29. Hitherto it has not been the practice for this Depart- ment to follow the usual Postal procedure of engaging additional relief staff at Christmas but the rapidly increasing bulk alone nowadays will necessitate this practice being adopted in future.
DELIVERY ARRANGEMENTS
30. The continued development of new areas and rebuilding of existing areas has necessitated constant review of all delivery sections. The situation is becoming increasingly difficult owing to the outward spread of development further and further from delivery centres, and the provision of adequate Branch Offices in the urban areas to permit decentralization of delivery arrangements is anxiously awaited.
31. Following the distrous Christmas fire in Shek Kip Mei and adjacent squatter villagers, a temporary Post Office for delivery of mail on a 'Poste Restante' basis was set up in the Boundary Street camp, and in the period 4th January to 8th May, 1954, it was found possible to deliver over 4,500 items to the fire victims.
REMITTANCE SERVICES
32. The trade depression was mostly apparent in this field where despite an increase of 14% in the number of transactions, the overall value decreased by $173,333 or approximately 6%.
33. Money Orders dealt with were 9,695 for a total value of $1,609,822 whilst Postal Orders were 74,867 for a total value of $1,338,373.
34. Revenue from Remittance Services amounted to $27,433.
RADIO LICENSING AND INSPECTION
35. General. The tendency of the Public to transfer their affections from the ordinary broadcast receiving service to the longer programmes offered by Rediffusion was again evident in the reduction of 856 in the number of domestic broadcast receiving licences as against an increase of 1,162 registered
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