HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
PARS.
PARS.
PARS.
Offices
Patterns ...
66-74
Foreign Postage Rates ..
156
Business Hours
2-3
Postcards
75-79
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Holidays
Local Parcel Post
80-88
Letters
156
Division of Postal Districts...
5
Deliveries......
6-7
Registration and Compensa-
tion
Letters for Russia.....
...
157
89-100
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
159
Private Boxes between Hong-
Redirection & Interception 103-110
Postcards
160-162
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
Reply Coupons
21A
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Certificate of Posting
122
Prohibited Articles
182-183
Despatch...
22-30A
Miscellaneous...
123-130
Registration
184-194
Local Postage Rates
31
Local Money Orders and
Insurance of letters
193
Letters
32-40
Postal Notes
131-142
Foreign Parcel Post
196-230
Printed Matter-Newspapers
41-49
Postal Notes
143-153
Book Packets ...
44-52
Countries comprised in Pos-
Commercial Papers
53-58
tal Union
154
Foreign Money Orders... Imperial Postal Orders... General
210-248
249-256
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266
Prices Current Circulars
59-65
OFFICES
1.- The Head Office is in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch offices at Kowloon and Des Voeux Road Central (Western Branch).
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 Reclama- tion 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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