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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES,

158. - The Rate of Postage to be prepaid in Hongkong and at the several British Postal Agencies in China on letters for all Foreign countries and other British possessions- is as follows:--

TO

LETTERS

:

FER ¦ OZ.'

SINGLE KEILT

POST

POST CARDS, CARDS, EACH. EACHL

BOOKS

NEWSP'S PER 2 oz.

REGIS-

TRATION,

RETURN

RECEIPT FOR

REGISTERED

ARTICLE.

coute.

centa.

S

rut

2 $

crats, 10

10

UNION COUNTRIES (except as below).

United Kingdom.

+

Aden, Ascension. Bahamns,

Barbados,

Bermudas, British Central Africa Protec- torate, British East Africa Protectorate, British Guiana, British Honduras. British North Borneo, Canada, Cape Colony, Cayman Island, Ceylon, Cyprus, Falk- land Islands, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast Colony, India, (including Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, Pondicherry, Yanan), Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Islands, viz. :-- Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat. Nevis, St. Christopher, Virgin Islands, Malay States (Federated), viz.: Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Newfoundland, New Zealand, including Cook or Hervey Island, Palmerston (Avarna), Savage (Niue), Pakapuka (Danger) Raknanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki. and Penrhyn (Tongareva) Islands, Nigeria (Northern), including Borgu, Idda and Lakoja Nigeria (Southern), including Akassa, As-aba Benin, Bonny, Brass, Burutu, Calabar, Forcados, Onitsha, Opobo, and Warree,Orange River Colony,St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaal. Trinidad, Turk's Island, Uganda, Windl- ward Islands, viz.:- Grenadines, the, St.Grenada, Lucia, St. Vincent Zanzibar / Hongkong and British Post Offices at { Shanghai, Ningpo, Hankow, Liu Kung Tau, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Hoihow, Canton, and Chefoo (between Hongkong and Canton the rate for Letters is 2 cents per } oz.).

Macao, (from Hongkong and Canton).

Do., (from all other British Post Offices in China..

Nox-UNION COUNTRIES:

Abyssinia, (the delivery of registered art- icles for Abyssinia can be effected only

the Restante at They j

should be addressed ** rid Jibouti",).... Afghanistan

Arabia

China,

Do., Foreign (non-British) Establishments,

(Friendly Islands Tonga Islands), Morocco (except Casablanca, El-kar-el- kbir, Fez, Láraiche, Marrakesch. Maza- gon, Mogador, Rabat, Suff, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of which places the Gibraltar Post Office French Post Office or German Post Office maintains an Agency under the Postal Union Regulations),

crate, ! 10

10 °c)

10 (ca)

10 (6)

+

10

30 (c)

Navigator's Island, (Samon Island), Rhodesia, (N.E. and N.W.), including

Northern Zambesia.

10

Solomon Island,

Other parts,

10)

4

Local Delivery,

1

ob

61

~

م

30 30 22 30 30

00

GI

10 10 10 10 N

ลง

اگر کیا

ล

(* 19

10

10

n

10

None

Having

10 (6)

10

10

none

10

10 in)

10

10

10

10

-

COMMER-

PATTERNS PAPERS,

AND

SAMPLES.

Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents,

Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 4 cents.

les!

10

10

:

ㄧ

10

*

(a). An additional chorge is made on delivery.

(b) Registration in China through British Öffices extends to Hoihow, Carton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpe, Shanghai, Hankow, Lin Kung Tan, and Chefoo only.

(c) Prepayment is compulsory,

(6) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival.

§ Single Newspapers to the following British Possessions and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 ounces or fraction thereof, viz.:

Australia Ceylon

China

Corea

+

Formosa India

•

Japan Macao

Netherlands Tudia New Zealand

Philippines

Siam

Straits Settlements. Timor

For Chinese Postal Hong packets the rute to and from Canton and to Marzio is Counts per

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