540006-1905-Report-on-the-Post-Office-for-1904 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MAY, 1905.

687

Table A.

Mails despatched and received.

For H. M.

To and from Hongkong.

Ships.

For For- eign Ships of War.

Sent in transit through Hongkong.

Steamers carrying Mails.

Loose

Bags. Packets. Letter

Bags.

Bags.

Bags and

Packets.

Arrivals. Departures.

Boxes.

Received, 1904,

52,070

3,004

1,713

4,536

4,135

10,292

Received, 1903,

43,367

2,716 1.652

3,555

3,955

8,174

Increase,

8.703

288

61

981

180

2,118

Despatched, 1904,

£1.566

4,001

1,261

3,841

3,113

44,102

11,107

Despatched, 1903,

31,940

2,617

1273

1,039

2,880

42,808

8,510

Increase,

9,626 1,384

2,802

233

1,294

:

2,597

Table B.

International and Local.

International and Local Registered Correspondence and Parcels.

Comparison with 1903.

Description of Correspondence,

Total.

1

Despatched. Received.

Total in 1903.

Increase. Decrease.

Insured Letters,

Registered Articles,

Insured Parcels---riá Gibraltar,

Insured Parcels-via Brindisi,

311 237,064 3,026 272

Ordinary Parcels---riá Gibraltar,

13,096

244 -297,391 1,505 87 10,223

4,531 359

555 503 534,455 | 172,260 4,030 486

52

62,195

501

127

23,319

20,609

2,710

Ordinary Parcels --via Brindisi,

119

276

695

712

17

United Kingdom, Ordinary—rid Marseilles,

670

670

-697

27

United Kingdom, Insured—rić Marseilles,

144

144

243

99

German Parcels,

270

1,414

1,684

1,457

227

French Parcels,

American Parcels-San Francisco new Convention, Miscellaneous Parcels.................

481

636

16,437

1,064 14,028

481 1,700 30,465 28.925 1,540

638

157

1,700

599,058 530,560

68,925

427

Table C.

Revenue and Expenditure.

Receipts.

1903.

1904.

Increase.

Decrease.

Expenditure.

1903.

1904. Incrense.

Decrease.

$

Do..

Sale of Stamps. Hong-į | 293,062 59 263,880.46

kong,

at the Agencies. 80.813.14 103,626,14 22.811,00

29.1-2.13

Transit Payment to the

United Kingdom,

63.955.59

56,649.82

Unpaid Postage,

8.432.03 6.633.07

1.798.96

Transit l'ayment to { Other Countries,......

41.500.42

35.262.69

7.805.77

6.237.73

Boxholders' Fees,.

5.272.67 5,880.38

607.71/

Commission on Money i

Orders.

14.729.90 14,246.27

483.63

1

Profit

on Exchange

On Money Order 11,539.69 13.544.96 2,005.27 Transactions,

Gratuities to Ship- masters for the Con- veyance of Mails,

Contribution towards

P. & . Subsidy.

Commission on Money!

Orders,

8.279.28

4,112 53

4,166.75

70,448.05 65,474.59

4,978.46

2,090,87 1,945.05

145.82

Interest OTI Money

Order Fund,

419.06

B38.37

Void Money Orders:

and Postal Notes, ...

596.12

309.27

Totals.

.$414,867.20 408,458.92 25,423.98 | 31,832,26

80.69

Working Expenses,

147.903.19 153,311.88 5.408.69

Balance,

80.689.80

91,702.36 11,012.56

286.85

Totals,

414,867.20 408,458.92 16,421,25 | 22,829.53