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Italian East Africa (Assab

and Massowah only).

Italy.

Ivory Coast.

Jamaica.

Japan.

Jibouti.

Lagos.

Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and the Virgin Islands). Luxemburg

Madagascar (Antananarivo, Diego Suarez, Majunga, Ste. Marie de Madagas- car, Tamatave only).

Madeira.

Malta.

Martinique.

Mayotte.

Morocco(Casablanca, Maza- gan, Mogador, Satti, and

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

Tangier only).

New Caledonia.

Newfoundland.

Norway.

Nossi Bé. Portugal.

Portuguese East Africa.

Chinde. Inhambane, Lo- renzo Marques, Mozamb- ique and Quilimane only. Portuguese West Africa (Benguela, Loanda, Mos- samedes Bolama and St. Thomé only).

Réunion Roumania. Russia. St. Helena.

Senegal (Daker, Goree, Ru- fisque, St. Louis, Thyes, and Tivaouane only).

Servia.

Spain (including the Ba-

learic Islands).

Straits Settlements Sweden. Switzerland. Tonquin. Trinidad.

Tripoli (Italian Post Office) Tunis.

Turkey (Beyrout, Caifa or Haifa Cavalla, Chios (Scio), Constantinople, Dardanelles Dedeagatch (Dedeagh), Durazzo Jaffa, Jerusalem, Kerassonde (Keresun) Mytilene, Pre- vesa, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Qua- ranta, Scutar d'Albanie, Smyrna, Trebizond Valo na, Vathy only.

As all the routes available for ordinary letters are not available for insured letters the latter may be longer in transit than the former.

(a) The maximum amount for which a letter packet may be insured is $1,200. () The rates of insurance are:-

$120 ......

...fee 25 cents.

$720...........

fee $1.50

240

50

840

1.75

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360

75

960

2.00

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39

480

600

$1.00 1.25

1,080 1,200

2.25

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2.50

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(c) The fee for insurance is in addition to postage and fee for registration. (d) Insurance to an amount greater than the real value of the contents of a

letter is prohibited.

(e) The infringement of the above rule with intent to defraud deprives the

sender of any right to compensation.

(ƒ) It is forbidden to enclose in insured letters:-(1) Coin; (2) Articles subject to Customs duty, except paper money; (3) Articles of gold or silver, precious stones, jewellery, and other articles of a similar nature.

(g) The sender of a letter containing insured articles receives gratis at the time

of posting a summary receipt for his letter.

(b) The sender of a letter containing insured articles can have sent to him an acknowledgment of the delivery of the packet to the addressee, or can, subsequent to posting of a packet, ask for information as to its disposal, under the same conditions as for registered articles.

(i) An application for an indemnity for loss of an insured letter is only enter-

tained if made within a year of the posting of the insured letter. (j) Letters containing insured articles can only be accepted if enclosed in a strong envelope fastened by means of seals in fine wax, with spaces be- tween, reproducing a private mark, and affixed in sufficient number to hold down all the folds of the envelope. The employment of envelopes with coloured borders is forbidden.

(4) The condition of every letter must be such that its contents cannot be got

at without external and visible damage to the envelope or the seals. (7) Space must be left between the postage stamps used for the prepayment, so that they cannot serve to hide injuries to the envelope. They must not be folded over the two sides of the envelope so as to cover the edge. (m) Letters containing insured articles addressed to initials or directed in

pencil are not accepted.

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