HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
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205.-Telegraph Money Orders may be sent to and received from Great Britain only. The charges in Hong Kong are as follows:--
(a) Money Order Commission at the ordinary rate for Foreign Money
Order.
(b) A charge for the Telegram of Advice at the deferred rate for tele-
grams addressed to the country of payment.
(c) A supplimentary fee of 25 cents for each order.
206.-In the Money Order Service between Hong Kong and most of the countries of the Postal Union a system for furnishing the remitters of money orders, on application at time of issue, with "Advices of Payment" has been introduced. The paying Postmaster, as soon as the orders have been paid, will send the advices direct to the remitters. The fee chargeable for such an advice for each order is 10 cents in addition to the ordinary order commission.
207.-The limit for a single money order is £40, Fres, 1,000, $100 Gold, Rs. 600, Yen 400 or $400 Mex.
208.--A foreign order remaining unpaid in Hong Kong after one year from the date of issue will be considered void and returned to the office of issue.
209.-Where not repugnant to the foregoing Rules General Regulations for the issue of the Local Orders will apply to Foreign Money Orders.
210. The following is the list of countries and places on which Money Orders are drawn:
Australian Commonwealth :
(New
South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Papua and late German New Guinea)
British India (including Burmah and the Agencies of the Indian Post Office in the Persian Gulf, Aden, Seychelles, Portuguese India, Ken- ya (British East Africa) Zanzibar and Mesopotamia) Tanganyika (late German East Africa)
British North Borneo
Canada
Ceylon (including orders on Mauritius
Egypt and Palestine)
China
Federated Malay States
Fiji (via Sydney) French Indo-China
Great Britain
Japan, (including Formosa, Corea and Karafuto and offices in Manchuria) Macao.
Netherland East Indies
New Caledonia (via Sydney) New Zealand
Zealand (including Apia in
Samoa)
Philippine Islands
Sarawak
Siam
Straits Settlements (including La- buan, Brunei, Johore, Kedah and Perlis, Kelantan, and Trengganu) Union of South Africa (Cape Colony, Transvaal, Natal, Orange Free State), Mozambique and Lorenzo Marques
United States of America (including Canal Zone, Guam, Hawaii and Porto Rico)