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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN Postage Rates.
156.-The Rate of Postage to be prepaid in Hongkong and at the several British Postal Agencies in China on letters for all Foreign countries and other British possessions- is as follows:-
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UNION COUNTRIES (except as below)
United Kingdom
Aden, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Bar- bados, Bermudas, British Central África Protectorate, British East Africa Protec- torate, British Guiana, British Honduras, British North Borneo, Canada, Cape Colony, Cayman Island, Ceylou, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast Colony, India, (including Chandernagore, Karikal, Mahé, Pondicherry, Yanam), Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Islands, viz.:—Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Christopher, Virgin Islands, Malay States (Federated), viz.:-Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Newfoundland, New Zealand, including Cook or Hervey Island, Palmerston (Avarua), Savage (Niue), Pukapuka (Danger) Rakaanga, Suwarrow, Manahiki, and Penrhyn (Tongareva) Islands, Nigeria (Northern), including Borgu, Idda and Lakoja Nigeria (Southern), iucluding Akassa, As-aba Benin, Bonny, Brass, Burutu, Calabar, Forcados, Onitsha, Opobo, and Warree, Orange River Colony, St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaal. Trinidad, Turk's Island, Uganda, Wind- ward Islands, viz.:-Grenadines, the, St. Grenada, Lucia, St. Vincent Zanzibar,
British Post Offices at) Hongkong and
Shanghai, Ningpo, Hankow, Lin Kung Tau, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Hoihow, Canton, and Chefoo (between Hongkong and Canton the rate for Letters is 2 cents per oz.)
Macao, (from Ilongkong and Canton).
Do., (from all other British Post Offices in China...
NON-UNION Countries :-
Abyssinia (the delivery of registered art. icles for Abyssinia can be effected only at the Poste Restante at Jibouti. They should be addressed “vid Jibouti ") Afghanistan
Arabia.
China,
Do., Foreign (non-British) Establishments, .
(Friendly Islands Tonga Islands), . Morocco (except Casablanca, El-ksar-el- kbir, Fez, Láraiche, Marrakesch, Maza- gon, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of which places the Gibraltar Post Office French Post Office or German Post Office maintains an Agency under the l'ostal Union Regulations),
Navigator's Island, (Samoa Island),
SINGLE KEPLY
TERS
'PER OZ.
POST CARDS, EACH.
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ГРОУТ CARDS, EACH.
BOOKS NEWSP'S PER 20%.)
REGIS-
TRATION.
RETURN
COMMER-
CIAL
PAPERS.
RECEIPT FOR
REGISTERED
ARTICLE.
cents. 10
centr.
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8
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2 $
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Solomon Island,
Other parte,
Local Delivery,
10 (c) 2
4
10:00
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10
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PATTERNS}
AND
SAMPLES.
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents.
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 4 cents.
(a) An additional charge is made on delivery. (6) Registration in China through British Offices extends to floihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai, Hankow, Liu Kung Tau, and Chefoo only. (c) Prepay. ment is compulsory. (in) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival. Single Newspapers to the following British Possessions and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 ounces or fraction thereof, viz.:—Australia, Ceylon, Formosa, Japan, Netherlands India, Philippines, Straits Settlements, China, Canada, Corea, India, Macao, New Zealand, Siam and Timor. * For Chinese Postal Hong packets the rate to and froxi Canton and to Macao is 4 cents per } doz.
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