HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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PARS.
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Offices
1
Patterns...
66-74
Foreign Postage Rates..
155
Business Hours
2-3
Postcards
75-79
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Holidays
Local Parcel Post
80-89
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Letters
156
Division of Postal Districts...
Registration and Compensa-
Letters for Russia
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157
Deliveries...
6-7
tion
89-99
Exceptional Conditions
•
158
Pillar Boxes
8-9
Articles not allowed to be
Letters, etc., irregularly
Private Boxes
10-13
sent by post
100-101
marked with value
159.
Private Boxes between Hong-
Redirection & Interception 102-107
Postcards
160-162
kong and Canton
14-16
Poste Restante
108-112
Printed and Commercial
Postage Stamps, etc., Rules
Undelivered Correspondence 113-117
Papers
143-173
relating to Posting...
17-19
Articles of value
118
Patterns and Samples
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174-182
Reply Coupous
20
Certificate of Posting
119
Prohibited Articles
♣
183
Despatch...
21-30
Miscellaneous...
120-13)
Registration
184-194
Local Postage Rates
31
Local Money Orders and
Insurance of letters
195
Letters
32-40
Postal Notes
131-142
Printed Matter-Newspapers
41-43
Postal Notes
142A-153
Book Packets...
44-52
Commercial Papers
53-53
154
Foreign Parcel Post Foreign Money Orders... Imperial Postal Orders... General
196-239
210-248
249-258
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256
Prices Current Circulars
59-05
Countries comprised in Pos-
tal Union
OFFICES
1.-The Head Office is in the City of Victori, Hongkong, with branch offices at Kowloon, Sheung Wan (Morrison Street), and Sai Ying 'un (Pokfulam Road).
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.
3.-The Branch Office at Kowloon is open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on ordinary days, and from 8.30 to 9.30 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays. The Sheung Wan Office is open from 7 a.m. to 8.30 p.m., and the Sai Ying Pun Office from 7 a.m. to 7 pm.
HOLIDAYS
4-Sundays and all General and Public Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and unless the departure or arrival of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a General or Public Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching or receiving 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. () Queen's Road from City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade to Ship Street, Headquarter 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 and Macdonnell Road.
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