57. Facilities were introduced at the New Territories offices of Tai Po and Yuen Long and also at Aberdeen, Hong Kong Island, for the acceptance of both air and surface parcels.
REGISTRATION AND INSURANCE
58. The Registration service was used to a greater extent than ever before and an increase of 154,647 items was recorded over the 1957/58 figure. The steady annual rise in this traffic is reflected in the following comparative figures for the past six years:
Year
1953/54
1954/55
1955/56
1956/57
1957/58
1958/59
Number of Items
2,174,004
2,241,799
2,392,650
2,941,485
3.229,863
3,384,510
59. The Hong Kong Post Office participates in the international arrangement for the exchange of insured letters and boxes. Insured parcels services are provided to various destinations by special agree- ment. The insurance service is in existence to a fairly extensive number of countries and when additional accommodation becomes available it is hoped to be able to extend the service still further.
FORCES MAIL
60. Mail for Navy, Army and Air Force Units continued to be dealt with by the Fleet Mail Office and the British Forces Post Office in close liaison with this Department. Mail arrangements for visiting foreign warships were made in liaison with the respective national postal administrations.
CHRISTMAS AND CHINESE NEW YEAR POSTINGS
61. Public response to the 'Post Early for Christmas' publicity campaign was most gratifying and a more even flow of postings during the local Christmas pressure period resulted.
62. Sixty temporary mail coolies were engaged for a period of two weeks to help with the heavy collections and transfer of bags during the period.
63. In the fourteen days preceding Christmas Day more than 3,600,000 items passed through the stamp cancelling machines alone
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