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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Basutoland
Bermuda
(British Colonies, Possessions and Protectorates)
British Central African
Protectorate
British Guiana
British Honduras
Cayman Islands Cook Islands Falkland Islands Gambia
Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony Lagos Malta
Newfoundland
Niger Coast Protectorate Northern and Southenr Nigeria Protectorate St. Helena
Sierra Leone
Somaliland
tectorate
British Pro-
Uganda Protectorate West Indies :
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Antigua, Bahamas, Barbadoes, Dom- inica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vin- cent, Tobago, Trinidad, Turk's Island, Zululand
Local Postal Notes
220.- Local Postal Notes are issued as follows at the General Post Office and at the British Agencies in China, payable within six months at those offices and also at Macao :---
Commission.
Amount.
Commission.
Amount.
25 cents
50 $1.00
1 cent
$3.00
3 cents
1
4.00
4
""
>>
1
5.00
5
""
2.00
2
10.00
10
""
"1
221. In addition to the above commission on Postal Notes issued at the General Post Office, Hongkong, Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy and Foochow payable at Shanghai, Ningro, Hankow, Liu Kung Tau, Chefoo and Tientsin a further charge at current rates is made to cover the difference between chopped and clean dollars.
222.-Broken ainounts may be made up by the use of Hongkong postage stamps not ex- ceeding 24 cents in value affixed to the face of any one Postal Note. Such stamps should be left clean and not defaced. Perforated or marked stamps cannot be accepted for this purpose.
223.-The office issuing any Postal Note shall fill in the name of the port where it is payable. The purchaser may, before parting with the order, fill in the name of the Payee.
224.--Every person to whom a Postal Note is issued should retain the counter- foil bearing the number, date and name of office of issue, to facilitate enquiry if the Order should be lost, and should register the letter in which it is forwarded.
225.-If a Postal Note be crossed "- & Co.," payment will only be made through a Banker, and, if the name of a Banker is added, payment will only be made through that Banker.
226.—After a Postal Note has once been paid, to whomsoever it is paid, the Government will not be liable for any further claim.
227. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Note is cut, defaced of mutilated, payment may be refused.
228.-Any officer in charge of a PostOffice may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal Note but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.
229. After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue a Postal Note will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable, 230.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Notes.