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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

148.-If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Order is cut, defaced or mutilated, payment may be refused.

149. Any officer in charge of a Post Office may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal Order, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.

150. After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue a Postal Order 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. 151.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Order.

152.—LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH, IN ADDITION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION.

* Aden

*

Antigua

*

Argentine Republic

Ascension

↑ Australia

* Austria-Hungary

* Azores

* Bahamas

* Barbados

* Belgium

Bermuda

* Bolivia * Bosnia

* Brazil

British North Borneo British East Africa

* British Guiana * British Honduras

British New Guinea * Bulgaria

Cape Colony (including Basutoland, British Be chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri qualand West, Nama- qualand (Little), John's River Territory, Transkel, Tembuland, Walwich Bay)

Cameroons

* Canuda (Dominion of) * Ceylon

Chili

* Columbia, Republic of

*

St.

Congo, including Black

Point,

Nyanza

Costa Rica

Cuba

* Cyprus

Majumiba and

* Danish Colonies; viz.— Greenland, St. Croiz, St. John, and St. Thomas

* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)

* Dominicu

* Dominican Republic (San

Domingo)

* Ecuador

* Egypt

Falkland Islands, Fiji Islands

* France

* French Colonies; viz.— Martinique, Guade- loupe and dependen. cies, French Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependencies. Ahgwey,

Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Wydah (also Sette Cama and Assinie) Comoro

Reunion, Islands,

Mayotte and depen- dencies, Madagascar, New Caledonia and dependencies, the

French portion of the Low Archipelago, and the French Esta. blishments in India, Pondichery, Chan- dernagor, Karikal, Mahé, and (Yanoan), Annami, Cambodge, Tonkin, and in Cochin China, French Estab- lishments in Morocco, viz.-Casabianca, Ej. Ksar-el-Khir

Fez

Laraiche, Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and

Society Islands

Gambia

Gerniany

German Colonies; viz. -Marshall Islands, New Guinea (portion of), Samoa (Apia), Togo Tertitory, in- cluding Bageida,

Little Popo, Lonie, and Porto Seguro, and territory in South West Africa, viz.. Grand Namaqua, the Damaras Country.

and Southern portion of Chambo, also_Baga- moyo, and Dar-es- Salaam, Lindi Tanga in East Africa and Marian Islands

Gibraltar

the

Offices

(including British Post at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez Laraiche. Casabianca, Mazagan, and

Rabat

Saffi, Mogador)

* Gold Conut

* Greece

Grenada

Grenadines

* Guatemala

* Hawaiian (or Sandwich)

*

*

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Islands Hayti Herzegovina

Honduras (Republic of)

Hongkong

* India

* Italy

* Jamaica

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Japan

Labuan Lagon

* Liberia

Luxemberg

* Madeira Malta

* Marquesas Islands

* Mauritius and dependen-

eier

* Mexico

•

Montenegro

Montserrat

Natal (including Zulu-

land

• Netherlands

* Netherlands Colonies, viz.-Dutch Guiana (Su- rinam), Curacoa and dependencies, viz.—Bo- naire, Araba, the Ne- therlands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Saba, Java, Madura, Sunnatra, Celebes, Bor- neo (except North-west part), Billiton, Archi- pelago of Banca, Archi- pelago of Riouw, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Floris, and the south-west part of Timor), the Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the north-west part of New Guinea (Papua)

* Necia

Newfoundland New Zealand

* Nicaragua

* Norway

* Orange Free State

* Paraguay Patagonia

* Persia

• Peru

Philippine Islands

* Porto Rico * Portugal

* PortugueseColonies, viz. Goa and its dependen- cies (Damoa and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Islands and de- pendencies (Bissau and Cachen), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussera and Is- lands of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Dela- goa Bay, and Mozam- bique

* Roumania

• Russia

St. Helena

* St. Kitta

* St, Lucia

* St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

St. Vincent, West Indies * Salvador

* Sandwich (or Hawaiian)

Islands

* Sarawak

• Servia

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Seychellen

Siam

Sierra Leone

South African Republic

(Transvaal)

Spain (including Balean- ric and Canary Islands) Spanish Colonies; viz.-

Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies Straits Settlements

* Sweden * Switzerland

* Tahiti

• Tobago * Tortola

• Trinidad

* Turkey

* Turk's Islands

* United States

* Uruguay

* Venezuela

Zanzibar

* The transmission by Letter Post of coin, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries

marked thus.

In some of the Australian Colonies gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties. NOTE.—The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics,

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