HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
PARS.
PARS.
PARS.
'Offices..
1
Patterns
67-75
Foreign Postage Rates
156
Business Hours
2-3
Post Cards
76-80
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Holidays
4
Local Parcel Post
81-89
Letters
157
Division of Postal Districts.
5
Registration and Compensa
Letters for Russia
158
Deliveries
6-7
tion
90-101
Exceptional Conditions
159
Pillar Boxes
8-10
Articles not allowed to be
Letters, etc., irregularly
Private Boxes
11-15
sent by post
102-103
marked with value
160
Private Boxes between Hong-
Redirection and Interception 104-111
Post Cards
161-163
kong and Canton
10-18
Poste Restante
112-116
Printed and Commercial
Postage Stamps, etc., Rules
Undelivered Correspondence 117-121
Papers
164-174
relating to Posting....
19-21
Articles of value
122
Patterns and Samples
175-182
Despatch..
22-30
Certificate of Posting
123
Prohibited Articles
183-184
Local Postage Rates
31
Miscellaneous..
124-131
Registration
185-195
Letters
32-40
Local Money Orders and
Insurance of letters
190
Printed Matter-Newspapers
41-43
Postal Rates
132-143
Foreign Parcels Post
197-240
Book Packets
44-52
Postal Notes
144-154
Foreign Money Orders
241-249
Commercial Papers
53-59
Countries comprised in Pos-
Imperial Postal Orders
250-255
Prices Current Circulars
60-66
tal Union..
155
General
250
OFFICES.
1.--The Head Office for British Postal business in China is in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch office at Kowloon. There is a Post Office also at Shanghai, and Agencies at the following places, viz :-
Canton, Hoihow, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Hankow, Liu Kung-tau and Chefoo.
BUSINESS HOURS.
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on week days from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m. In the event of a contract mail arriving after the ordinary business hours, the office is opened for the delivery of correspondence as soon as possible after the mails have been landed and sorted, and will be kept open for one hour thereafter.
3.--The Branch Office is open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.in. on ordinary days, and from 8 to 9 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays.
HOLIDAYS.
4. Sundays and all Public and Government Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a Public or Government Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mails.
DIVISION OF POSTAL DISTRICTS.
5.-The City of Victoria will be divided as follows:-
(i.) West side of Pedder Street, Praya Central from Pedder Street to Wing Shing Street. All streets and lanes running from Praya to Queen's Roads.
(ii.) East side of Pedder Street, Des Voeux Road from Pedder Street to City Hall, Streets from Des Voeux Road to Queen's Road, Praya Reclam- ation from Queen's Buildings to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's Offices and Victoria Recreation Club.
(iii) Queen's Road Central from Pedder Street and Wyndham Street to
No. 5 Police Station,
(iv.) Queen's Road Central from Pedder Street and Wyndham Street to City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade, Zetland Street, Duddell Street and Ice House Street.
(v.) Queen's Road from City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade to Ship Street, Head Quarter House, Arsenal Street and Praya East from Arsenal Street to Ship Street.
(vi) Wyndham Street (east side) to Dairy Farm Office, College Gardens, St. Paul's College, Pedder's Hill, Government House, Government Offices Garden Road, Kennedy Road and Macdonnell Road.
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