COMMUNICATIONS
The year has been one of continued expansion in all phases and the provision of additional accommodation and Branch Post Offices has become a matter of urgent necessity. It is hoped to commence building four new Branch Post Offices next year.
On 1st May, 1953, it became necessary to increase the air postage rate to the United Kingdom and countries in Zone 2 owing to the inclusion of B.O.A.C. conveyance rates into the I.A.T.A. framework, as a result of the Universal Postal Conven- tion of Brussels, 1952.
The heaviest increase felt during the year was in posted traffic, the number of items rising from 37,845,993 in 1952, to 47,289,554 in 1953. Items received showed only a slight increase from 31,590,508 to 31,667,740. These figures exclude items posted locally for local delivery which totalled well over 3,000,000.
Registered items rose from 2,083,469 in 1952, to 2,192,118 in 1953, and there was an increase of over 50% in parcel traffic from 370,935 to 554,337 items.
Local Christmas postings again provided an all time record of 2,100,000 as against the previous year's record total of 1,506,673.
Remittance services increased, with a slight tendency to use Postal Orders in preference to Money Orders. The relative value of Money Orders and Postal Orders issued and paid was $1,978,415 and $1,258,436, a total of $3,236,851 as against the previous year's total of $3,038,122.
Sales of postage and revenue stamps also provided a record, being valued at $20,972,759 as against $16,887,087 in 1952.
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