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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
148. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Order is cut, defaced of mutilated, payment may be refused.
149.-Any officer in charge of a Post Office may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal Order, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.
150. After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue a Postal Order will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 151.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Order.
152.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH, IN ADDITION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION.
* Aden
* Antigua
* Argentine Republic
Ascension
† Australin
* Austria-Hungary
* Azores
* Bahamas
* Barbados
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Belgium Bermuda
* Bolivia
* Bosnia
* Brazil
British North Borneo
British East Africa Pro-
tectorate
* British Guiana
* British Honduras
*
British New Guinea Bulgaria
Cape Colony (including
Basutoland, British Be chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri- qualand West, Nama- qualand (Little),
St.
John's River Territory, Transkei, Tembuland, Walfisch Bay)
Cameroons
* Canada (Dominion of)
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Ceylon Chili
*Columbia, Republic of
Congo, including Black Point, Majuuiba and Nyanza
* Corea
Costa Rica * Cyprus
viz.
* Danish Colonies;
Greenland, St. Croiz, St. John, and St. Thomas
* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)
• Dominica
* Dominican Republic (San
Domingo)
* Ecuador
* Egypt
Falkland Islands, Fiji Islands
* France
* French Colonies; viz.— Martinique, Guadeloupe and dependencies, Fren- ch Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependen- cies, Ahgwey, Gaboon,
Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Wydah (also Sette Cama and Assinie) Réu- nion, Comoro Islands, Mayotte and dependen- cies, Madagascar, New Caledonia and dependen- cies, the French portion of the Low Archipelago, and the French Esta. blishments in India, Pon- dichery, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanon), Annam, Cam- bodge, Tonkin, and in Cochin China, French Establishments in Mor- occo, viz. ·Casablanca, El-Ksar-el-Khir Fez Lar- aiche, Mazagan,Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, Society Islands, and St. Pierre-et-Miquelon
Gambia
Germany German Colonies; viz. Caroline Islands, Marian Islands (except Guam), Pelao Islands, Marshall Islands, New Guinea(por- tion of), Samoa (Apia), Togo Territory, includ- ing Bageida, Little Popo, Lome, and Porto Seguro, and territory in South West Africa, viz., Grand Namaqua, the Damaras Country, and Southern portion of Ovambo; also Bagamoyo, and Dar-es- Salaam, Lindi and Tanga in East Africa. German Establishments in Mor- occo: viz., Casablanca, Laraiche, Mazagan, Mo- gador, Rabat, Saffi and Tangier.
Gibraltar (including the
British Post Offices at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez Laraiche, Rabat Casa. blanca, Satti, Mazagan, and Mogador)
* Gold Coust
* Greece
Grenada
Grenadines
* Guatemala
* Hayti
• Herzegovina
* Hondūras (Republic of)
Hongkong
* India * Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
Labuan Lagos
* Liberia
Luxemberg
* Madeira
•
Multa
Marquesas Islands
• Mauritius and dependen-
eies
• Mexico
Montenegro
Montserrat
Natal (including Zulu-
land
* Netherlands
* Netherlands
Colonies, viz.-Dutch Guiana (Su- rinam), Curacoa and dependencies, viz.—Bo- naire, Araba, the Ne- therlands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Saba, Java, Madura, Sumatra, Celebes, Bor- neo (except North-west part), Billiton, Archi- pelago of Banca, Archi- pelago of Riouw, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Floris, and the south-west part of Timor), the Archipelaga of the Moluccas, and the north-west part of New Guinea (Papa)
* Nevis
Newfoundland New Zealand
*
Nicaragua
* Norway
Orange River Colony * Paraguay
• Patagonia
* Persia * Peru * Portugal
* Portuguese Colonies, viz. -Gon and its dependen- cies (Damoa and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape- Verd Islands and de- pendencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussera and Is- lands of St. ThomGO. and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishments. of Ajuria, Angola, Dela- goa Day, and Mozam- bique
* Roumania
• Russia
St. Helena
* St. Kitts
* St. Lucia
St. Vincent.. West Indies
• Salvador
• Sarawak
* Servia
* Seycheller
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Siam
Sierra Leone
* Spain (including Balean- ric and Canary Islands) * Spanish Colonies; viz.— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies Straits Settlements * Sweden * Switzerland
* Tahiti * Tobago * Tortola
Transvaal
* Trinidad
* Turkey * Turk's Islands
* United States
• United
States Colonies, viz. Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guam (Marian Islands). * Uruguay
* Venezuela
* Virgin Islands
Zanzibar
* The transmission by Letter Post of coin, silver, precious stones, Jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries marked thus. *
↑ In some of the Australian Colonics gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties. NOTE.—The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italica.