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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES
155.-The Rate of Postage to be prepaid in Hongkong on letters for all Foreign Countries and other British possessions is shown in the attached table :-
TO
UNION COUNTRIES (except as below).
United Kingdom
Commercial
Papers and
Samples.
Not ex Each ad- Post
Single ceeding ditional Cards,
Books, Reply |Newsp's] Regis. Receipt
Post Prices
tration Cards, current,
Return
1 oz.
each.
OZ.
each. etc., per
2 oz.
Fee.
for Regin tered | Articles.]
cente.
10
cents.
6
cents. 4
cents.
cents.
cente.
8
2 *
10
centa.
10
4+
10
Ber-
Aden, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Bar-
bados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, mudas, British Central Africa, British East Africa, British Guiana, British Honduras, British New Guinea, British North Borneo, British Somaliland, Caicos Is., Canada, Cape Colony, Cayınan Is., Ceylon, Cyprus, Egypt (including the Sondan), Falkland Islands, Fanning Island, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, GoldCoast Colony, India (British), including Bahrain, Chandernagore, Gusdur, Karikal, Mahé, Muscat, Pondicherry, srd Yanam; Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Islands, viz. :—Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts and Virginį Islands; Malay States (Federated) viz.:— Kelantan, Kedah, Pertis, Tringganu Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, and Sel. angor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, including Zululand: Newfoundland, New Zealand, including Cook (or Hervey) Islands, Danger| (Pukapuka), Manshiki, Palmerston (Ava- rua), Penrhyn (Tongareva), Rakanaga, Savage (Niue) and Suwarrow; Nigeria (Northern), including Borgu, Idda, Lokoja, etc.; Nigeria (Southern), including Akassa, Asaba Beuin, Bonny, Brass. Burutu, Calabar, Degama, Egwanga, Forcados, Idah, Onitsha, Opobo, Sapele, Warri, etc.; Nor- folk Islands, Orange River Colony, Rhodesia (Southern), St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaal, including Swaziland; Trinidad, Tristan d'Acunha, Turks Island, Uganda, Windward Islands, víz. :- Grenadines, Grenada, St. Lucis, St. Vincent and Zanzibar. Linkungtau and British Post Offices at Shanghai, Amoy, Chefoo, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Swatow and Tientsin
Canton including Chinese Post Offices at Fat-
shan, Chan Chuen and Whampo)
Maoro..
4+
|2(} oz.) †|2(3 oz.)† |2 (1 oz.)†|2(1 oz.)†
NON-UNION Countries :--
Afghanistan (a).
Arabia (Hejaz and Yamen)
Banks Islands.......
China (Chinese Post Offices), (b) from Hong-
kong and Liukungtau only
Ellice Islands....
Friendly (or Tonga) Islands
Gilbert Islands
4 (c)
10 (c)
10 (c)
4
(1'oz) † 4(joz.)†| 10 (c) 10
6
Morocco (except Arcila, Casablanca, Elksarel-
10 (c)
kbir, Fez, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Afazagon, Mequinez, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier ! and Tetuan, at each of which places the| British Post Office or French Post Office 10 (c) or German Post Office or Spanish Post Office maintains an Agency under the Postal| Union Regulations)
New Hebrides, Sta. Cruz Is., Solomon Is. Rhodesia (N. E. and N. W.). Local Delivery,
10 (c) 10
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10
10
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents for commercial papers, and 4 cents for samples.
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10
10
10
10
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10
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Hongkon
(a) Correspondence should bear the sender's name on the cover to avoid detention by the Ameer's agent at Peshawur. postage stamps are valid for the payment on correspondence for Afghanistan as far as the Indian Frontier only; for the transit thence to destination additional postage is payable to the Afghan authorities. () The foreign Post Offices in China are included in the Postal Union. (e) Prepayment of postage is com pulsory, (is) 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 oz. or fraction thereof, víz, :—Australia, Ceylon, India, Netherlands India, Siam, Canada, Corea, Japan, New Zealand, Straits Settlements, China, Formosa, Maeso, Philip- pines, and Timor. † For Chinese Postal Hong Packets the rate is 4 cents per i oz. Pre-payment of postage on Postal Hong Packets la com- pulsory.