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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

France and some other countries the compensation payable in the case of parcels not weighing more than 7 b. 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 effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:

Aden (via Calcutta) Ascension (via London)

do.

Bahamas

do.

Barbados Bermuda do. British East Africa :-

Kilindini, Mombass Laum only (via London) British Guiana (via

London)

•

British Som liland Burmah (via Calcutta)

Algeria and Corsica

Austria Hungary Azores and Madeira Belgium Beyrouth

Bosnia Herzegovina Cameroons & Togo Chili

China

China(Japanese Post

Offices)

Constantinople

-Corea (via Japan)

UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS

Ceylon (Direct) § Cyprus (via London) Falkland Island (as far as Stanley 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)

Crete

Caba

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

Danish West Indies Denmark

Dutch Guiana Dutch East Indies

Dutch West Indies Ecuador

Egypt

Erithea

Formosa France

Germany

Holland

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

Karafuto Kiaochau Liberia Luxemburg Manchuria(Japanese

Post Offices) Montenegro

Norway Portuga

St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone do.

I 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)

Roumania

Russia (including Finland)

Servia

Smyrna

Sweden

Switzerland (via France)

Do.

(via Belgium)

Tunis

‡ Turkey(Austrian Post Offices) United States

INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS

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

COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY)

Austria-Hungary

Belgium

and Iceland France

Holland

Denmark, Faroe Islands

Germany

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 following Rule 256 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 (Haito), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Sant. Quaranta, Scio, Trehizond, 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 Benders must supply declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the grossweight of :the Parcel.