HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.
PARS.
PARS.
PABS.
PAES.
Officeo ..
1 Mail Routes..
17.27
Letters
58-68
Post Cards
100-104
Business hours
2
Mail Time Tables
28-29
Newspapers
70-73
Registration
105-114
Holidays
3
Forbidden Articles... 30-31
Books
74-81
Miscellaneous
115-117
Deliveries
4-6
KEY UUS LA
32-44
Commercial Papers.. 82-86
Parcel Post
118-152
Pillar Boxes
Complaints
45-47
Lutterus
87-95
Money Orders.
153-156
Postage Stamps
8.10
Private BoXES
48-52
Prices Current /
Postal Notes
157-171
96-99
Rates of Postage 11-16
Poste Restante
53-57 and Circulars)
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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. There are also branch offices at Praya West and Kowloon.
BUSINESS HOURS.
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on ordinary days from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. 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.
3.-The branch offices are open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on ordinary days, and from 8 to 9 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays.
HOLIDAYS.
4.-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 contract 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.
5.-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.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.
In the Eastern Suburb (Ship Street to Causeway Bay Road) 9 a.m.,
noon, 5 p.m.
At the Peak, noon, 4 p.m.
In the Western Suburb (from No. 5 Police Station to Kennedy Town) and at Kow- loun at the same hours as from the General Post Office.
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 ordinary 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.
6.—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.
7.-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 No. 5 Police Station and up to level of Robinson Road.
Clearances : 8.30 a.m., 10.30 a.ın., 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, junction of Albany, Robinson and Garden Roads. Victoria, junction of Seymour and Castle Roads. Victoria, junction of Old Bailey and Caine Road.
Western Suburb.
8.30 a.m., 10.30 p.m., 0.30 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m. Victoria, near the Harbour Master's Office.
Victoria, junction of Robinson and Bonham Roads. West Point, near No. 7 Police Station.
Eastern Suburb.
Clearances: 9.30 a.m., 0.30 p.m., 5.30 p.m.
..Victoria, East Point, junction of Percival Street and Praya.
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