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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN POStage Rates.
157.-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
| PER } OZ. |
BINGLK KKPLY
POST CARDS, EACH,
BOOKS
POST
CARDS, EACH.
NEWSP'S PER 2 OZ.;
REG18- TRATION.
RETURN
RECEIPT FOR
[REGISTERED
cents. 10
cents. cents.
centa,
2 #
centa, 10
cents.
10
UNION COUNTRiks (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, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher, Virgin Islands, Malay States (Federated), viz.:—Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Newfoundland, New Zealand, including Cook or Hervey Island, Palmerston (Avarua), Savage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger) Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki, and Penrhyn (Tongareva) Islands, Nigeria (Northern), including Borgu, Idila and Lakoja Nigeria (Southern), including Akassa, Asaba Beniu, Bonny, Brass, Burutu, Calabar, Forcados, Onitsha, Opobo, and Warree,Orange River Colony, St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaal. Trinidad, Turk's Island, Úganda, Wind- ward Islands, viz.:-Grenadines, the, St. Grenadi, Lucia, St. Vincent Zanzibar, Hongkong and British Post Offices at】 Shanghai, Ningpo, Hankow, Lin Kung Tau, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Hoihow, Canton, and Chefoo (between Hongkong and Canton the rate for Letters is 2 cents per oz.) .......
Macao, (from Hongkong and Canton)....
Do., (from all other British Post Offices in China..
NON-UNION COUNTRIES:-
Abyssinia, (the delivery of registered art- icles for Abyssinia can be effected only at Poste the Restante at Jibouti. They should be addressed “ciả Jibouti”,).. Afghanistan Arabia
China,
Do., Foreign (non-British) Establishments,
(Friendly Islands Tonga Islands), . Morocco (except Casablanca, El-ksar-el-`
kbir, Fez, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Maza- gon, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of which places the Gibraltar Post Office French Post Office or German Post Office maintains an
Agency under the Postal Union Regulations),
Navigator's Island, (Samoa Island),
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10
10
1
2
2 §
10
10
1
2
2 §
10
10
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10 (c)
10 (ca)
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4
10
10
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10 (b)
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10
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Rhodesia, (N.E. and N.W.), including
Northern Zambesia....
10
Solomon Island,
Other parts,
10 (c)
Local Delivery,
2
00
8
10
22
10 (in)|
2 $
10
12
10
COMMER- ARTICLE.
PAPERS.
PATTERNS
AND
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents.
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 4 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, Hankow, Liu Kung Tau, and Chefoo only. (e) Prepay ment is compulsory, (in) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival. Single 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, Ceylon, Formosa, Japan, Netherlands India, Philippines, Straits Settlements, China, Corea, India, Macao, New Zealand, Siam and Timor, * For Chinese Postal Hong packets the rate to and from Canton and to Macao is 4 cents per j doz.
Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
SAMPLES.