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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT
Details of traffic for the year are:
Passenger Aircraft
Passengers
Freight
In
Out
3,734
3,735
94,176
85,878
2,224,702 kilos. 736,368 kilos.
475,968
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305,702
POST OFFICE
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Postal Services. The steady increase in traffic which has been apparent since the war continued unabated. Unfortu- nately, however, plans to provide additional premises to ease the serious congestion in the main offices did not materialize and it was only through the temporary loan by the Railway Administration of a godown for transit mails that the Post Office was able to carry on without chaos.
Some relief to counter and delivery services was provided by a new branch office in the new Government District Offices in Shamshuipo, and three further offices on Hong Kong Island are in process of construction. The main problem is, however, additional space at Head Office to accommodate the heavy overseas and transit mails.
External services remained at a high peak, averaging 12 sea and 18 air mails daily. The daily air despatches to Europe and America continued, other principal administrations re- ceiving four or more services weekly.
Letter mails are despatched to 74 destinations by air and 77 by sea, and direct parcel mails to 28 destinations by air and 75 by sea. Letter mails are received direct from 76 places by air and 69 by sea, direct parcel mails from 22 countries by air and 42 by sea.
Registration and Parcel services were also maintained at a high level at 2,941,485 and 844,810 respectively.
Christmas postings produced an all-time record, over 3,500,000 items being dealt with in the ten-day peak period, and no less than 611,000 being recorded on one day. For the
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