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Jamaica
Johore (Malay States) Kedah (Malay States) Labuan
Lagos
HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Newfoundland
New Zealand ·
Nigeria
Nyassaland
Orange Free State
Panama (British Agency)
Penrhyn Island
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands Protectorate Somaliland Protectorate
Straits Settlements
Malta
Mauritius
Swaziland
Tobago
Rhodesia(Northern and Southern) Transvaal
Montserrat Morocco (British Agencies at St. Helena Casablanca, Fez, Larache, St. Kitts Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, St. Lucia Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan) St. Vincent
Sarawak
Natal Nevis
Savage Island
Trinidad
Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda
Virgin Islands
United Kingdom
Zanzibar
If
230.-The purchaser of any Postal Order must fill in the payee's name before parting with it. He may also fill in the name of the office where payment is to be made. this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or in the countries named above.
231.-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.
If this
232.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. precaution is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss of any such order. 233.-Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom and above places are payable in Hongkong and at any of the British Postal Agencies in China. Stamps affixed to orders to make up odd amounts should be left clean and not defaced in any way whatever.
234.-Any regulation in force in the United Kingdom governing the issue and pay- ment of Postal Orders there should be taken to apply to the Imperial Postal Orders issued and paid in Hongkong and at the British Postal Agencies in China.
General
235.-Should it appear that Money Orders or Postal Orders are used by the public fo the transmission of large sums of money, or if any other circumstances should give ris to an abuse of the facilities offered, the Postmaster-General may increase the rates o . commission or even suspend for a time the issue of all orders.
Radio-Telegrams
237.-Radio-telegrams will be accepted at the General Post Office for transmission to ships equipped with Wireless Telegraph apparatus through the Coast Station at Cape D'Aguilar.
238. The approximate number of hours after departure or before arrival during which ships can be reached through the Cape D'Aguilar s'ation is 24 hours.
239.-The charges for ordinary radio-telegrams are as follows:-
To
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(2) French, Japanese, and Russian vessels (2) British vessels: Ajax, Antilochus, Bellero- phon, Cyclops, Ixion, Protesilius, Talthybius, Teucer and Titan
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(3) Austrian and Spanisli vessels...
(4) Danish vessels
(5) Other vessels
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For a radio-telegram of 10 words or under.
Fixed charge of $3 plus 20 cents a word.
Fixed charge of $5.
Fixed charge of $4.50. Fixed charge of $3 plus 18 cents a word. Particulars obtainable at the Radio-Telegraph
Counter.
more than 10 words.
50 cents a word.
50 cents a word.
45 cents a worl.
18 cents
a worl.