Directory_and_Chronicle_1913 — Page 538

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

District.

No. of Pillar Box.

13

19

9626

20

21

Macdonell Road

26

Park View

Ladder Street

Peddar Street Ferry Wharf

27

Lower Tram Station

15

14

15

15

15

16

15

17

15

18

15

25

16

17

12

672

225

22

23

24

IN KOWLOON

Cosmopolitan Dock.

Hung-Hom Dock.

Yaumati Police Station.

Yaumati Gas Works.

Junction of Cameron and Carnarvon Roads. Kowloon Ferry Wharf

IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS

Pokfulam.

Kowloon City.

Quarry Bay.

525

9.-Letters containing any article of value should not be posted id a Pillar Box, but should be registered at the General or Branch Post Offices and a receipt obtained for the same.

PRIVATE BOXES

11.-Private boxes may be rented in the General Post Office, Hongkong. The fee is $10 a year, payable in advance.

12-Each boxholder is supplied with a key and an account book free, but must him- self provide at least two stout bags marked with his name in English and Chinese on both sides. Chinese nankin makes the best bags for this purpose. They should be without strings, but have a couple of iron rings at the mouth for suspending. Box- holders should insist on their coolies returning these bags to the Post Office as soon as emptied, or at any rate not later than next morning. The only safe way to empty a bag is to turn it inside out.

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14. The advantages of renting a box are many. It secures a quicker and more accurate delivery of correspondence. Boxes are required to be cleared by Boxholders on the arrival of European and American Mails; on ordinary days delivery will be made by postmen unless boxholders desire that their daily correspondence should remain in their boxes to be cleared by themselves. Access to the boxes is afforded to boxholders in Hongkong at all hours. Unpaid letters are delivered to boxholders without the delay of demanding payment, change. &c., as they are charged to the account. The boxholders of Hongkong send bags down in the mail steamer to be filled. Box- holders are allowed to post their letters in sealed boxes*.

15.--Boxholders' books are sent out for settlement on the first day of each month and should be returned promptly. As a general rule no information can be given as to the correspondence charged in these accounts, where it came from, &c. There is odly one way to obtain such information, and that is to file the covers of all unpaid corres- pondence received. Entries On Board are for unpaid correspondence dealt with by the marine officer on his way up from Singapore.

PRIVATE LETTER BOXES BETWEEN HONGKONG AND CANTON

16.-Private Letter Boxes may be placed on board the River Steamers belonging to or managed by the Hongkong, Cadton and Macao Steam Boat Company, Limited running between Hongkong and Canton.

• The boxes should be closed with some recognizable seal. Locked boxes cannot be allowed. A receipt book should be sent with each box, but as the receiving officer cannot undertake to count the correspondence sent, he only gives a receipt for One Bor. No attention is promised to anything written in the book– To be Registered, for instance.

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