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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 shown in the attached table :--

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[Not ex-Each ad-

ceeding ditional Single

1 oz. or oz. or 20 20 gram- gram.

Bocks, Reply Newsp's Regis Post! Post Prices

Cards, current,

Cards,

Return Receipt

tration

each.

each. etc, per

Fee.

for Regis- tered

2 oz.

Articles.

cents.

10

cents.

6

cents.

cents.

cents.

cents.

4

8

2 *

10

cents.

10

mes.

mes.

Commercial|

Papers andj Samples.

UNION COUNTRIES (except as below).

United Kingdom

Aden, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Bar

bados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Ber- mudas, British Central Africa, British East Africa, British Guiana, British Honduras, British New Guinea, British North Borneo,| British Somaliland, Caicos Is., Canada, Cape Colony, Cayman Is., Ceylon, Cyprus, Egypt (including the Sondan), Falkland Islands, Fanning Island, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, GoldCoast Colony, India (British), including Bahrain, Chandernagore, Guadar, Karikal, Mahé, Muscat, Pondicherry, urd Yanam; Jamaica, Johore, Labuan, Lagos, Leeward Islands, viz. :— Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts and Virgin] Islands; Malay States (Federated) viz.?-- Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak, and Sel angor; Malta, Mauritius, Natal, including 4+ Zululand Newfoundland, New Zealand,] including Cook (or Hervey) Islands, Danger (Pukapuka), Manahiki, Palmerston (Ava- rua), Penrhyn (Tongareva), Rakanaga, Savage (Niue) and Suwarrow; Nigeria (Northern), including Borgu, Idda, Lokoja, etc.; Nigeria (Southern), including Akassa, Asaba Benin, Bonny, Brass, Burutu,Į Calabar, Degama, Egwanga, Forcados, Idah. Onitsha, Opobo, Sapele, Warri, etc.; Nor- folk Islands, Orange River Colony, Rhodesia (Southern), St. Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles. Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Tobago, Transvaal, including Swaziland; Trinidad, Tristan d'Acunha, Turks Island, Uganda, Windward Islands, viz.: Grenadines, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Zanzibar. Hongkong, Liukung au and British Post]

Offices at Shanghai, Amoy, Chefoo, Foo- chow, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Swatow and Tientsin

4+

8

2 *

10

4 +

++

Canton (including Chinese Post Office at Fat

shan, Chan Chuen and Whampoa), from Hongkong (and Canton to Hongkong)..2(oz.)+2 oz.)+1 Canton only, from Liukungtan and all other

British Post Offices in China,

Macao (from Hongkong and Canton)

Do. Liukungtau (from all other British

Post Offices in China)

NON-UNION COUNTRIES :-

Afghanistan (a),

Arabia (Hejaz and Yamen)

2 oz.)+(ox.)t

4+

1+

4(3 oz.);† 1 oz.)+J

4 (c)

1***

446

"

10000

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Banks Islands...

China (Chinese Post Offices), (b) from Houg-

kong and Liukungtau only

Ellice Islands..

Friendly (or Tonga) Islands

Gilbert Islands

Morocco (except Arcila, Casablanca, Elksarel- kbir, Fez, Laraiche, Marrakesch, Mazagon, Mequinez, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier

10 (c)

10 (c)

4 (4 oz) † 1(oz.)† 1

10 (c) 10

6

G

10 (c)

6

61 00 00 00

10

10

10

UU AA1

10 (in)

10

10

2

10

10

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*

ANNA

Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents for commercial papers, and 4 cents for saniples.

New Hebrides, Sta. Cruz Is., Solomon Is. Rhodesia (N. E. and N. W.)........ Local Delivery,

and Tetuan, at each of which places the 10 (e) British Post Office or French Post Office or German Post Office or Spanish Post Office maintains an Agency under the Postal | Union Regulations)

99*

10 (c) 10

સ્વ

00 00 61

Co

A

22N

199

199

10

10

10

10

Hongkong

(a) Correspondears should bear the sender's name on the cover to nvull detention by the Anieer's agent at Peshawur. destination widitional postare is payable to the Afghan authorities.

Maps are valid for the payment on correspondence for Afghanistan as far as the Indian Frontier only; for the transit thence to (b) The foreign Post Offices in China are included in the Postal Union Prepayment of postage is compulsory, (in) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival. Single Newspapers to the following Britisu Possessions and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz. or fraction thereof, viz.Australia, Ceylon, India, Netherlands India, Siam, Canada, Corea, Japan, New Zealand, Straits Settlements, China, Formosa, Macao, Philip- pines, and Timor. For Chinese Postal Long Packets the rate is 4 cents per oz. Pre-payment of postage on Postal Hong Packets is com- bulsory The unit of weight for letters from the British Post Offices at Shanghai, Amoy, Canton, Chefoo, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Ning, Awatow, and Tientsin is 20 grammes instead of 1 oz. The uult of weight from Liukungtau is the same as that from Hongkong

namely, 1 oz.