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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

Australia

* Austria-Hungary

• Azores

* Bahamas

• Barbados

Bechuanaland Protectorate (including Kanye, Lake Ngami, Maclontsie, Molepolole, Palachwe,

Khamastown, Shosong, and Tati River.)

* Belgium

Bermuda

• Bolivia

• Boenia

• Brazil

British East Africa Pro- tectorate (including Uganda)

• British Guiana

• British Honduras

+

British New Guinea

British North Borneo Bulgaria

Cameroons

• Canada (Dominion of) 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)

Cayman Islands

* Ceylon

• Chili

Columbia, Republic of Congo, including Black Point, Majumba and Nyanza

* Corea

Costa Rica

+

Сургия

• Danish Colonies; viz.

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

* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)

* Dominica

* Dominican Republic (San

Domingo)

* Ecuador

• France

• French Colonies ; viz.—

Martinique, Guadeloupe and dependencies, Fren- ch Guiana (Cayenne), Senegal and dependen. cles, Ahgwey, Gaboon, Grand Bassam, Half Jack and Wydah (also Sette Çama 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 Yanoan), Annam, Cam. bodge, Tonkin, and in Cochin China, French Establishments in Mor. occo, viz. - Casablanca, El-Ksar el-Kbir 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, Marrakesch, Mazagan, Mogador, Ra- bat, Saffi and Tangier,

Gibraltar (including the British Post Offices at Tangier, Tetuan, Fez Laraiche. Rabat Casa- blanca, Saffi, Mazagan, and Mogador)

•

Egypt

Falkland Islands,

Fiji Islands

* Gold Count

* Greece

Grenada

Grenadines

* Guatemala

* Hayti

• Herzegovina

Honduras (Republic of) Hongkong & its Agencies,

• India (including_the_In. dian P. O,'s in the Per- sian Gulf).

• Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Labuan Lagos

Liberia Luxemberg

Madeira Malta

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, Aruba, the Ne- therlands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Saba, Java, Madura, Sumatra, Celches, Bor. neo (except North-west part), Billiton, Archi- pelago of Banca, Archi- pelago of Riouw, Sunda İslands (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)

• Neria Newfoundland New Zealand

• Nicaragua

• Norway

• Orange River Colony

• Paraguay

• Patagonia

• Persia

• Peru

* Portugal

•

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

Rhodesia (Southern) in- cluding Mashonaland

and Matabeleland.

• Roumania

• Russia

St. Helena

• St. Kitts

* St. Lucia

St. Vincent.. West Indies

• Salvador

• Sarawak

Servia Seychelles

- Siam

Sierra Leone

Spain (including Balea- rie and Canary Islands) * Spanish Colonies; viz.— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies Straits Settlements

• Sweden * Switzerland

• Tahiti

• Tobago

• Tortula Transcual

• Trinidad

• Turkey

• Turk's Islands

• United States

• United States Colonies, viz. - Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and

(Marian Islands). Uruguay

Venezuela

• Virgin Islands Zanzibar

Quam

• 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 transmissible, or is subject to Customs duties. Nork. The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics,

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