HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Offices
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Patterns..
66-74
Foreign Postage Rates......
155
Business Hours
2.3
Postcards
75-79
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Holidays
4
Local Parcel Post...
20-88
Letters
156
Division of Postal Districts...
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Deliveries...
6-7
Registration and Compensa-
tion
Letters for Russia...
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Exceptional Conditions
158
Pillar Boxes
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Articles not allowed to be
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Private Boxes ..
11-15
sent by post
101-102
Letters, etc., irregularly
marked with value
159
Private Boxes between Hong-
kong and Canton
10-18
Poste Restante
Postage Stamps, etc., Rules
relating to Posting
19-21
Redirection & Interception 1-110
Undelivered (orrespondence 116-120 Articles of value
Posteals
180-182
111-115
Printed and Commercial
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Papers
143-173
121
Patterns and Samples
174-181
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Reply Coupona
21A
Certificate of Posting
122
Prohibited Articles
182-183
Despatch
22.30.X
Miscellaneous.
123-13-
Registration
184-194
Local Postage Rates
31
Local Money Orders and
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Insurance of letters
195
Letters
32-40
Postal Notes
1:1-112
Printed Matter-Newspapers
41-43
Postal Notes
143-153
Book Packets
44-52
Countries comprised in Pos-
Commercial Papers
53-55
tal Union
Foreign Parcel Post
Foreign Money Orders... Imperial Postal Orders..... 154! General
196-239
210-248
240-255
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Prices Current Circulars
59-05
OFFICES
1.-The Head Office is in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch offices at Kowloon and Des Voeux Road Central (Western Branch).
BUSINESS HOURS
2.-The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on week days from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m.
3.-The Branch Office at Kowloon is open from 7.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on ordinary days, and from 8 to 9 a.m. on Sundays and Holidays. The Western Branch Office is open from 7a.m. to 8 p.m.
HOLIDAYS
4-Sundays and all General and Public Holidays are observed as Post Office Holidays, except as notified in the foregoing paragraph, and except the departure of a contract mail happens to be fixed for a General or Public Holiday, when the Office will be kept open for the purpose of despatching the mails.
DIVISION OF POSTAL DISTRICTS
5. The City of Victoria is divided as follows:
(i.) West side of Pedder Street, Praya Central from Pedder Street to Wing Shing Street. All streets and lanes running from Praya to Queen's Road.
(ii.) East side of Pedder Street, Des Vœux Road from Pedder Street to City Hall, Streets from Des Voeux Road to Queen's Road, Praya Reclama- tion from Queen's Buildings to Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's Offices and Victoria Recreation Club. (iii.) Queen's Road Central from Pedder Street and Wyndham Street to
No. 5 Police Station.
(iv.) Queen's Road Central from Pedder Street and Wyndham Street to City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade, Zetland Street, Duddell Street and Ice House Street.
(v.) Queen's Road from City Hall and Beaconsfield Arcade to Ship Street, Head Quarter House, Arsenal Street and Praya East from Arsenal Street to Ship Street.
(vi.) Wyndham Street (east side) to Dairy Farm Office, College Gardens, St. Paul's College, Pedder's Hill, Government House, Government Offices, Garden Road, Kennedy Road, Macdonnell Road and Bowen Road.
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