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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

249.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precau- tion is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss or alleged loss of any such order.

250.-Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom are not payable in Hongkong or at any of the British Postal Agencies in China.

251. Any regulation in force in the United Kingdom governing the issue and pay- ment of Postal Orders there should to taken to apply to the Imperial Postal Orders issued in Hongkong and at the British Postal Agencies in China.

GENERAL.

252.-As full information regarding articles that can and that cannot be sent by Post is published, under the proper heads, in the Postal Guide, no application will be entertained for the refund of the value of postage stamps on correspondence which is dis- covered, after the postage labels have been obliterated, to contain any prohibited article, or which exceeds the limit of weight, or which for any other reason cannot be for- warded and has consequently to be returned to the sender, and any loss resulting from a non-observance of the Rules by the sender of an article must be borne by him.

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