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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
222. Broken amounts 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.
Imperial Postal Orders
231.--Postal Orders of the values -/6, 1/-, 1/6, 2/6, 5/-, 10/-, 10/6, 20/- may be purchased at Hongkong, or the British Post Office Agencies in China at prices which include com- mission, and vary with the rate of exchange, payable within three months at any Post Office in the following British Possessions:-
Antigua
Ascension
Bahamas
Barbados
Basutoland
Fiji Gambia Gibraltar
Gilbert Island
Gold Coast
Bechuanaland Protectorate Grenada
India
Jamaica
British Central Africa Pro- Johore (Malay States)
Kedah (Malay States)
Labuan
Lagos Malta Mauritius
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Nyasaland
Orange Free State
Panama (British Agency) Penrhyn Island
Rhodesia(Northern and Southern)
St. Helena
St. Kitts
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Salonica (British Army Post
Office)
Sarawak
Savage Island Seychelles
Canada (at certain offices only) Mesopotamia (Indian Field Sierra Leone
Post Offices)
Montserrat
Bermuda
British Bechuanaland
tectorate
British East Africa
British Guiana
British Honduras
British North Borneo
Cape of Good Hope
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Chatham Islands
Natal
Egypt
Ellice Islands
Nevis
Newfoundland
Falkland Islands
New Zealand
Southern)
Cook Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
Morocco (British Agencies at Casablanca, Fez, Larache, Mazagan, Mogador, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan)
Solomon Islands Protectorate Somaliland Protectorate Straits Settlements
Swaziland
Tobago
Transvaal
Trinidad
Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda
United Kingdom
Fanning Islands
Federated Malay States
Nigeria (Northern and Virgin Islands
Zanzibar
If
232.-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.
233.-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.