HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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Offices
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Patterns...
66-74
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Foreign Postage Rates.....
155
Business Hours
2-3
Post Cards
75-79
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Holidays
4
Local Parcel Post
80-88
Letters
156
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Division of Postal Districts...
5
Deliveries...
6-7
Registration and Compensa-
tion
Letters for Russia...
167
80-100
Exceptional Conditions
158
Pillar Boxes
8-10
Articles not allowed to be
Letters, etc., irregularly
Private Boxes
11-15
sent by post
101-102
marked with value
150
Private Boxes between Hong-
Redirection & Interception 103-110
Post Cards
100-162
kong and Canton ..
16-18
Poste Restante
111-115
Printed and Commercial
Postage Stamps, etc., Rules
Undelivered Correspondence 116-120
Papers
163-178
relating to Posting...
19.21
Articles of value
121
Patterns and Samples
174-181
Despatch ...
22-30
Certificate of Poeting
122
Prohibited Articles
182-183
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Local Postage Rates
31
Miscellaneous...
123-130
Registration
184-194
Letters
32-40
Local Money Orders and
Insurance of letters
195
Printed Matter-Newspapers
41-43
Postal Notes
131-142
Foreign Parcels Post
196-239
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Book Packets...
44-52
Postal Notes
143-153
Commercial Papers
53-59
Countries comprised in Pos-
Prices Current Circulars
59-65
tal Union
154
Foreign Money Orders... Imperial Postal Orders... General
210-248
249-254
255
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OFFICES
1.-The Head Office for British Postal business in China is in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch offices at Kowloon and Des Vœux Road Central (Western Branch). 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, Chefoo and Tientsin.
BUSINESS HOURS
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on week days from 7 a.m. to 6 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 at Kowloon 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, The Western Branch Office is open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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 is 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 Road.
(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 & Swire's Offices and Victoria Recreation Club.
(iii.) Queen's Road Central from Pedder Street and Wyndham Street to
No. 5 Police Station. (iv.) Queen's Road Central from Pedder Street and Wyndham Street to City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade, Zetland Street, Duddell Street and Ice House Street. (v.) Queen's Road from City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade to Ship Street, Head Quarter House, Arsenal Street and Praya East from Arsenal Street to Ship Street.
(vi.) Wyndham Street (east side) to Dairy Farm Office, College Gardens, St. Paul's College, Pedder's Hill, Government House, Government Offices Garden Road, Kennedy Road, Macdonnell Road and Bowen Road.
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