HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
PARS.
PARS.
PARS.
Offices..
1
Local Parcel Post
81-80
Letters for Russia
159
Business Hours
2-3
Registration and Compensa-
Exceptional Conditions
180
Holiday's
tion
90-101
Division of Postal Districts..
5
Articles not allowed to be
Letters, etc., irregularly
marked with value
161
Deliveries
0-7
sent by post
102-103
Letters to or from Soldiers,
Pillar Boxes
8-10
Private Boxes ..
11-15
Postage Stamps, Post Cards,
Redirection and Interception 104-111 Poste Restante
Undelivered Correspondence 117-121
etc.
102-103
112-116
Post Cards
164-166
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Printed and Commercial
Wrappers and Envelopes.
16-18
Articles of value
122
•
Papers
167-177
Despatch
19-20
Miscellaneous..
123-131
Patterns and Samples
178-185
Local Postage Rates
27
Local Money Orders and
Prohibited Articles
186-187
Letters
23-30
Postal Rates
132-143
Registration
188-199
Printed Matter-Newspapers
87-14
Postal Notes
144-155
Insurance of letters
199
Book Packets
45-53
Countries comprised in Pos
General Regulations
200
Commercial Papers
54-59
tal Union..
156
Foreign Parcels Post
243
Prices Current Circulars
60-66
Foreign Postage Rates
157
Foreign Money Orders....
244-252
Patterns
67-75
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Imperial Postal Orders
253-253
Post Cards
76-30
Letters
159
General
250
OFFICES.
1.-The Head Office for British Postal business in China is in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch office at Kowloon. There is a Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places, viz:—
Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Hankow, Liu Kung-tau and Chefoo.
BUSINESS HOURS.
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on week days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m. In the event of a contract mail arriving after the ordinary business hours, the office is opened for the delivery of correspondence as soon as possible after the mails have been landed and sorted, and will be kept open for one hour thereafter.
3.-The Branch Office is open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on ordinary days, and from 8 to 9 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays.
HOLIDAYS.
4.-Sundays and all Public and Government Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a Public or Government Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mails.
DIVISION OF POSTAL DISTRICTS.
5. The City of Victoria will be divided as follows:-
(i.) West side of Pedder Street, Praya Central from Pedder Street to Wing Shing Street. All streets and lanes running from Praya to Queen's Roads.
(ii.) East side of Pedder Street, Des Voeux Road from Pedder Street to City Hall, Streets from Des Voeux Road to Queen's Road, Praya Reclam- ation from Queen's Buildings to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's Offices and Victoria Recreation Club.
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Original from UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN