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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
INSURANCE OF PARCELS
222.--Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-
UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS
Aden
Ascension (via London)
do.
do.
do.
Bahamas
Barbados
Bermuda
British East Africa:—
Kilindini, Mombassa
Laum only (via London)
British Guiana, via L’don British Som liland Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)
Algeria
Austria-Hungary
Azores and Madeira
Belgium
Beyrouth
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Cameroons and Togo Cape Verde Island
§ Cyprus (via London) Falkland Islands (as far as Stanley only) (via London) Gambia (via London) Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London) India (via Calcutta)
Jamaica Lagos (via London) Leeward Islands do, Malay States Malta
Mauritius
Newfoundland (via L'don) New Zealand (via London) Nigeria (Southern) (via
London)
Nyasaland Protectorate Salonica
Sarawak
FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Danish West Indies
Denmark
Dutch East Indies Dutch Guiana
Dutch West Indies Ecuador
Egypt
Erithrea
Faroe Islands
Formosa
China(Japanese Post Offices) France
Chili
China.
Constantinople
Corea (via Japan)
Corsica
Crete
·
Cuba
Dahomey
French Gu'ana
French Guinea
French Somali Coast
French West Indies Germany
Iceland
*Italy
Ivory Coast Japan Karafuto
Kiaochau
Liberia
Seychelles
St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone
do.
||Sts. Settlements, Direct Tobago (via London) Trinidad do. United Kingdom (via
Gibraltar)
Windward Islands:-
Grenada, and St. Vincent (via L'don) St. Lucia do.
Zanzibar (via Calcutta)
Portuguese India
Portuguese West Africa Reunion
Roumania
Russia (in Asia)
Russia (including Finland)
Senegal
Servia
Smyrna
Sweden
Manchuria (Japanese Post Switzerland (via France)
Luxemburg
Macao
Madagascar
Offices)
Do. (via Belgium)
Montenegro
Tripoli
New Caledonia
Tunis
Norway
✦ Turkey
Portugal
United States
Portuguese East Africa
Holland
INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS
223. -Parcels for the undermentioned places can be insured :-
COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY)
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
and Iceland France
Denmark, Faroe Islands
Germany
Holland Luxemburg Norway
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
Portugal Sweden Switzerland
Insured articles have all the safeguards of the registration system; and, subject to the following regulations, compensation will be paid if they or any of their contents are lost in | the post. Insured articles must not be addressed to initials or in pencil.
may
A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender. He also obtain an advice of the delivery of a letter and in the case of certain countries of an insured parcel, under the same conditions as those applicable to registered letters.
All the seals on an insured letter must be of the same kind of wax (or lead in the case of parcels), and must bear distinct impressions of the same private device. Coins must not be used for sealing; and the device must not consist merely of straight, crossed, or curved lines which could readily be imitated.
If an article tendered for insurance does not, in the opinion of the Officer of the Post Office to whom it is tendered, fulfil the foregoing conditions as to packing and seal- ing, it is his duty to refuse to insure it. Nevertheless, the onus of properly enclosing, packing, and sealing the packet lies upon the sender; and the Post Office assumes no liability for loss arising from defects which may not be observed at the time of posting,
The amount for which an article is insured must be written by the sender both in words and in figures, at the top of the address side of the cover. No alteration or erasure of the inscription is allowed. If a mistake is made, the entry must be completely obliterated and an entirely new one made by the sender.
KEGULATIONS
224.—The fee (which is for insurance and registration) must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which the sender must hand in at the same time with the parcel to b affixed to the certificate of posting; they must not be placed on the cover or label of the parcel. A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insured pared.
*No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcelstaining h † Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipali, Inebei, Jaffa, Jarti Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retino, thedes, atonics, Saulson, San Giovanni di' Media, Sara Quaranta, Scio, Trehizond, Valonu. Vathi. No contention lies, iven to the loss in Cyprus of parcels contatore, watches or jewellery Insurance confined to parcels for Malaces, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore, Ench Parcel must be sealed in such a way as to parcels for palace, that it'should be opened without defcright The senders must supply a declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the grow weight
..of the Parcel,