THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 18, 1906.
GENERAL.
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20. The postage on letters to Australia was reduced to 4 cents for each oz.
The Commonwealth reduced the rates of postage on letters and post cards from the Colonies to 27. per each oz. and 1. respectively.
21. A new Steam-launch was built for the Department during the year, and is a great improvement in accommodation and speed on its predecessor.
22. Early in the year there was a re-arrangement of the various branches so as to allow of the available space being used to the best advantage. This gave greater facilities for sorting correspondence for local delivery and box-holders, and gave better accommodation for the Enquiry and Poste Restante Branch, and left more room for the receipt and despatch of mails which are largely increasing in bulk.
23. The further extension of the Registration and Parcel Branch into the vacant hall below the Supreme Court gave a considerable increase of counter space and permitted the extension of the time up to which parcels could be received for despatch by the English Mail as well as considerable acceleration in the deliveries.
Hongkong, 29th March, 1906.
Table I.
MAILS DESPATCHED AND RECEIVED FOR 1905.
L. A. M. JOHNSTON, Postmaster General,
Received, 1905,
To and from Hongkong,
For II.M. For For-
Ships.
eign Ships of War.
Loose
Sent in transit through Hongkong..
Bags. Packets. Letter Bags. Bags. Bagsund |
Boxes.
Steamers carrying Mails.
Arrivals. Depart-
Packets.
ures.
Received, 1904,
71,127 3,053 1,842 52.070 3,004 1,713
Increase,
19,057
49
129
6,741 4,959 4,536 4,135
2,205
12,039 10,292
824
1,747
British Postal Agencies other
than through Hongkong
1,082
257
and Shangbai,
Despatched, 1935,
Despatched, 1904
J
British Postal Agencies other
Increase,
than through Hongkong and Shanghai,
67,888 7,879 1,292 41,566 4,001 1,261
15,772 3,378
6,739 4,201 46,302 3,841 3,113 44,102
13,705
11,107
31 2.898 1,088 2,200
2,598
795
97
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