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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

155.-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

Bermuda

→ Bolivia

* Bosnia

• Brazil

* British East Africa Pro- tectorate (including 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 s 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 (San

Domingo)

* Ecuador

Falkland Islands

Fiji Islands

* France

French Colonies; viz.— Martinique, Guadeloupe and dependencies, FrenchGuiana(Cayenne), Senegal and dependen cies, Ahgwey, Gaboon, Grand Bassani, 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, Saffi, Mazagan, and Mogador)

* Gold Coast

* Greece

* Honduras (Republic of)

Hongkong & its Agencies

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

Italy Jamaica

• Japan Labuan

Lagos

* Liberia

Luxemberg

* Madeira

Malta

Marquesas Islands

* Mauritius and its depen-

dencies

* 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 Bancá, 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).

Grenada and the Grena-

dines

•

Nicaragua

* Norway

* Guatemala

*

* Hayti

Herzegovina

• Patagonia * Peru * Portugal

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* Portuguese Colonies ;”viz. -Goa and its dependen cies (Damoa and Diu), Macao, Timor, Cape Verd Islands and 'de. pendencies (Bissau 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

Rhodesia (Southern)

* Roumania

* Russia

St. Helena

* St. Kitts

* St. Lucia

* St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

St. Vincent, West Indies * Salvador

* Sarawak

* Servia

+

Seychelles

* Siam

Sierra Leone

+ South Australia

* Spain (including Balea- ric and Canary Islands)

* Spanish Colonies; viz.— Fernando Po, Annobon and dependencies

* Straits Settlements * Sweden

* Switzerland

* Tahiti

† Tasmania * Tobago

Transvaal

* Trinidad

* Turkey

* Turk's Islands

* United States

* United States Colonies, viz.- Cuba, Hawaiian (or Sandwich) Islands, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands and Guam (Marian Islands).

* Uruguay

* Venezuela

* Egypt

* Orange River Colony Panania Republio

* Paraguay

↑ Victoria

* Virgin Islands

+ Western Australia

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 United States. + In sonie 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, Macloutsie Machudi, Mahapapye Siding, Molepolofe, Palachwe (Khamastown), Ramonlsa Shosong, and Tati River.

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