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 :—
TO
LETTERS
SINGLE
POST
REPLY
POST
PER0z.] CARDS, CARDS,
EACH.
EACH.
BOOKS NEWSP'S P'TERNS ETC. PER 2 OZ.
RETURN
REGIS- RECEIPT FOR |TRATION. REGISTERED
COMMER CIAL PAPERS.
ARTICLE.
UNION COUNTRIZA (except as below)
United Kingdom
Aden, Ascension, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Central Africa Protec- torate, British East Africa Protectorate, British Guiana, British Honduras, British North Borneo, Canada, Cape Colony, Ceylou, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fiji Is lands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast Co lony, India, including Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, Pondicherry, Yanam, Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Lee. ward Islands, viz.:-Antigua, Dominica, Montserret, Nevis, St. Christopher, Vir- gin Islands, Malay States (Federated), viz.:-Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, New. foundland, New Zealand, Nigeria (Nor- thern), Nigeria (Southern), St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Trinidad, Turk's Island, Uganda, Windward Islands, viz.:-Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Zanzibar Macao
NON-UNION COUNTRIES :-
Abyssinia.
Afghanistan
Arabia
Bechuanaland Protectorate, including-
Kanye, Lake Ngami, Macloutsie, Mole- polole, Palachwe (Khamas Town), Sho- shong, 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)... Navigators' Islands (Samoa), Rhodesia, in- cluding -- Mashonaland, Matabeleland, Northern Zambesia, Solomon Islands Other parts .......
BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON, AND CHANG-
CHOW, AND FOR LOCAL DELIVERY
cents. 10
cents.
cents.
4
8
cents, 2 $
cents.
centa.
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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 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,
New Zealand, 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