HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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152.-If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Order is cut, defaced or mutilated, payment may be refused.
153.-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.
154. 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 commision, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 155.-It shall be withinthe discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Orders.
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156.-LIST OF COUNTRIES WHICH, IN ADDITION TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, ARE COMPRISED IN THE POSTAL UNION.
Aut qua
Argentine Republic
ASCERS
• Austria-Hungary
Azores
Bakermits
Barbudos
Bechreumaland Protectorate
Belgium Berunda
• Bolivia
• Bownia
• Brazil
* British East Afrien Pro-
terturute
Uganda)
* Brits Gaiova
(including
* Batik Honduras
Britisk Nor Guineu By Lah North Berwco British Prole torate of
Somali
Britah Southern Nigeria
• Bulgaria
Cameroons
• Canada › Dominion of“) Cap Cong (including
Basutoland, British Be chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri- qualand West, Little Samaqualand, St. John & River Territory, Trans- kei, Tembubnd, and Walfisch Bay) Cozman Islands Ceylon
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)
• Dominicu
• Dominican Republic (San
Domingo)
Ecuador
Egypt
Palkland Islands
Fiji Islands
* France
* French Colonies; viz.-
Martinique, Guadeloupe
and
dependencies,
FrenchGuiana(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 Yanaon) Annam, Cam- bodia, Tonkin, and in C'o- chin China, French Esta blishments in Morocco, viz.-Casablanca, Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez Lar- aiche, Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Saff, and Tangier, and Society Islands.
Gambia Germany
EI-
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)
* Gold Coast
* Greece
Grenada and the Grena-
dines
* Guatemala
* Hayti
• Herzegovina
•
Honduras (Republic of) Hongkong & ita Agencies
* India (including the In- dian Post Office Esta- blishments in the Per- sian Gulf)
•
Italy Jamaica
* Japan
Labuan Logos
• Liberia
Luxemberg
• Madeira Malla
* Marquesas Islands
* Mauritius and its depen-
dencies
Mexico
Montenegro Montserrat
Natul (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, Sabn, 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 Tin:or), the Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North-west part of New Guinea (Papua)
• Neris Newfoundland
New South Wales New Zealand (including Cook or Hervey Islands and the islands of Pal- merston (Avarua), Sa- vage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger), Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki and Penrhyn (Tongar- eva).
* Nicaragua * Norway
* Orange River Colony * Parrguay
* Patagonia
• Persia
• Pern
Portugal
* Portuguese Colonies; viz. -Goa and its dependen- cies (Damon and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Islands and de- pendencies (Bissan and Cachen), Cabenda, 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
Rhodesin (Southern) Roumania
• Russia
St. Helena
* St. Kitts
* St. Lucia
• St. Pierre-et-Miquelon St. Vincent, West Indies * Salvador
• Sarawak
• Servia
•
S
Seychelles
Siam
Sierra Leone
+ South Australia
•
Spain (including Balea- ric and Canary Island) * Spanish Colonics ; viz.— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies
* Straits Settlements
• Sweden Switzerland
• Tahiti + Turmania
• Tobago Transroul
* Trinidad
• Turkey
* Turk's Islanda
United States United States Colonies, viz.- Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine
and Guatta Islands (Marian Islands).
* Uruguay
• Venezuela
+ Victoria
• Virgin Islands
↑ Western Australia
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• The transmission by Letter Post of coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., is prohibited in those countries marked thus." Uncut diamonds may, Eowever, he 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, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolėle, l'alachwe (Khamastown), Ramoulsa Shosong, and Tati River.
NOTE-The names of British Colonies and Possessions are printed it italics,
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