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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Demurrage on Parcels
175.-Any parcel remaining unclaimed for a period of twenty-one days (exclusive of Sundays and Holidays) shall be liable to a demurrage charge of 5 cents per diem for each day beyond such 21 days. The demurrage chargeable on any one parcel shall not exceed $1. The fee shall be payable in postage stamps. No demurrage shall be charged on parcels addressed to persons on board Ship.
Insurance of Parcels
176.-Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-
Aden
Ascension (via London)
Bahamas
do.
Barbados
do.
Bermuda
do
British East Africa:-
Kilindini, Mombassa Laum only(via Aden) British Guiana (via
London)
British North Bo neo British Somalilan i
Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)
Algeria
Austria
Azores
Belgium
Bosnia Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Cape Verde
land
Chile
China (including Pr vince of Yunnan)
China (British Post
Offices)
China Japanese Post
Offices)
Corea (via Japan)
Corsica
Dahomey
United Kingdom and British Possessions
Cyprus (via Egypt) Egypt
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
Ivory Coast Jamaica
Leeward Islands (via
London) Malay States Malta
Mauritius
Newfoundland (London) New Zealand (via London) Nigeria (via London) Nyasaland Protectorate Sarawak Seychelles
Foreign Countries
Denmark
Dutch East Indies
Dutch Guiar a
Dutch West Indies
Ecuador
Faroe Islands
Eithrea
Frm sa
Freh Guiana
Fran
Froch Guinea
Frech Indo-China
French West Indies Germany
Greece
Holland
Iceland
Ivory Coast
$ Italy Japau Karafuto Liberia Libya
Luxemburg
Macao
Madagascar Madeira
Manchuria (Japanese Pist
Offices)
Mauritania
Montenegro
Norway
Portugal
Portuguese East Africa
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
Portuguese India Portuguese West Africa Reunion
Roumania
Russia (in Asia)
Senegal
Servia
Siam Sweden
Switzerland (via France) Tumor Tripoli Tunis
‡ Turkey
United States
Virgin Islauds of the U.S.
177.—In addition to postage the following fees are charged for insurance of
parcels, viz.:—
Parcels transmitted.
(a) By routes other than the trans-Siberian .. (6) By the trans-Siberian route
For each £12 (fr. 300 or $120) of. insured value or fraction thereot.
$0.25 0.30
The limits of insured value are given in Appendix IV.
178.-The fee, which is for registration and insurance, must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which must be handed in with the parcel to be affixed to the certificate of posting.
The stamps must not be affixed to the parcel, A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insured parcel.
‡‡ 179.-Parcels sent by German packets may be insured to the following places :-
+
++
:
Austria Belgium Denmark
Faroe Islands and Iceland France Germany
Holland Luxemburg Norway
Portugal Sweden Switzerland
* No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery.
+ Insurance confined to purcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley and Singapore.
& No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquids. ¡ Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retino, Rhodes, Salonlca, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.
ervice suspended.