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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
230. Any officer in charge of a PostOffice may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal Note but he inust at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.
231.-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. 232.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Notes.
Imperial Postal Orders
233.-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)
Nyasaland
Orange Free State Panama (British Agency) Penrhyn Island
Rhodesia(Northern and Southern) St. Helena
St. Kitts
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Bermuda
British Bechuanaland
tectorate
British East Africa
British Guiana
Kedah (Malay States)
Labuan
Lagos
British Honduras
British North Borneo
Cape of Good Hope
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Chatham Islands
Cyprus
Malta Mauritius
Salonica (British Army Post
Office)
Sarawak
Savage Island Seychelles
Canada (at certain offices only) Mesopotamia (Indian Field Sierra Leone
Post Offices)
Montserrat
Morocco (British Agencies at Casablanca, Fez, Larache, Mazagan, Mogador, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan)
Solomon Islands Protectorate Somaliland Protectorate Straits Settlements
Swaziland
Tobago
Transvaal
Natal
Nevis
Ellice Islands
Newfoundland
New Zealand
Southern)
Cook Islands
Dominica
Egypt
Falkland Islands
Fanning Islands
Federated Malay States
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Trinidad
Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda
United Kingdom
Nigeria (Northern and Virgin Islands
Zanzibar
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.
If this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or in the countries named above.
235.-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.
236.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precaution is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss of any such order.
237.-Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom and above places are payable in Hongkong and at any of the British Post Office Agencies in China. Stamps affixed to orders to make up odd amounts should be left clean and not defaced in any way whatever. Hongkong stamps may be used for this purpose not exceeding 5d. or three in number. The equivalents of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 pence for this purpose are taken as 4, 8, 12, 16 and 20 cents.
238.-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 Post Office Agencies in China.
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