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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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

154. 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.

155.-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. 156.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Orders.

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

• Adea Autigna

•

Argentine Republic

Asccasion

* Austria-Hungary

+

+

* Azores

- HakamaS

Barbados

§ Bechuanaland Protectorate

+

Belgium

Beranda

+

Bolivia

Bosnia

Brazil

*

• British_East Africa Pro-

tectorule

Uganda)

British Guiana

(including

* Britisk Honduras

British Ner Guinea Britisk North Bornro * Bulgaria

CameroonS

* Canada (Dominion of")

Cape Colony (including Basutoland, British Be- chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri qualand West, Little Samaqualand,St. John's River Territory, Trans- kei, Tembuland, and Walfisch Bay)

Cayman Islunda Ceylou

Chili

Colombia, Republic of Congo, including Black

Point, Majumba and ¦ Nyanza

Corea

Costa Rica Cyprus

· Danish Colonies; viz.

Greenland, St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas

* Denmark (including Faroe Islands and Iceland)

• Dominica

* Dominican Republic (San

Domingo)

* Eruador

•

Egypt

Falkland Islands

Fiji Islands

• France

* French Colonies; viz. —

Martinique, Guadeloupe

and

dependencies,

FrenchGuiana(Cayenne), Senegal and dependen- cies, Abgwey, 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- dichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanaon) Annam, Câm- bodia, Tonkin, and in Co- chin China, French Esta- blishments in Morocco, viz.----Casablanca, EI- Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez Lar- niche, Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands."

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, mud 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, Larniche, 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)

* Gold Const

* Greece

Grenada and the Grena-

diner

* Guatemala

Hayti

• Herzegovina * Honduras (Republic of)

Hongkong & its Agencies * India (including the In- dian Post Office Esta. blishments in the Per- sian Gulf)

• Italy

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Jamaica

Japan

Labran Lagur

• Liberia Luxemberg

* Madeira -

Malta

* Marquesas Islands

* Mauritius and its depen-

dencies

• Mexico

•

Montenegro Montserrat

Natal (including Zulu-

land) Netherlands

* Netherlands

Colonies,

viz. —Dutch Guiana (Su- rinam), Curacoa und dependencies, viz.-Bo naire, Aruba, the Ne- therlands portion of St. Martin, St. Eustache, Sabu, Java, Madura, Sumatra, Celebes, Bor- neo (excep; North-west part), Billiton, Archi- pelago of Banca, Archi- pelago of Riouw, Sunda Islands (Bali, Lombok, Sunibawa, Floris, and the South-west part of Timor), the Archipelago of the Molnecas, and the North-west part of New Guines (Papua)

• Nevin Newfoundland

↑ Noe South Wales

New Zealand (including

+

Cook or Hervey Islands and the islands of Pal- merston (Avarua), Sa- vage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger), Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manabiki

and Peurbyn (Tongar- eva)). 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), C'abenda, 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

↑ Queensland

Rhodenia (Southern) Roumania

* Russia

St. Helena

• St. Kitts

* St. Lucia

* St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

St. Vincent, West Indies

• Salvador * Sarawak

• Servia Seychelles

• Siam

Sierra Leone

+ South Australia

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

• Straits Settlements

• Sweden

* Switzerlandl

• Tahiti

↑ Tasmania * Tubago

Transcual

• Trinidad

• Turkey

* Turk's Islands

* United States

• United

viz.

States Colonies,

Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine

Islands and

(Marian Islands),

Uruguay

• Ventzueta

↑ Victoria

Virgin Islands

* Western Australia

Zanzibar

Guam

* The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries marked thus. * Uncut diamonds may, however, be sent by post to Canada and the United States,

↑ In some of the Australian Colonies gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties,

Including Mashonaland and Matabeleland.

§ Including Francistown, Gaberones, Kanye, Lake Ngami, Lobasti, Macloutsie Machudi, M hapapye Siding, Molepolole, Palachwe (Khamastown), Ramoulsa Shosong, and Tati River.

Sore. The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed in italics,

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