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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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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 commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 155.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Orders.

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

• Aden

• Antigua Argentine Republic Ascension

• Austria-Hungary

Azores

• Bahamas

* Barbados

§ Bechuanaland Protectorate]

* Belgium

Bermudu

• Bolivia

• Bosnia

• Brazil

(including

* British East Africa Pro-

tectorate Uganda)

* British Guiana

* British Honduras

British New Guinea British North Borneo British Protectorate of

Somali

British Southern Nigeria

·

Bulgaria

Cameroons

Canada (Dominion of) Cape Colony (including

Basutoland, British Be chuanaland, Pondoland, Griqualand East, Gri qualand West, Little Namaqualand,St.John 8 River Territory, Trans- kei, Tembuland, and Walfisch Bay)

• Cayman 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)

• Dominica

* Dominican Republic (8an

Domingo)

• Ecuador

•

Egypt

Falkland 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- dichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé, and Yanaon) Annam, Cam- bodia, Tonkin, and in Co. chin China, French Esta- blishments in Morocco, viz.—Casablanca, Ksar-el-Kbir, Fez Lar- aiche, Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, and Tangier, and Society Islands.

Gambia Gerniany

El-

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, Saff, Mazagan, and Mogador)

* Gold Coust

* Greece

Grenada and the Grena-

dines

* Guatemala

* Herzegovina

India (including the In- dian Post Office Esta- blishments in the Per- sian Gulf)

* Italy

•

Jamaica Japan

Давнан Lagos

* Liberia

Luxemberg

• Madeira Malta

* Marquesas Islands

* Mauritius and its depen-

dencier

• 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, 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 Timor), the Archipelago of the Moluccas, and the North-west part of New Guinea (Papua)

* Necis

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 Panama Republic

• Paraguay

* Hayti

* Honduras (Republic of)

Hongkong 4 ils Agencies

• Patagonia

• Persia

* Pernt

Portugal

* Portuguese Colonies; viz. -Goa and its dependen-

cies (Damon and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Íslands and de- pendencies (Bissau and Cacheu), Cabenda, Mu- culla, Mussern and I- lands of St. Thomas and Prince (in Africa), with the Establishment of Ajuda, Angola, Dela- goa Bay, and Mozam- bique

* Queensland

Rhodesia (Southern) Roumania

• Russia

St. Helena

* St. Kitte

* St. Incia

* St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

St. Vincent, West Indies

• Salvador

• Surowak

• Servia Seychelles

• Siam

*

Sierra Leone

South Australia

* Spain (including Balea- ric and Canary Island) Spanish Colonies; viz.–

Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies * Straits Settlements

• Sweden

* Switzerland

• Tahiti ↑ Tasmania

• Tobago Transcaal

• Trinidad Turkey

* Turk's Islands

United States

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

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

+ Victoria

Virgin Islanda

† Western Avstralia

Zanzibar

* 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 Luited States. + In some of the Australian Colonies gold and silver jewellery is not transmissable, or is subject to Customs duties. * Includ- ing Mashonaland and Matabeleland. Including Francistown Gaberones, Kanye, Lake Ngami, Lobasti, Macloutaie Machndi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolole, l'alachwe (Khamastown), Kamoulsa Shosong, and Tati River.

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

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