APPENDIX
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TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS
A.
POSTAL SERVICE
(a) Number of postal establishments classified
according te category.
Six district post offices; plus
one in Ebeye, Marshalls; one
in Reta, Marianas; one in
Tinian, Marianas; one in
Capital Hill, Saipan. (There
is also one military post
office in Kwajalein.)
(b) Volume of letters, periodicais, parcels handled ...
805, 030 pounds of mail.
(c) Money orders 2.2... ccc ccc eee cece teeta
Number
Paid
B. TELEPHONE SERVICE
(a) Number of local systems ..............0.0 0000.
1,647
(b) Number of paid subscribers ...........--..0000
340
(¢) Number of instruments ...............00ccceeee
989
41,533
Number
Sent
19,619
Received 16,195
C. TELEGRAPH SERVICE
Revenue
$104,286
m7
6 Government-owned
(a) Number of stations .......... 0000 cee eee eee
ee orn pe
$449,114
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( d) Number of dispatches .........0.-.0 0000 cee eee
D.
Value
Issued 13,776
RADIO SERVICES
(a) Number of stations
Commercial Service
Mari+
Mar=
(Govt owned & operated)
@nas_
shalls
Radiotelephone .. .....0..-e005
Radiotelegraph ..........2..00-
{1}
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Palau
Ponape
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2
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Truk
Yap
Total
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(1)
6
1
6
4
39
Breadcasting Service
Govt owned & operated-AM.....
1
PrivatesFM ...ceescceeeanees 06
1
]
]
]
2
-
-
-
8
6
4
12
2
-
2
Non-Government Service *
Point-to-point (long range)...-++»
5
Ship stations. seco csceveuee
2
Short range... .ccseeeeeeeeeeees
1
6
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6
12
]
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]
]
1
6
:
.
23
14
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]
6
Government Service
Major stations **.....seesseaaee
Secondary (out-issand)
Paointetopoint .......seeecees
Short range ...eceeeeee vaceae
Ship stations (by registered
homeport) 2. cccccceseereseecoe
2
7
26
30
15
7
17
7
34
1t
18
9
104
79
2
-
2
]
5
]
1
*Not open to public correspondence
**Open to public correspondence are the stations noted under ‘commercial telegraph.”
(b) Some 11,505 privately owned sets, none of which are registered, are estimated in
indigenous homes.
“Telephone system in Palau was destroyed by Typhoon Saily.
Plans have been made to install a new 100 pair system.
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