Directory_and_Chronicle_1898 — Page 38

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.

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Mail Time Tables Forbidden Articles infequests It'ouplaints

16-20 Letters 27-28 | Newspapers

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Post Cards

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68-71

Registration

98-104

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Books

72-77

Miscellaneous

105-107

31-43 | Commercial Papers.. 78.81

Parcel Post..

108-119

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Kap-ul Postage

10-15

7-9 |Private Boxes

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Patterns 47-51 Prices Current > 52-56 and Cirvalars).

82-88

Money Orders

120-123

Postal Notes

124-138

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OFFICES.

1.-The Head Office for British Postal business in China is at Hongkong; there is a Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places : Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo and Hankow.

BUSINESS HOURS,

-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on Week days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.n. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m. In the event of a contract mail arriving after the ordinary business hours, the office is opened for the delivery of correspondence as soon as possible after the mails have been landed, and will be kept open for one hour.

HOLIDAYS,

3.-Sundays and all Public and Government Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a eontract mail happens to be fixed for a Public or Government Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mail.

DELIVERIES.

4-The following are the hours at which delivery of correspondence takes place from the General Post Office :-

In Town, 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.n., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.

In the Suburbs, 9 a.m., noon, 5 p.m.

At Kowloon and the Peak, noon, 4 p.m.

On Sundays and Holidays deliveries are effected at 9 a.m. in the town and suburbs. There is also one delivery at Kowloon and the Peak in the morning.

Contract mails are, however, delivered as soon as possible after arrival. The onlinary deliveries may be retarded by the contract mails.

The last delivery of Registered Correspondence is at 4 p.m.

There are no deliveries on Chinese New Year's day.

To Shipping.

5-As a general rule correspondence for shipping in harbour is delivered to the agents, but if desired it will be delivered on board at noon and 4 p.m.

PILLAR BOXES.

6-Pillar Letter Boxes have been placed at the following localities and are cleared daily at the following hours, except on Sundays and Holidays:-

Town District.

From Ship Street to Bonham Strand West and up to level of Robinson Road. Clearances: 8.30 a.m., 10.30 a.in., 0.30 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m.

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Victoria, junction of Queen's Road East and Arsenal Street. Victoria, near the Harbour Master's Office.

Victoria, junction of Albany, Robinson and Garden Roads. Victoria, junction of Seymour and Castle Roads. Victoria, junction of Old Bailey and Caine Road.

Suburban Districts.

Clearances: 9.30 a.m., 0.30 p.m., 5.30 p.m.

Victoria, junction of Robinson and Bonham Roads.

Victoria, East Point, junction of Percival Street and Praya.

West Point, near No. 7 Police Station.

Kowloon and Peak District.

Clearances : noon and 4 p.m.

Kowloon, near Wharf and Godowns.

Magazine Gap, at the Gap.

Peak District, at Victoria Gap.

Peak District, at Mount Kellett, near "Myrtlebank.”

Peak District, at Junction of Mount Gough Road with road

to Aberdeen West of Government Villas.

6............Peak District, at Plantation Road, at junction of roads

between Rural Building Lots 14 and 27.

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