parcel mails correspondence with no less than forty-one different countries. As a result many mails were re-routed and new despatches formed for Dar-es-salaam, Kampala, Salisbury (Southern Rhodesia), Auckland (New Zealand), Cape Town, Albertville (Belgian Congo), Mahé (Seychelles), Nairobi, Lourenço Marques, Lagos, Perth (Australia), Moji, New Orleans, and Tamatave. New despatches were received from Rijeka (Yugoslavia), Mahé (Seychelles), Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Labuan, and Moji. An impressive all round improvement.
24. The greater volume of surface mails brought its problems in storage space, both for mails and stocks of empty mail bags which had to be greatly increased. This fortunately had been anticipated and an additional 4,000 bags were received in time to meet the increased demand and the Christmas pressure. Further supplies, however, are necessary and these have been ordered. The total of Hong Kong bags in circulation throughout the world at the 31st of March, 1955, exceeded 30,000, whilst the complete stock of bags which had to be main- tained stood at 40,437.
25. Bags despatched overseas were regularly returned to Hong Kong for use again on other despatches.
26. The dock strikes in Great Britain during the year under review did not seriously affect mails for Hong Kong, apart from one or two despatches being received out of sequence.
27. Vietnam. With the implementation of the Geneva Agreement, and the gradual withdrawal of the organized postal service in North Vietnam, it was necessary to suspend the postal service from Hong Kong to that area. Service was later restored for mail to Hanoi which was forwarded via Canton, but up to the time of this report the service to Haiphong and other places in North Vietnam had not been resumed.
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