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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

220.- 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.

221.-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

222.—Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:—

UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS (via London)

Aden (via Calcutta) Ascension (via London)

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda

dlo.

do.

do.

British East Africa :-

Kilindini, Mombassa Launi only (via Loudon)

British Guiana (via

London)

Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

§ Cyprus (via London)

Algeria and Corsica Austria Hungary Azores and Madeira Belgium

Beyrouth

Bosnia Herzagovina

Cameroons

Chili

Foreign

Constantinople

Falkland Island (as for as Stanley only) (via, London)

Gambia (via London) Gold Coast Colony(Axin, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt-

pond and Winneba) (via London)

India (via Calcutta) Lapos

(via London

Leeward Islands

Newfoundland

Danish West Indies Denmark

France Germany Holland

Italy (via France)

* Do. (via Belgium)

do.

do.

COUNTRIES (via London)

Luxemburg

Montenegro

Norway

Portugal

Roumania

Russia (including Finland) Servia

Smyrna

Nigeria (Southern) (via

London)

St. Helena Sierra Leone

(via London do.

| 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 (vis France)

Do. Tunis

(via Belgium)

* Turkey(Austrian Post Offices United States

INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS

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

COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY)

Austria-Hungary Belgium

Denmark, Faroe Island and Iceland France

Germany

Holland Luxemburg Norway

REGULATIONS

Portugal Sweden

Switzerland

224.-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.

225.-No parcel can be insured for more than the sum set in the list given on page 497 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.

226.-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- The number of pounds should be entered in entry is permitted.

vided on the despatch note if one is used. words. No alteration or erasure of the

* 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. il Insurance confined to parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. Eich Parcel must be sealed 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 grossweight of the Parcel.

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