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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

FOREIGN Postage RateS

155.-The Rate of Postage to be prepaid in Hongkong on letters for all Foreign Countries and other British possessions is shown in the attached table :--

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1 oz.

Single Not ex-Eart, ad- |ceeding |ditional Cards,

each.

Post

02.

Cards, current, each. etc, per

2 oz.

Books, Reply Newsp's Regis- | Receipt

l'ost Prices

tration

for Regis.

Fee.

tered

Articles.

cents.

10

cents.

6

centa.

centa,

centa.

cents.

cents.

8

10

10

UNION COUNTRIES (except as below)..

United Kingdom

Aden, (including Perim), Antigua, Ascension, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Bermuda, British EastAfie, British Guiana, British Honduras, British New Guinea (Papua), British North Borneo, British Somaliland, Brunei, Caicos Island, Canada, Cayınan Islands, Ceylon, Cook: (or Hervey) Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Egyptian Sondan, Falkland Islands, Funing Island, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Goldj Coast Colony, Grenada, India (British), in •luding Chandora i pore, Gu odor, Kaikka?, Mahe, Pondicherry, and Yanam, Jamaica, Labuan, Lagos, Malay States, Malta, Muritius, and dependencies, Montse rat, Nevis, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Islands, Rhodesia (South- ern), St. Helena, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islan-1s, (British), South Africa, Union of Straits Settlements, Tobago,! Trinidad, Tristan d'Acunha, Turks Island,! Uganda, Virgin Islands, Zanzibar.

Wei Hai Wei (Liu Kung Tau and Port Elward)) and British Postal Agencies at Shanghai, į Amoy, Chefoo, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Swatow and Tientsin

Canton (British Agency),

Масло.

NON-UNION COUNTRIES :—

Afghanistan (4).

Arabia (Hejaz and Yamen)

4+

Co

A

10

10

2

10

10

|2(4 oz.) †2(} oz.)†

4 (c)

10 (c)

1

¡4 (4 oz) †¡4;4 oz.)†|

Bahrein (Persian Gulf) and Muscat

offices named below

China (b) (Chinese Post Offices) excluding

Canton, Fatshan, Chan Chuen and Whampoa 2(4 oz.)†2(†oz,)+|

Morocco (except Alevzar, Arcila, Casablanca,

Fez, Larache, Marrakesh, Mazagan, Mequinez, Mogador, Rabat, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan, at each of which places British, French, German or Spanish P. O's maintains! an agency under Postal Union Regulations

Nyasaland Protectorate & Rhodesia Northern)|

Solomon Islands (German)

-10 (c)

Tonga (Friendly) Island

Local Delivery

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10

10

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10 (c)

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Hongkong

(a) Correspondence should bear the sender's name on the cover to avoid detention by the Amcer's agent at Peshawur. postaxe strings are valid for the payment on correspondence for Afghanistan as far as the Indian Frontier only; for the transit thence to destinatiin additional postage is payable to the Afghan authorities. (4) The foreign Post Offers in China are included in the Postal Union () Prepayment of postage is compulsory, tim) Registration is incomplete, not extending beyond Port of Arrival. "Single Newspapers to the following British Possessions and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2ceals per 4 oz, or fraction thereof, viz. :—Australia, Ceylon, prues, and Timor. † For Chinese Postal Long Packets the rate in 4 cents per oz. Pre-payment of postage, on l'ostal Hong Packets is com

, Netherlands India, Siam, Canada, Cores, Japan, New Zealand, Straits Settlements China, Formosa, Macao, Philip- pulsory.

Digitized by

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

Commercial

Papers and

Samples.