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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

148. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Order is cut, defaced of 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

† Australin

* Austria-Hungary

* Azores

* Bahamas

* Barbados

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Belgium Bermuda

* Bolivia

* Bosnia

* Brazil

British North Borneo

British East Africa Pro-

tectorate

* British Guiana

* British Honduras

*

British New Guinea Bulgaria

Cape Colony (including

Basutoland, British Be chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri- qualand West, Nama- qualand (Little),

St.

John's River Territory, Transkei, Tembuland, Walfisch Bay)

Cameroons

* Canada (Dominion of)

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Ceylon Chili

*Columbia, Republic of

Congo, including Black Point, Majuuiba and Nyanza

* Corea

Costa Rica * Cyprus

viz.

* Danish Colonies;

Greenland, St. Croiz, St. John, and St. Thomas

* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)

• Dominica

* Dominican Republic (San

Domingo)

* Ecuador

* Egypt

Falkland Islands, Fiji Islands

* France

* French Colonies; viz.— Martinique, Guadeloupe and dependencies, Fren- ch Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependen- cies, Ahgwey, Gaboon,

Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Wydah (also Sette Cama and Assinie) Réu- nion, Comoro Islands, Mayotte and dependen- cies, Madagascar, New Caledonia and dependen- cies, the French portion of the Low Archipelago, and the French Esta. blishments in India, Pon- dichery, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanon), Annam, Cam- bodge, Tonkin, and in Cochin China, French Establishments in Mor- occo, viz. ·Casablanca, El-Ksar-el-Khir Fez Lar- aiche, Mazagan,Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, Society Islands, and St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

Gambia

Germany German Colonies; viz. Caroline Islands, Marian Islands (except Guam), Pelao Islands, Marshall Islands, New Guinea(por- tion of), Samoa (Apia), Togo Territory, includ- ing Bageida, Little Popo, Lome, and Porto Seguro, and territory in South West Africa, viz., Grand Namaqua, the Damaras Country, and Southern portion of Ovambo; also Bagamoyo, and Dar-es- Salaam, Lindi and Tanga in East Africa. German Establishments in Mor- occo: viz., Casablanca, Laraiche, Mazagan, Mo- gador, Rabat, Saffi and Tangier.

Gibraltar (including the

British Post Offices at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez Laraiche, Rabat Casa. blanca, Satti, Mazagan, and Mogador)

* Gold Coust

* Greece

Grenada

Grenadines

* Guatemala

* Hayti

• Herzegovina

* Hondūras (Republic of)

Hongkong

* India * Italy

• Jamaica

• Japan

Labuan Lagos

* Liberia

Luxemberg

* Madeira

•

Multa

Marquesas Islands

• Mauritius and dependen-

eies

• 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, Sumatra, 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 Archipelaga of the Moluccas, and the north-west part of New Guinea (Papa)

* Nevis

Newfoundland New Zealand

*

Nicaragua

* Norway

Orange River Colony * Paraguay

• Patagonia

* Persia * Peru * Portugal

* Portuguese Colonies, viz. -Gon and its dependen- cies (Damoa and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape- Verd Islands and de- pendencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussera and Is- lands of St. ThomGO. and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishments. of Ajuria, Angola, Dela- goa Day, and Mozam- bique

* Roumania

• Russia

St. Helena

* St. Kitts

* St. Lucia

St. Vincent.. West Indies

• Salvador

• Sarawak

* Servia

* Seycheller

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Siam

Sierra Leone

* Spain (including Balean- ric and Canary Islands) * Spanish Colonies; viz.— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies Straits Settlements * Sweden * Switzerland

* Tahiti * Tobago * Tortola

Transvaal

* Trinidad

* Turkey * Turk's Islands

* United States

• United

States Colonies, viz. Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guam (Marian Islands). * Uruguay

* Venezuela

* Virgin Islands

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 Colonics gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties. NOTE.—The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italica.