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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

(Austrian Agencies.)

Adrianople Candia

Canea (Khania, La Canée) Cesme (Tchesme)

Chios (Khios)

Dardanelles

Dédé-Agatch (Dédé-Aghadj)

Durazzo

Galeppoli

Basutoland

Bermuda

Ineboli

Jaffa

Janina

Jerusalem

Kaifa (Caiffa)

Kavala (Cavalla)

Kerassonde (Kéressoun) Lagos (Turkey) Mitylene

Prevesa Retimo

Rhodes

Rodosto

Samsoun

Santi Quaranta (Serandoz) Trebizond (Trapezunt)

Valona

Vathy-Samos

(British Colonies, Possessions and Protectorates.)

British Central African

Protectorate

British Guiana British Honduras

Cayman Islands

Chatham Islands

Cook Islands Falkland Islands Gambia

Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony Lagos

Malta

Newfoundland

Niger Coast Protectorate Northern and Southern Nigeria Protectorate

St. Helena

Sierra Leone

IMPERIAL POstal Orders

Somaliland British Pro-

tectorate

Uganda Protectorate

West Indies.-Antigua, Bahamas, Barbadoes, Dominica, Grenada,

Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, Turk's Island, Zululand

249.—Postal Orders of the values named below, payable within three months at any Post Office in Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guiana, British Central Africa Protectorate, British Honduras, Cape Colony, Cyprus, Ceylon, Dominica, Egypt, Falkland Islands, Federated Malay States, Gambia, Gibralter, Gold Coast, Grenada, India, Jamaica, Lagos, Malta, Mauritius, Montserrat, Natal, Nevis, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Orange River Colony, St. Helena, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland Protectorate, Soudan, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Trinidad, Transvaal, Turks or Caicos Islands, Uganda, Virgin Islands, Zanzibar, and in the United Kingdom, and at the Agencies of the British Post Office at Ascension, Beyrout, Cons- tantinople, Panama, Salonica, Smyrna, and Tangier, can be obtained at Hongkong or at any British Post Office in China at prices which include Commission, and vary with the rate of Exchage:-

-/6, 1/-, 1/6, 2/6, 5/-, 10'-, 10/6, 20/-

The prices are published from time to time in the Government Gazette and can be obtained on application,

250.—The purchaser of any Postal Order must fill in the payee's name before parting with it. He may also fill in the name of the office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or in the countries named above.

251-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.

252.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precau- tion is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss or alleged loss of any such order.

253.-Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom and above places are payable in Hongkong and at any of the British Postal Agencies in China.

254. Any regulation in force in the United Kingdom governing the issue and pay- ment of Postal Orders there should to taken to apply to the Imperial Postal Orders issued and paid in Hongkong and at the British Postal Agencies in China.

GENERAL

255. As full information regarding articles that can and that cannot be sent by Post is published, under the proper heads, in the "Postal Guide," no application will be entertained for the refund of the value of postage stamps on correspondence which is dis- covered, after the postage labels have been obliterated, to contain any prohibited article, or which exceeds the limit of weight, or which for any other reason cannot be for- warded and has consequently to be returned to the sender, and any loss resulting from a non-observance of the Rules by the sender of an article must be borne by him.

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