HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
154.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION
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Abyssinia
* Aden
·
Antigua
•
Argentine Republic Ascension
• Austria-Hungary
Azores
* Bahamas
• Barbados
↑ Bechuanaland Protectorate
*
Belgium
* Bermuda
* Bolivia
* Bosnia
* Brazil
British East Africa Pro-
tectorate Uganda)
* British Guiana
(including
* British Honduras
British New Guinea
• British North Borneo
British
in China
Postal Agencies
* British Somaliland
British Southern Nigeria Bulgaria
• Caicos Island Cameroons
* Canada (Dominion of)
Cape Colony (including Basutoland, British Be- chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri- qualand West, Little Namaqualand, St. John's 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
Сургия
* Danish Colonies; viz.
Greenland, St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas
* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic (San
Domingo)
Ecuador
Egypt
Erithrea
* Falkland Islands
Fiji Islands
* France
and
• French Colonies, viz. :- Martinique, Guadeloupe dependencies, FrenchGuiana(Cayenne), Sénégal 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, víz. :-Casablanca, Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez, Lar- aiche, Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands, Gambia
Germany
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, Marrakeschi, Mazagan, Mogador, Ra- bat, Saffi and Tangier. Gibraltar (including the British Post Offices at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez, Laraiche, Rabat, Casa- blanca, Saffi, Mazagan, and Mogador)
* Gold Coust * Greece
Grenada and the Grena-
dines
* Guatemala
* Hayti
• Herzegovina
* Honduras (Republic of) * Hongkong
• India (including the In- dian Post Office Estab. lishments in the Per- sian Gulf)
* Italy
Italian Somaliland Jamaica
* Japan
• Labuan
Lagos
• Liberia Luxemburg
* Madeira
Malta
* Marquesas Islands * Mauritius and its depen
dencies
• Mexico
* Montenegro
* Montserrat
Natal (including Zulu
land)
* Netherlands
• Netherlands
Colonie 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 Bancá, 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)
• Nevis
*
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 Nigeria
* Norway
Norfolk Island
Nyassaland Protectorate Orange River Colony
• Panama Republic Paraguay
* Patagonia
• Persia
• Peru
• Portugal
* Portuguese Colonies :-
Goa and ita dependen- cies (Damoa and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Islands and de- pendencies Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussera and Is- lands of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Dela- goa Bay, and Mozam Lique Queensland
* Rhodesia (Southern) * Roumania
* Russia
St. Helena
* St. Kitts
* St. Lucia
St. Pierre-et-Miquelon
* St. Vincent, West Indies
* Salvador
* Sarawak * Servia
Seycheller
* Siam
Sierra Leone
+ South Australia
* Spain (including Balea.
ric and Canary Islands
* Spanish Colonies, viz. :— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies
* Straits Settlements
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Tahiti
† Tasmania * Tobugo
Transcaal
• Trinidad
Tristan d'Acunta
* Turkey
* Turk's Islands
United Kingdom
* United States
* United States Colonies, viz.:-Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guam
(Marian Islands). Uruguay
• Venezuela
† Victoria
•
Virgin Islanda
+ Western Australia
Zanzibar
• The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries marked thus Unent diamonds may, however, be sent by post to Canada and the United 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 Ngani, Lobasti, Macloutsie, Machudi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolole, Palachwe (Khamastown), Ramoulsa Shosong, and Tati River.
NOTE.-The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics