8,066 were received consisting of 98,284 words as against 7,865 with 104,858 words in 1922.
The increase in Radio Telegram business has been chiefly due to the establishment of communication with Canton and Swatow. These two Stations—the one managed by Dr. Sun's Administration and the other by a clique of his political opponents—are not registered at Berne under the Wireless Telegraph Convention or recognised by the Central Government of China. Hence no reciprocal working agreement could be made with either. Despite this, communication with each has been effectively carried on, each Station collecting its own charges independently of the others. In the case of Hongkong, the charge authorised by Government was at the flat rate of 30 cents a word, collected, in the case of a message despatched, from the sender; in the case of a message received, from the addressee.
8.-MISCELLANEOUS.
The Post Office record for 1922 was eclipsed by that for 1923, the proceeds of the Sale of Stamps for postal purposes only having increased by a further $82,083—from $572,583 to $654,667.
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The total number of Chinese private boxes for which licences were issued during the year was 338, an increase of 7 as compared with 331 in 1922.
The licences of 22 Chinese Postal Hongs were renewed, the same number as in 1922.
7.-RADIO TELEGRAPH SUR-DEPARTMENT.
The Telegraph Staffs of the Cape D'Aguilar and General Post Office Stations were transferred to the control of the Public Works Department on 1st April. The Post Office continuing the delivery of messages received at the General Post Office Station, and the collection of revenue derived from messages.
The revenue collected during the year from radio-telegrams amounted to $46,113.24 an increase of $14,060.25 on the amount collected in 1922. Advices of vessels signalled at the Lighthouses yielded $662.20 and Semaphore messages $4.50 making a total of $46,779.94 from the Telegraph Service.
Expenditure amounted to $44,599.23.
The balance of Revenue over Expenditure amounted to $2,180.71.
Details are given in Tables XI and XII.
The number of radio-telegrams forwarded during the year was 3,469 consisting of 40,240 words against 2,964 with 40,928 words in 1922, and 8,066 were received consisting of 98,284 words as against 7,865 with 104,858 words in 1922.
The increase in Radio Telegram business has been chiefly due to the establishment of communication with Canton and Swatow. These two Stations-the one managed by Dr. Sun's Administration and the other by a clique of his political opponents-are not registered at Berne under the Wireless Telegraph Convention or recognised by the Central Government of China. Hence no reciprocal working agreement could be made with either. Despite this, communication with each has been effectively carried on, each Station collecting its own charges independently of the others. In the case of Hongkong the charge authorised by Government was at the flat rate of 30 cents a word, collected, in the case of a message despatched, from the sender; in the case of a message received, from the addressee.
S.-MISCELLANEOUS.
The Post Office record for 1922 was eclipsed by that for 1923, the proceeds of the Sale of Stamps for postal purposes only having increased by a further $82,083-from $572,583 to $654,667.
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