Jable D.
Received
Parcels received and dispatched during the Year
· 1895 and 1896.
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HONGKONG.
REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL FOR 1897.
No. 21
98
352
aid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency
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the Officer Administering the Government.
GENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, 20th May, 1898.
- have the honour to forward the following report on the British Postal Service in Hong- China during the year 1897.
Anited
Germany
Kingdal 200
|12400 | 1.100| 511 407
вер
Julia
1248 876
372 India
4
222 665 443 A. 1218 985 96 Other Countries 260 294
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Court Porto 3406 4230 824
4
Other Countries 626 530
Grand Total
17.09118.443 1.924 572
Coast Ports 5395 7389
Approximate statistics of correspondence received and despatched during the year are given These figures are arrived at from statistics taken in October. Compared with 1896 the amount renational correspondence shows an increase of 100,740 ordinary letters, and post cards despatched 106,310 received; 15,360 newspapers and other articles despatched and 278,720 received; 38,910
90 ordinary letters and post cards, and 9,930 registered articles; but a decrease of 1,740 While that received shows a decrease of 45,060 letters and post cards 1070 newspapers, &c., but an increase of 1,980 registered articles.
articles despatclied and 650 reveived. Local correspondence despatched shows an increase
34 1994rs and other articles.
Grand Total 16.720 20371 3887
Table B. gives the monthly sale of stamps at Hongkong as compared with 1896, showing an el sale of $19,476.04, the average monthly sale being a little over $15,000 as against a nader $13,500 in 1896.
4. Table C. gives the statistics of parcels received and despatched, and Table D. the comparison 1896. The outward Christmas and New Year mails comprised, respectively, 504 and 945
and the inward mails 702 and 987.
3. Table E. giving the revenue and expenditure for the year, compared with 1896, shows a screase in the revenue of $23,336,16 and in the expenditure of $18,799.12; the balance of e over expenditure being $61,536.20--an increase of $4,537.04 above that shown in 1896.
Table F. shows the number of parcels despatched to Europe by the P. & O. steamers and the at of postage and insurance fees collected.
1. Table G. shows the Money Order business done during the year.
3. Messrs. ABBAS and J. C. REMEDIOs were appointed to the Registration Branch in February. Moon was transferred to the Registrar General's Office as a student interpreter in October, and CODRIGUES to the Treasury in November. Messrs. Luz and SIMÕES were appointed to the vacancies. In February last the Imperial Chinese l'ost Office was established, and a conference was held ar between representatives of that administration and of the Straits Settlements and myself. Agreements for facilitating the transmission of correspondence, &c. were discussed and subsequently effect. to.
10. I inspected the British Postal Agencies in China finishing with Hoihow in January last and everything satisfactory, although later last year an inspection by an officer in the Local Audit that one brauch was not so carefully administered as it might have been,
il. A contract was made with the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company in May carriage of mails between the three ports, and as a result I was enabled to deal with the ion of Chinese correspondence which had formerly been smuggled out of and into the Colony.
estimate the increase of revenue on that account at about $5,000.
12. The question of accommodation is more pressing than ever, since there has been a very large ase of postal business in the last two or three years,
The following comparative table of revenue during five years will show this increase almost
1893,
1894,
1895.
1896,
1897.
.$167,600
192,170
214,450
245,280
268,600
The experience of the first four months of the current year shows that the revenue will exceed
12000.
dhe as instance of improvement arising from proper provision in the above respect I may state Be Registration Branch is now performing its work with as perfect accuracy as can be attained, no e as in the past having arisen for a good few months on account of loss of letters or other articles. therefore hope that Government will press on the construction of a new office without delay.
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