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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

Foreign Countries.

France, with Algeria

German Empire

German East African Protectorate

German South Western African Protec-

torate

Herzegovina

Holland

Hungary

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New Guinea (German Protectorate of)

and Norway

Portugal (including Madeira & the Azores) Roumania Salvador Servia Sweden Switzerland

Transvaal

Iceland

Italy, with offices on the Red Sea and

Luxemburg

at Tripoly

Adrianople

Beyrout

Constantinople

Tunis Uraguay

Foreign Cities and Towns,

Salonica

Symrna

Tangier

Panama

Asia Minor and Levant.

Candia

Lagos (Turkey)

Canea (Khania La Canée) Chios (Khios)

Mitylene

Dardanelles

Dédé-Agatch (Dédé-Aghadj)

Durazzo

Galeppoli

Ineboli

Jaffa

Janina

Kavala (Cavalla)

Kerassonde (Kéressoun)

Prevesa

Jerusalem

Kaifa (Caiffa)

Retimo

Rhodes

Samsoun

Santi Quaranta (Serandoz) Trebizond (Trapezunt) Valona Vathy-Samos

IMPERIAL Postal OrderS.

255.-Imperial Postal Orders of the values named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in the United Kingdom, or at Constantinople, can be obtained at the General Post Office, Hongkong, or at any of the British Postal Agencies in China, at prices which include commission and which vary with the rate of exchange, viz. :—

1/-, 1/6, 5/-, 10/-, 20/-.

The prices are published from time to time in the Government Gazette and can be obtained on application.

256.-The purchaser of any Postal Order must fill in the payee's name before parting with it. He may also fill in the name of the office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or at Constantinople.

257.-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case only be made through a Banker.

payment will

If this

If this precau-

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

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

260.-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.

261.---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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