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:-
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UNION COUNTRIKA (except as below)
United Kingdom..
Aden, Ascension, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermudas, British Central Africa Protec- torate, British East Africa Protectorate, British Guiana, British Honduras, British North Borneo, Canada, Cape Colony, Cayman Island, Ceylon, Cyprus, Falk- land Islands, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast Colony, India, (including Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, Pondicherry, Yanam), Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Islands, viz.:—Antigua, Dominica, Montserret, Nevis, St. Christopher, Virgin Islands, Malay States (Federated), viz :—Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Newfoundland, New Zealand, (including Cook Island, Island of Aitutaki, Niue and Mangaia), Nigeria (Northern), Nigeria (Southern), Orange River Colony, St. Helena, Sara- wak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaal. Trinidad, Turk's Island, Uganda, Windward Islands, viz.:-Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Zanzibar Macao
NON-UNION COUNTRIES :
Abyssinia
Afghanistan
Arabia.
Beclmansland Protectorate, including-
Kanye, Lake Ngani, Macloutsie, Mole- polole, Palachwe (Khamas Town), Sho- shong, and Tati River, China (or from China to Hongkong) Friendly Islands (Tonga Islands).. Morocco (except Casabianca, El-ksar-el- Ebir, Fez, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Maza- gan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of which places the Gibraltar Post Office or French Post Office maintains an agency under the Postal Union regulations).... Navigators' Islands (Samoa), Rhodesia N.E. and N.W., Northern Zambesin, Solomon Islands
LETTERS
¡PER † 0%.
SINGLE KEPLY
POST CARDS, EACH.
POST CARDS, BACH.
BOOKS KEWUP'B PER 2 OZ.
RROIS- TRATION.
RETURN
RECEIPT FOR
REGISTERED
ARTICLE.
COMMEE-
centa. 10
cents.
cents.
cents.
cents.
conto.
4
8
2.
10
10
5
10
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I
10
Same as for Books, except that the lowest chargo is 10 cents.
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 4 cents,
2
2
2(4 oz.)
10
10
10 (c)
8
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(d)
10 (ca)
2
10 (in)
10 (c)
10 (in)
10
8
2
10
5 (c) 10
00 10
2
2 (4 oz.) | 10 (b)
10
10
10 (c)
8
10
Co
10
Other parts
10(c)
8
2
10 (in)
BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON, AND CHANG-
CHOW, AND For Local DELIVERY
2
2
2 (4 oz.) 10
10
(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.
(e) Prepayment is compulsory.
(d) The delivery of registered articles for Abyssinia can be effected only at the Post Restante at Jibonti. They
should be addressed " Via Jibonti."
(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,
Cochin China,
Corea,
Formosa,
India,
Japan, Macao,
Netherlands India,
New Zealand, Philippines, Siam,
Straits Settlements, Timor, Tonkin.
Ceylon,
UNPAID AND PARTIALLY PAID LETTERS.
154.-Letters posted unpaid or insufficiently prepaid, for any country to which prepayment is compulsory, ure returned to the writers.
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