HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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154. 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. 155.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Orders.
156.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH, IN ADDITION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION.
• Aden
• Antigua Argentine Republic Ascension
• Austria-Hungary
Azores
• Bahamas
* Barbados
§ Bechuanaland Protectorate]
* Belgium
Bermudu
• Bolivia
• Bosnia
• Brazil
(including
* British East Africa Pro-
tectorate Uganda)
* British Guiana
* British Honduras
British New Guinea British North Borneo British Protectorate of
Somali
British Southern Nigeria
·
Bulgaria
Cameroons
Canada (Dominion of) Cape Colony (including
Basutoland, British Be chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri qualand West, Little Namaqualand,St.John 8 River Territory, Trans- kei, Tembuland, and Walfisch Bay)
• Cayman Islands ⚫ Ceylon
Chili
Colombia, Republic of Congo, including Black Point, Majumba and Nyanza Corea Costa Rica Cyprus
• Danish Colonies; viz.
Greenland, St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas
* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)
• Dominica
* Dominican Republic (8an
Domingo)
• Ecuador
•
Egypt
Falkland Islands Fiji Islands
* France
• French Colonies; viz. -
Martinique, Guadeloupe
and
dependencies, FrenchGuiana(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- dichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanaon) Annam, Cam- bodia, Tonkin, and in Co. chin China, French Esta- blishments in Morocco, viz.—Casablanca, Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez Lar- aiche, Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands.
Gambia Gerniany
El-
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, Marrakesch, Mazagan, Mogador, Ra- bat, Saffi and Tangier. Gibraltar (including the British Post Offices at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez, Laraiche, Rabat, Casa- blanca, Saff, Mazagan, and Mogador)
* Gold Coust
* Greece
Grenada and the Grena-
dines
* Guatemala
* Herzegovina
India (including the In- dian Post Office Esta- blishments in the Per- sian Gulf)
* Italy
•
Jamaica Japan
Давнан Lagos
* Liberia
Luxemberg
• Madeira Malta
* Marquesas Islands
* Mauritius and its depen-
dencier
• Mexico
• Montenegro Montserrat
Natal (including Zulu-
land)
• Netherlands * Netherlands
Colonies,
viz.-Dutch Guiana (Su- rinam), Curacoa and dependencies, viz.—Bo- naire, Aruba, 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 Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North-west part of New Guinea (Papua)
* Necis
Newfoundland New South Wales New Zealand (including Cook or Hervey Islands and the islands of Pal- merston (Avarua), Sa- vage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger), Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki and Penrhyn (Tongar- eva).
* Nicaragua
* Norway
* Orange River Colony Panama Republic
• Paraguay
* Hayti
* Honduras (Republic of)
Hongkong 4 ils Agencies
• Patagonia
• Persia
* Pernt
Portugal
* Portuguese Colonies; viz. -Goa and its dependen-
cies (Damon and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Íslands and de- pendencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussern and I- lands of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Dela- goa Bay, and Mozam- bique
* Queensland
Rhodesia (Southern) Roumania
• Russia
St. Helena
* St. Kitte
* St. Incia
* St. Pierre-et-Miquelon
St. Vincent, West Indies
• Salvador
• Surowak
• Servia Seychelles
• Siam
*
Sierra Leone
South Australia
* Spain (including Balea- ric and Canary Island) Spanish Colonies; viz.–
Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies * Straits Settlements
• Sweden
* Switzerland
• Tahiti ↑ Tasmania
• Tobago Transcaal
• Trinidad Turkey
* Turk's Islands
United States
• United States Colonies, viz.— Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guan (Marian Islands).
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
+ Victoria
Virgin Islanda
† Western Avstralia
Zanzibar
* The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries marked thus. Uncut diamonds may, however, be sent by post to Canada and the Luited States. + In some of the Australian Colonies gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties. * Includ- ing Mashonaland and Matabeleland. Including Francistown Gaberones, Kanye, Lake Ngami, Lobasti, Macloutaie Machndi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolole, l'alachwe (Khamastown), Kamoulsa Shosong, and Tati River.
NOTE.—The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics,
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