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STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATed Total Number of LettERS, ETC, PEALT WITH IN 1919.

Post Cards,

Newspapers,

Book Packets, Samples, and Circulars,....

Parcels,....

Telegrams,

External.

Internal.

United Kingdom.

Other Places,

Total,

From

Το

From

То

No statistics,

STATEMENT OF THE AMOUNT OF Money Order AND POSTAL ORDER TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN HONGKONG AND THE UNITED Kingdom, the Colonies, anND FOREIGN COUNTRIES, IN 1919.

Money Orders,

British Postal Ordera,

Local Postal Notes,

Issued in the Colony.

Paid in the Colony.

£ 100,537

7,801 12

S.

d.

£

3

170,825

2

6

9,067

19

290

Mox. $34,901.00

STATISTICS OF INTERNATIONAL AND HONgkong Registered CorreSPONDENCE AND Insured LETTERS FOR THE YEar 1919.

· International and Locul.]

Comparison with

· 1918.

Description of Correspondence.

Totul

Total

1919,

1918.

Despatched. Received.

lucrense. Decrease

Insured Letters,

3,445

5,303

8,748

Registered Articles,

356,983

589,804

946,787

Registered Articles, (viù Siberia),

6,143 855,455 1,028

2,605 91,332

1,028

Total,..

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360,428

595,107

955,535

862,626

93,987 1,028

Total Increase of 92,909 Articles.

STATISTICS Of the Parcel Post for the Year 1919.

International and Local.

Comparison with 1918.

Description of Parcels.

Totul

Totul

1919.

1918.

Desnatched. Received.

Increase. Decrosse,

Insured Parcels, (viá Gibraltar),

1,383

2,768

4,153

1,988

2,165

INLE

Ordinary Parcels, (viâ Gibraltar),

11,544

9,438

20,982

15,948

2,034

Ordinary Parcels, (via Canada),

3,202

3,202

Cash on Delivery Parcels,........

59

America, Manila, and Honolulu Parcels,

3,379

17,715

59 21,094

101

14,591

6,300

French Parcels by French Ships,..

778

773

1,200

427.

Indian Insured Parcels,

972

1,149

2,421

1,617

774

Indinu Ordinary Parcels,

1,717

3,094

4,811

5,107

696

Australian Parcels,

1,359

1,857

8,216

4,957

LIF

Japanese l'arcels,

3,246

14,685

17,881

21,483

1,741 3,609

Chinese Purcels...............

18,342

32,081

Indo-China Purcels,

Straits Settlements Parcels, Dutch East Indies Parcols, Miscellaneous Parcels,..............

9,462

9,598

6,780

5,187

143,753 131,133

12,600

3,280

262

12,101 47,408

8

Totul,......

73,567 145,876 219,143

201,680

27,073 9,610

Total Increase of 17,483 Purcels,