HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
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212.-Broken amounts may be made up by the use of Hong Kong postage stamps not exceeding 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 siamps cannot be accepted for this purpose.
213.--The office issuing any Postal Note shall fill in the name of the place where it is payable. The purchaser may, before parting with the order, fill in the name of the Payee.
214.-Every person to whom a Postal Note is issued should retain the counterfoil bearing the number, date and name of office of issue, to facilitate enquiry if the Note should be lost, and should register the letter in which it is torwarded.
215.-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.
216.-After a Postal Note has once been paid, to whomsoever it is paid, the (iovernment will not be liable for any further claim.
217.-If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Note is cut, defaced or mutilated, payment may be refused.
218.-Any officer in charge of a Post Office may delay or refuse the pay- ment of a Postal Note, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster General.
219.-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.
220.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster General to suspend anny time the issue of Local Postal Notes.
Imperial Postal Orders.
221-Postal Orders of the value -/6, 1/-, 1/6, 2/6, 5/-, 10/-, 10/6, 20/- may be purchased at Hong Kong or the British Post Office Agency at Wei Hai Wei at prices which include commission and vary with the rate of exchange, payable within three months at any Post Office in the following British posses- sions:
Aden
¡British Central African Cape of Good Hope
Protectorate (Nyasaland) Cayman Islands British East Africa | Ceylon
(Kenya)
British Guiana
Andaman Islands
Anguilla
Antigua
Chatham Islands
Ascension
Cook Islands
Bahamas
British Honduras
Cyprus
Barbados
British North Borneo
Dominica
Basutoland
British Somaliland
Egypt (including
the
Bechuanaland Protectorate Brunei
Sudan)
Bermuda
Canada (at certain offices Ellice Islands
British Bechuanaland
only)
Falkland Islands