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TABLE I.

Mails received and despatched during the period of 1/4/48 to 31/3/49 and the period of 1/4/49 to 31/3/50.

Mails for and from Hong Kong only

Steamers and Aeroplanes carrying Mails

Mails in Transit

Surface

Mails

Air

Mails

Steamers Aeroplanes

Bags

Pkts.

Bags

Pkts.

Bags

Pkts.

Received in 1948-49

90,262

207

16,547

1,114

150,360

1,133

2,877

3,959

Received in 1949-50

105,296

96

15,775

774

64,329

1,679

3,389

3,723

Increased

Decreased

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4,275

3,840

3,912

3,394

546

512

15,034

111

772

340

86,031

236

14,683

13,594

14,149

1,089

Despatched in 1948-49

74,835

Despatched in 1949-50

88,984

Increased

Decreased

363

446

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TABLE II.

Statistics of International and Hong Kong Correspondence for 1948/49 and 1949/50.

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