HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES
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155.-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 posses- sions is shewn in the attached table :--
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Books,
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ceeding ditional Single
Post l'ost Prices 1 oz. orjoz. or 20)
Cards, 20gram-| grani. cách.
mes.
mes.
Reply Newsp's Regis Receipt
Cards, current, each. Jete, per
2.0%.
Return
tration
for Regis.
Fee. tered
Articles.
centr.
10
cente.
نا
cents. 4
cents,
cents.
8
2
cents.
10
cents.
10
Papers and
Commercial
Samples.
UNION COUNTRIES (except as below).
United Kingdom
Aden, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Bar-
barlos, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Ber-| mudas, British Central Africa, British| East Africa, British Guiana, British Hon- duras, British New Guinea, British North Borneo, British Somaleland, Coicos Is. Canada, Cape Colony, Cayınan Islands, Ceylon, Cyprus, Egypt including the Sou- dan, Falkland Islands, Fanning Island, Fijij Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast Co-l lony, India (British) including Chander-j nagore, Karikal. Mahé, Pondicherry, Yan- am, Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Lee- ward Islands, viz. :—Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitis & Virgin Is lands, Malay States(Federated) viz.:-Ne- gri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, & Selangor, Malta, Mauritius, Natal, including Zulu- > land, Newfoundland, New Zealand, inclu- ding Cook (or Hervey) Islands, Dange| (Pukapuka), Manahiki, Palmerston (AV- arua), Penrhyn (Tongareva), Rakaanga, Savage (Niue) & Suwarrow, Nigeria (Nor- thern) including Borgų, Edila, Lokoja, etc., Nigeria (Southern), including Åkassa,Į Asaba Benin, Bonny, Brass, Burutu, Calabar, Derama, Egwanga, Forcados, Idah, Onitsha, Opobo, Sapele, Warri, etc., Norfolk Islands, Orange River Col-j ony, Rhodesia (Southern) St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,! Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaa|| including Swaziland, Trinidad, Tristan d'Acunha, Turks Island, Uganda, Wind- ward Islands, viz :—Grenadines, Grena. da, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Zanzibar...}} Hongkong and British Post Offices atj Shanghai, Amoy, Canton, Chefoo, Foo-j chow, Hankow, Hoihow, Liu Kung Tau, Ningpo, Swatow and Tientsin (between Hongkong and Canton the rate for Letters is 2 cents per § oz.)
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Mação (from Hongkong ân | Canton)
2 () oz.)
Do. (from all other British Post Offices in China).
4 (3 oz.)j
Nox-USION COUNTRIES 2
Abyssinia (4)
10 (c)
Afghanistan (6).
Arabia (Hejaz and Yumen)
10 (c)
Banks Islands......
10 (c)
China, (Chinese Post Offices), (d). Ellice Islands,,
4 +
Friendly (or Tonga) Islands Gilbert Islands
10 (c) 14
10 (e)
Morocco (except Arcila, Casablanca, El- ksar-el-kbir, Fez, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Mazagon, Mequinez, Mogador. Rabat, Saff, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of!
2.
10
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Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents for commercial papers, and 4 cents for samples,
10
10
10
10 (in)
MARIA|
UURIAI
10
10
which places the British Post Office orj >10 (e) French Post Office or German Post Office! or Spanish Post Office maintains an Agency under the Postal Union Regulations),
New Hebrides, Sta. Cruz Ids., Solomon Id.) Rhodesia, (N.E. and N.W.),
Other parts,
Local Delivery,
10 (c) 10
10 (c)
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10
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2
10
10 (in)!
2.
10
10
(e) The prepaid postaze carrie‹ letters and past cards to desiination, but other articles only as far as the Abyssinian frontier. The delivery of registered articles for Abyssinia can be effectel only at the Poste Restante at Jibouti, they must be addressed "Post Restante JiboutiTM
(4) Corresp indence should bear the sender's name on the cover to avoid detention by the Anicer's agent at Peshawur. Hongkong postage stamps are valid for the payment un correspondence for Afghanistan as far as the Indian Frontier only; for the transit thence to destination additimal postage is payable to the Afghan authorities. (e) Prepayment of postage is compulsory, (d) The foreign Post Offers in China are included in the Postal Union. (18) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival. "Single Newspapera to the following British Possessi ins and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz, or fraction thereof, viz. :—Australia, Ceylon, Hangkong, India, Netherlands India, Siam, Canada, Corea, Japan, New Zealand, Straits Settlements, Cluna, Foriniosa, Marno, Philip- pines, and Timor. ↑ For Chinese Postal Hong packets the rate is 4 cents per 4oz. The unit of weight for letters from the British Post Dices at Shanghai, Amoy, Canton, Chefoo, Foochow, lankow, Hoihow, Ningpo Swatow and Tientsin is 20 grammes instead of 1 on. The Bait of weight from Lidkungtau in the same as that from Hongkong, namely 1 oz.
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