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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 Borneo British Somaliland
Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)
Algeria
Austria
Azores
Belgium
Bosnia Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Cape Verde Island
Chile
China (including Pro
vince of Yunnan)
China (British
United Kingdom and British Possessions
Cyprus (via Egypt) Egypt
Falkland Islands (as far as Stanley only) (via London)
Gambia (vía London) Gibraltar
Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London)
India
Denmark
Ivory Coast Jamaica
Leeward Islands (via
London) Malay States Ma ta Mauritius
Newfoundland (ondon) New Zealand vilondon) Nigeria (via London) Nyasaland Protectɔrate Sarawak Seychelles
Foreign Countries
Dutch East Indies
Dutch Guiana
Dutch West Indies
Ecuador
Erithrea
Faroe Islands
France
Formosa
French Guiana
Post
French Guinea
French Indo-China
China (Japanese Post
Offices)
Offices)
Corea (via Japan)
Corsica
Dahomey
French West Indies Germany
Greece
Holland Iceland
Ivory Coast
§ Italy Japan Karafuto Liberia
Libya
Luxemburg
Macao
Madagascar
Madeira
Manchuria (Japanese Post
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
Réunion
Roumania Russia (in Asia) Senegal
Servia
Siam Sweden
Switzerland (via France
Timor
Tripoli
Tunis
‡ Turkey
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 ... (b) By the trans-Siberian route
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For each £12 (fr. 380 or $120) of insured value or fraction thereof.
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$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 Holland
France Germany
Luxemburg Norway
Portugal Sweden Switzerland
* No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery.
+ Insurance confined to parcels 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, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.
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