Relay services via Hong Kong were opened between Okinawa/Bangkok and Okinawa/Seoul. The existing telephone schedules to some places were extended in length.
94. The Company's 'harborfone' service continued to be extensively used. Any ship within the harbour can be fitted with a V.H.F. radio- telephone installation on hire, giving direct connexion between ship and ship or between ship and any subscriber on the Hong Kong telephone exchange.
95. The teleprinter service for acceptance and delivery of local telegrams continued to be maintained, and the planning of an inter- national "Telex' service was put in hand.
96. Traffic figures for the year ending 31st March, 1958, were:
Telegrams accepted for transmission
Telegrams delivered
Overseas radiotelephone calls (Outward)
Overseas radiotelephone calls (Inward)
Radio pictures transmitted
Radio pictures received
Press broadcasts-words handled
Meteorological broadcasts-words handled
Inland telegrams
975,400 1,055,400
433,352 mins.
545,698 mins,
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42,000,000
564,000 3.265
ACCOMMODATION
97. With the usual annual increase in both postal activities and the number of staff, the problem of acquiring adequate space becomes more and more acute.
98. Consequent upon the removal from the G.P.O. building of the Rating and Valuation Department, additional accommodation was provided for the extremely congested Sorting Office by the removal of the Air Mail Section to the first floor of the building, other offices on the first floor being accommodated elsewhere. This was a move which was not desirable but which had to be undertaken. A new lift is being installed to deal with transfer of correspondence and bags to and from the new sections on the upper floors.
99. The erection of additional Post Offices at Mong Kok, Kowloon City, Causeway Bay and Sheung Shui are in hand, but it will be some time before they are ready for occupation.
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