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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
(Austrian Agencies.)
Adrianople Beyrout Candia
Canea (Khania, La Canée) Cesme (Tchesme)
Chios (Khios)
Dardanelles
Dédé-Agatch (Dédé-Aghadj)
Durazzo
Galeppoli
Basutoland
Bermuda
Ineboli
Jaffa Janina
Jerusalem
Kaifa (Caiffa)
Kavala (Cavalla)
Kerassonde (Kéressoun)
Lagos (Turkey)
Mitylene
Prevesa
Retimo
Rhodes
Rodosto
Salonica
Samsoun
Santi Quaranta (Serandoz) Trebizond (Trapezunt)
Valona
Vathy-Samos
(British Colonies, Possessions and Protectorates.)
British Central African Protectorate
British Guiana
British Honduras
Cayman Islands
Chatham Islands
Falkland Islands
Cook Islands
Gambia
Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony Lagos
Malta
Newfoundland
Niger Coast Protectorate Northern Nigeria Protectorate St. Helena
Sierra Leone
Uganda Protectorate
West Indies.—Antigua, Bahamas
Barbadoes, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, Turk's Island Zululand
IMPERIAL POstal Orders.
253.-Imperial Postal Notes of the value named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in the United Kingdom, Ascension, Constantinople, Panama, Salonica, Smyrna, Antigua, Barbados, British Honduras, Bermuda, Cyprus, Dominica, Gambia, Gold Coast, Grenada, Gibraltar, Hongkong and its Agencies, Jamaica, Malta, Montserrat, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nevis. St. Helena, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Straits Settlements, Sierra Leone, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Virgin Islands can be obtained at Hongkong, or at any British Postal Agency in China at prices which include commission and which vary with the rate of exchange, viz. :-
-/6 1/- 1/6 2/6 5/- 10/- 10/6 20/-
The prices are published from time to time in the Government Gazette and can be obtained on application.
254.-The purchaser of any Postal Order must fill in the payee's name before parting with it. He may also fill in the name of the office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or in the countries named above.
25-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.
256.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precau- tion is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss or alleged loss of any such order.
257.-Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom are payable in Hongkong and at any of the British Postal Agencies in China.
258.-Any regulation in force in the United Kingdom governing the issue and pay- ment of Postal Orders there should to taken to apply to the Imperial Postal Orders issued and paid in Hongkong and at the British Postal Agencies in China.
GENERAL.
259.-As full information regarding articles that can and that cannot be sent by Post is published, under the proper heads, in the Postal Guide, no application will be entertained for the refund of the value of postage stamps on correspondence which is dis- covered, after the postage labels have been obliterated, to contain any prohibited article, or which exceeds the limit of weight, or which for any other reason cannot be for- warded and has consequently to be returned to the sender, and any loss resulting from a non-observance of the Rules by the sender of an article must be borne by him.
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN