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APPENDICES

Appendix X-Contd

(Chapter 15: Communications)

Postal Traffic

Number of post offices

Total revenue

Value of remittance business (money orders and postal

orders issued and paid)

Wireless licences issued

Direct despatches received:

Letter mails surface

Letter mails air

Parcel mails surface

Parcel mails air

Direct despatches made: Letter mails surface

Letter mails air

Parcel mails surface

Parcel mails air

Tons of mail by air (despatched)

:

:

:

:

:

Bags conveyed by Kowloon-Canton Railway

:

1961

1962

26

29

$77 m

$82 m

$31 m

$40 m

132,594

143,689

82

83

102

104

60

62

42

45

114

115

83

35

77

126

128

47

52

850

893

481,090

539,645

Telegraph and Radio Traffic

1961

1962

Telegrams accepted for transmission

1,020,499

1,061,667

Telegrams delivered

¦. J

1,206,414

1,313,311

Telegrams handled in transit

741,549

766,508

Telex calls Outward minutes

:

136,146

170,544

Telex calls-Inward minutes

162,212

204,045

Telex calls

Relayed minutes

21,066

29,641

Overseas Radiotelephone calls-Outward minutes

440,050

465,201

Overseas Radiotelephone calls-Inward minutes

589,481

674,504

Radio Pictures-Transmitted

204

70

Radio Pictures-Received

493

3,178

Harbourphone calls

Press Broadcasts Number of hours

Meteorological Broadcasts-Number of hours Inland Telegrams

56,719

52,459

:

25,864

26,594

:

58,898

71,731

:

4,881

4,905