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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT
£3,000,000 from the United Kingdom Government, is estimated to cost at least $110,000,000 (£6,500,000). The work is supervised by a firm of Consulting Engineers.
It is hoped to complete the installation of the airport and approach lighting system, based largely on International Civil Aviation standards, to coincide with the opening of the new runway in August 1958, and to provide modern air radio navigation aids, including Long Range Surveil- lance Radar, Precision Approach Radar, Approach Surveil- lance Radar, Instrument Landing System, and Very High Frequency Omni-Directional_Range and Distance Measur- ing Equipment, by the end of 1959.
All air services to Hong Kong Airport are of an inter- national character, and 17 airlines, including two local airlines, operate air services connecting Hong Kong with principal world air routes, at a frequency of 162 flights to and from Hong Kong each week. A notable feature of the year's operations has been the introduction, on regional and international routes respectively, of turbo-prop Viscount and Britannia aircraft.
Details of traffic for the year are:
In
Out
Passenger Aircraft
4,234
4,236
Passengers
| 111,364
117,203
Freight
934,696 kilos.
2,610,798 kilos.
330,023 kilos.
338,676 kilos.
POST OFFICE
Postal Services: Traffic continues to increase at a steady rate and the question of finding more accommodation in the main despatching and receiving centres of the General Post Office, Hong Kong, and the Central Post Office, Kowloon, becomes correspondingly more acute.
Some alleviation of the local congestion was achieved in the latter part of the year by the opening of two new offices on the Island, at Shau Kei Wan and North Point, and one
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