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(see Chapter 6 for details), while the Far East Flying Training School provides Primary Flying Training and Aeronautical Engineering and Electronics Training.
All air services to Hong Kong Airport are of an international character and nineteen airlines, including two local airlines, operate air services connecting Hong Kong with the principal world air routes at a frequency of 184 flights to and from Hong Kong a week. The notable features of the year's operations have been the introduction of the turbo-prop Bristol Britannia 312 and the Super Constellation type G, while B.O.A.C.'s Comet IV made its first trip to the Colony for the opening of the new runway.
Details of traffic for the year are:
In
Out
Passenger Aircraft
Passengers...
Freight
4,773
4,780
122,082
132,269
792,061 kilos.
2,646,725 kilos.
403,295 kilos.
288,977 kilos.
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Postal Services. The upward trend in postal business during recent years continued in 1958 with both traffic and financial figures for the year being the highest recorded.
Considerable difficulty was still experienced in accommodating this increase in the two main Post Offices at Victoria on the Island and Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon; although additional accommoda- tion, which will be made available on upper floors of the General Post Office building early in 1959, will be of assistance.
No new Post Offices were opened in 1958 and there is still a need for more Post Offices in outlying districts. A vigorous pro- gramme of development is, however, being followed and new offices for Kowloon City, Mong Kok, Sheung Shui and Peng Chau Island are already under construction. Planning has also reached an advanced stage for construction of an airmail centre at Kai Tak Airport, and preliminary plans have been made for new Post Offices at other points, including a new Central Post Office on Nathan Road in Kowloon.
An increase in the number of destinations served by ships calling at Hong Kong resulted in the number of direct letter mail
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