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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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France and some other countries the compensation payable in the case of parcels not weighing more than 7 H. is limited to 15 francs.

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 95, 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 effectel between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-

Aden (via Calcutta) Ascension (via London)

Bahamas

Barbados

do.

do.

Bermuda do.

British East Africa :

Kilindini, Mombass Laum only (via Londou)

British Guiana

(via

London)

British Somliland

Burmah (via Calcutta)

Algeria and Corsica

Austria Hungary Azores and Madeira Belgium

Beyrouth

Bosnia Herzegovina

Cameroons & Togo

UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS

Ceylon (Direct) $ Cyprus (via Loudon) Falkland Island (as far as Stauley only) (via London)

Gambia (via London) Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London)

India (via Calcutta)

Jamaica

Lagos (via London) Leeward Islands do. Malta

Mauritius

Newfoundland (via L'don) New Zealand (via London) Nigeria (Southern) (via

London)

Nyassaland Protectorate Salonica Seychelles

FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Corea (via Japan)

Crete

Cuba

Danish West Indies Denmark

Dutch Guiava

Dutch West Indies

Ecuador

Germany Holland

* Italy (via France) * Do. (via Belgium) Japan Karafuto

Kiaochau

Liberia

St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone 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)

Norway Portugal

Roumania

Russia (including Finland) Servia

Smyrna

Sweden

Switzerland (via France)

Do.

(via Belgium)

Tunis

Turkey (Austrian Post Offices) United States

-Chili

China

Egypt

China Japanese Post

Offices)

Erithea

Formosa

Constantinople

France

Luxemburg Manchuria(Japanese

Post Offices)

Montenegro

INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS

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

COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY)

Austria-Hungary

Belgium

and Iceland France

Denmark, Faroe Islands

Germany

Holland Luxemburg Norway

Portugal Sweden

Switzerland

REGULATIONS

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 480 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.

No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquid Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canca, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Sant Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi. No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery

Insurance confined to parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. Each Parcel must be sealed in such a way as to render it impossible that it should be opened without detection. The senders must supply declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the grossweight o

the Parvel.