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REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

The Revenue and Expenditure for the year will be found in Table F. The Revenue received from all sources was $414,867.20 as compared with $387,066.19 in 1902. The Expenditure was $334,177.40 as against $316,240.12 during the previous year. The profit made by the Post Office on the year's transactions was $80,689.80.

MONEY ORDERS.

The Money Order business done during the year 1903 was $790,642.10. A detailed statement will be found in Table G. The sales of Imperial and Local Postal Notes are given in Tables H and I.

Imperial Postal Notes sold during the year amounted to £6,667.5s., an increase of £640. 18s. 43d. as compared with the notes sold in 1902. Local Postal Notes to the value of $12,926.25 were sold which is an increase of $2,492.18 on the amount sold during the previous year,

GENERAL.

The Siberian route was first used for the transmission of closed mails from the British Offices in China and Hongkong in November. The Postal Rates are the saine as those charged via Suez.

Conventions relating to the direct exchange of Parcels were arranged with the United States of America and Batavia.

I have, &c.,

S. B. C. ROSS, Acting Postmaster General.

The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Table A.

Actual Numbers of Registered and Insured Letters, &c., Received and Despatched

during the year 1903.

DESCRIPTION

OF

CORRESPONDENCE,

DES-

PATCHED,

RECEIVED. TOTAL

TOTAL

IN 1002.

COMPARISON WITH 1902.

INCREASE. DECREASE.

REGISTERED.

Articles,

194.257 278,003 472,260 475,510

INSURED.

Letters...

259

244

503

281

219

3.250