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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

221.-No compensation is payable for the loss or damage of an uninsured parcel sent to or from any British possession or Foreign country other than those mentioned above.

222.-The compensation payable will be in accordance with the Rules contained in Rule 96, and with the General Regulations of the local Parcel Post, so far as these are applicable.

INSURANCE OF PARCELS.

223.-Insurance of l'arcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-

UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS (via London).

Adeu (via Calcutta) Ascension (via London)

Bahamas

Barbados

do. do.

Bermuda do. British East Africa :—

Kilindini, Mombassa Laum only (via London)

British Guiana (via

London)

Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

§ Čyprus (via London)

Algeria and Corsica Austria Hungary Azores and Madeira Belgium

Beyrouth

Bosnia Herzagovina

Cameroons

Chili

FOREIGN

Constantinople

Falkland Island (as far as Stanley only) (via London)

Gambia (via London) Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London) India (via Calcutta) Lagos (via Lon don Leeward Islands Newfoundland

Danish West Indies Denmark

France

Germany Holland

Italy (via France)

do,

do.

COUNTRIES (via London).

* Do. (via Belgium)

Luxemburg

Montenegro Norway

Nigeria (Southern) (via

London)

St. Helena

Sierra Leone

(via London

clo.

|| Straits Settlements

(Direct)

Tobago (via London) Trinidad

do.

United Kingdom (via

Gibraltar)

Windward Islands :-

Grenada, and

St.

Vincent (via London)

St Lucia

do.

Zanzibar (via Calcutta)

Sweden

Switzerland (via France)

(via Belgium)

Do.

Portugal

Tunis

Roumania

Russia (including Finland)

Turkey(Austrian Post Offices United States

Servia

Smyrna

INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS.

224. -Parcels for the undermentioned places can be insured :—

COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY).

Germany

Holland Luxemburg Norway

Austria-Hungary

Belgium

Denmark, Faroe Island and Iceland

France

REGULATIONS.

Portugal Sweden Switzerland

225.-The fee (which is for insurance and registration) must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which the sender must hand in at the same time with the parcel to be affixed to the certificate of posting; they must not be placed on the cover or label of the parcel. A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insured parcel.

226.-No parcel can be insured for more than the sum set in the list given on the preceding page against the name of the country or colony to which it is addressed, or for a sum above the real value of the contents. A parcel of which the contents have no saleable value may, however, be insured for a nominal sum in order to obtain the safeguards of the registration system. Over-insurance is a bar to compensation.

227.-The sum for which a parcel is to be insured must be entered on the cover, thus:-"Insured for £ -8.- -d." It must also be inscribed in the place pro- vided on the despatch note if one is used. The number of pounds should be entered in words. No alteration or erasure of the entry is permitted.

* No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquids. ↑ Adrianople, Caifa, (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi. No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery. Insurance confined to parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. Each Parcel must be scaled in such a way as to render it impossible that it should be opened without detection. The senders must supply a declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the gross weight of

the Parcel,