HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES.
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153.-The Rate of Postage to be prepaid in Hongkong and at the several British Postal Agencies in China on letters for all Foreign countries and other British possessions is as follows:-
ΤΟ
LETTERS
PER 3 OZ.
SINGLE KEPLY
POHT
PORT CARDE, CARDS, BACIL. EACH.
BOOKS NEWSP'S P'TERNS
RETURN
REGIS. RECEIPT FOR
TRATION, REGISTERED
ETC. PER 2 07.
COMMER- CIAL PAPERS
ARTICLE.
UNION COUNTRIES (except as below)
United Kingdom
Aden, Ascension, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Central Africa, Britishi East Africa, British Guiana, British Honduras, British North Borneo, Canada. Cape Colony, Ceylon, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Const Colony, India, including Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, Pondi- cherry, Yanam, Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Islands, viz.:—Antigua, Dominica, Montserret, Nevis, St. Chris topher, Virgin Islands, Malay States (Federated), viz.:-Negri Sembilan, Pa. hang, Perak, Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Newfoundland, Niger Coast Pro- tectorate, Niger Territory, St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,
Straits Settlements, Tobago, Trinidad, Turk's Island, Uganda, Windward Islands, viz.:-Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vicent, Zanzibar
Macao
NON-UNION COUNTRIES :-
Abyssinia.
Afghanistan
Africa (West Coast, Native Possessions). Arabia
Bechuanaland Protectorate, including— Kanye, Lake Ngami, Macloutsie, Mole- polole, Palachwe (Khamas Town), Rhode sia (comprising Mashonaland, Matabele- land, and Northern Zambesia), Shoshong, and Tati River,
China (or from China to Hongkong) Friendly Islands (Tonga Islands), Morocco (except Casablanca, El-ksar-el- kbir, Fez, Laraiche, Mazagan, 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).. Samoa (Navigators' Islands)
Other parts.
BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON, AND CHANG,
CHOW, AND FOR LOCAL DELIVERY
(a) An additional charge is made on delivery,
cents. 10
cents.
cents.
4
8
cente,
2 $
cents.
ceuta.
10
10
2
10(e) 10 (ca)
10 (ca) 10 (c)
10
5 (c)
449
10
10 (c)
10
10(e)
44
N
00 00 00 00
00
28
ad
8
00 00
2 &
10
10
1111 8
2 (4 oz.)
10
10
10 (in)
10 (in)
10 fin
10 (in)
2
10
2 (4 oz.) | 10 (b)
2
10
2
NA
1
10
21
I
10
2
10 (in),
2 (4 oz.) 10
10
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents.
(b) Registration in China through British Offices extends to Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo Shanghai, Liu Kung Tau and Hankow only.
(c) Prepayment is compulsory.
(i) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival,
• Letters for these places posted at any Office other than in the Colony (viz., at any British Postal Agency in China or any Imperial Chinese Post Office using Hongkong Stamps) are subject to the rate of 10 cents per half ounce.
§ Newspapers to the following British Possessions and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 ounces or fraction thereof, viz.:-
Australia,
Annam, China, Ceylon,
Cochin China,
Corea,
Formosa,
India,
Japan, Macao, Netherlands India, Philippines,
Siam,
Straits Settlements, Timor,
Tonkin.
UNPAID AND PARTIALLY PAID LETTERS.
154.-Letters posted unpaid or insufficiently prepaid, for any country to which prepayment is compulsory, are returned to the writers.
LETTERS FOR RUSSIA.
155.-The addresses of letters for Russia should be very plainly written; the name of the town and of the province in which it is situated should also be added in English.
EXCEPTIONAL CONDITIONS.
156.-The countries in which exceptional conditions apply, such as compulsory pre- payment of postage, the collection of an additional charge on delivery, or the absence