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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
There is also a Letter Box fixed in the Charge Room at Tsim Sha-tsui Police Station. Letters containing any article of value should not be posted in these boxes, but should be registered at the General Post Office.
Persons posting in these boxes may cancel their stamps by writing the date across
them.
POSTAGE STAMPS.
7.-Hongkong Postage Stamps of the following values can be purchased and are available at any British Post Office or Agency in Hongkong or China:—
2 cents.
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19
5
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10
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20 30
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50 cents.
1 dollar.
2 dollars.
3
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5
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Post Cards-
1 cent.
2 cents (reply paid). 4 cents.
8 cents(with reply paid),
8.-Boxholders are at liberty to mark their Postage Stamps on the back or face or by perforation, so as to prevent their being stolen. If the mark be on the face, it must be such as not to interfere with the clean appearance of the stamp.
9.--Correspondence will not be stamped at the Post Office and charged to a boxholder's account, except as provided by paragraph 11.
RATES OF POSTAGE.
10.-Rates of Postage in Hongkong and at British Post Offices in China :-
UNION COUNTRIES
TO
LETTERS
PER0Z.
BINGLE REPLY
POST POST CARDS CARDS each. each.
BOOKS NEWSP'S P'TERNS ETC. PER 2 OZ.
RETURN REGIS- RECEIPT FOR! TRATION, REGISTERED
ARTICLE.
COMMER-
CIAL PAPERS
cents.
cents.
cents.
cente.
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2
cents. 10
cents.
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except :-
Macao
NON-UNION COUNTRIES :-
Abyssinia..
Afghanistan
Africa (West Coast Native Possessions). Arabia
Bechuanaland Protectorate, including-
Kanye, Lake Ngami, Maclontsie, Masho- | naland, Matabeleland, Molepolole, Pala- chwe (Khamas Town), Shoshong, Tati River, and Zambesi ..
British Central Africa, including-British Nyassaland, Barotse, Lake Moero, Tan- ganyika, and Upper Zambesi....
China (or from China to Hongkong) Corea..
Antan.
Friendly Islands (Tonga Islands). Madagascar(except French Establishments,
viz., Ambositra, Andevovante, anarivo, Diego Suarez, Fenerive, Fiara- nantsoa, Foulpointe, Ivondro, Maevata- nana, Mahambo, Mahanoro, Mahela, Ma- intirano, Majunga, Mananjary, Moranda- va, Morotsangana, Nossi-V6, St. Mary, Tamatave, Vatomandry, and Vohemar). Morocco (except Casablanca, El-ksar-el. kbir, Fez, Laraiche, Mazgan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of which places the Gibraltar Post Office or French Post Office maintains an agen- cy under the Postal Union regulations). Navigators Islands (Samoa) Niger Coast Protectorate, viz :—
Benin, Bonny, Brass, Calabar, Opobo, and Warree or Forcados
Orange Free State
Sarawak
Society Islands
Other parte
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NIGEN
10
5 (b)
10 in) 10
10 (c)
8
2
10 (in)
BETWEEN HONgkong and Canton, and for Local
DELIVERY
10 (c)
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20
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10 (c)
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Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents
(a.) An additional charge is made on delivery,
(b.) Registration in China extends to Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai and Hankow only. (c.) Prepayment is compulsory.
(in.) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival.