6 General Information
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Under the Telecommunications Ordinance, no person may establish a Wireless Tele- graph Station or work any apparatus for wireless telegraph in any place in the Colony, or on board any ship within the waters of the Colony, otherwise than under and in accordance with a licence issued by the Postmaster General and containing such items, conditions and instructions as the Governor in Council shall deem desirable in the public interest.
Wireless Telegraphy includes Wireless Telephony and Television. Any person con- travening the Ordinance renders himself/herself liable to severe penalties.
TELEPHONE SERVICES
The Hong Kong Telephone Company provides the Colony's telephone requirements and inquiries concerning telephones and overseas telephone calls should be addressed to:-
The Manager,
The Hong Kong Telephone Company,
Telephone House,
14, Des Voeux Road Central,
Hong Kong.
RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS
Cable & Wireless Limited maintain overseas, marine and various other radio services and details of telegrams, charges, etc. can be obtained from:
The Manager,
Cable & Wireless Limited,
Mercury House,
Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong
POSTAL SERVICES
UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION
All countries except à few unimportant territories are included in the Universal Postal Union, the affairs of which are controlled by an International Convention. The regulations governing the letter post to places abroad are, therefore, part of an international scheme applicable to all countries alike, and have been adopted as part of the international obligations of the Hong Kong Post Office under the Convention. The parcel post service with the majority of places abroad is based on the Universal Postal Union Parcel Post Agreement but the service between the Hong Kong Post Office and non signatories to that Agreement is governed by separate agreements with the countries concerned.
GENERAL APPLICATION OF THE POSTAL REGULATIONS
The regulations apply generally to any postal packet sent between one place and another within the Colony or to a place in any other country. The classes of postal packets admitted to the post are: Letters, postcards, small packets (certain countries only), printed papers, commercial papers, samples, literature for the blind and parcels (overseas post only).