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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Delivery of Registered Correspondence
142. The signature of the addressee of a registered letter is accepted by the Postmaster-General and delivery effected thereon if he is satisfied that it sufficiently establishes the addressee's identity, but any further proof of identity or guarantee such as a "chop" of a firm of standing known to the Postmaster-General and required by him shall be produced if necessary to his satisfaction.
143.-A register of signatures is kept at the General Post Office where any person may register his signature on payment of a fee of $10 per annum, when personal delivery will be made on such signature at the General Post Office.
144.-Receipts for registered letters addressed to a firm inust be signed with the name of some individual for that firm, and not simply with the name of the firm itself.
Insurance
145.-Letters containing paper money, or documents, etc., on which a value has been declared, may be sent from Hongkong to any of the following places, insured to the amount of the declared value:-
* Abyssinia.
Aden (including Perim). Algeria.
Argentine Republic.
Austria Hungary.
Azores.
Barbados.
Belgium.
Berniuda.
Bosnia Herzogovina. Brazil.
* British East Africa and
Uganda.
British Guiana.
British Honduras.
* British North Borneo. British Somaliland (Berbera, Bulhar and Zeyla only). Bulgaria.
Burina. Canary Islands.
Cape Verd Islands (Praia,
St. Vincent & Santiago). Caroline Islands.
Ceylon.
* Chili.
China:
Brit sh Post Office Agencies
Japanese Agencies
Corea (Chosen).
Corsi ca.
Cyprus.
* Dahomey.
Danish West
Indies (St.
Thomas, St. John and St. Croix).
Deninark.
Dutch East Indies (includ- ing Java, Sumatra and Dutch Borneo, etc). Dutch Guiana.
Egypt.
* Erithrea.
| + Falkland Islands.
Faroe Islands.
Fiji Islands. Formosa. France.
* French Congo. French Guiana. *French Guinea. French India.
French Indo China (An- nam, Cambodia, Cochin- China, Laos and Tonkin). French Somali Coast
(Djibouti only). French West Indies (Guade- loupe and Martinique). Gaboon. Gambia.
Germany.
* Gold Coast Colony (Limit
1,500 Francs). Greenland.
Grenada.
Holland.
Iceland.
India (British).
Italy.
* Ivory Coast.
Jamaica.
Japan (including Japanese
Sagalien).
Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and Tortola [Virgin Islands]). Libya (Tripoli and Beng-
hazi only). Luxemburg. Macau.
* Madagascar (including Comoro Islands, Mayotte, Grand Comoro, Moheli and Anjouan or Jolianna).
Madeira.
* Malay States (Limit 1,500
Francs).
Malta.
Marshall Islands.
Mauritania.
Mauritius. Monac ›. Montenegro. * Morocco. New Foundland. * Nigeria, Southern. Norway. Nossi Bé. Portugal.
* Portuguese East Africa. * Portuguese India. Portuguese Timor (Dilly
only).
* Portuguese West Africa. Réunion.
Roumania.
Russia. St. Helena.
St. Lucia.
St. Vincent.
Senegal and Upper Sen- egal and Niger. Servia.
* Seychelles.
Sierra Leone (Freetown
only).
Spain (including Balearic
Islands).
Straits Settlements. Sweden. Switzerland.
Trinidad and Tobago. Tunis. Turkey.
Uganda. United Kingdom.
*
* Insurance confined to certain places only. List of places may be seen at the Post Office. + The amount insurable is limited to Francs 1,250.