HONGKONG
POSTAL GUIDE
PARS.
ᏢᎪᎡᎯ.
PARS.
Offices
1
Patterns
66-74
Foreign Postage Rates..
155
Business Ilours
2.3
Postcards
75-79
Unpaid and Partially Paid
Holidays
4
Local Parcel Post ..
80-83
Letters
150
Division of Postal Districts ..
Registration and Compensa-
Letters for Russia .......
137
Deliveries...
0-7
tion
80-90
Exceptional Conditions
1.8
Pillar Boxes
8-1)
Articles not allowed to be
Letters, etc., irregularly
Private Boxes .
10-13
sent by post
100-101
marked with value
150
Private Boxes between Hong-
kong and Canton
14-16
Redirection & Interception 192-107 Poste Restante
Postcards
160-162
108-112
Printed and Commercial
Postage Stamps, etc., Rules
Undelivered Correspondence 113-117
Papers
143-173
relating to Posting
17-19
Articles of value
118
Patterns and Samples
171-182
Reply Coupous
20
Certificate of Posting
119
Prohibited Articles
J
183
Despatch...
21-30
Miscellaneous.....
120-13)
Registration
184-194
Local Postage Rates
31
Local Money Orders and
Insurance of letters
195
Letters
32-40
Postal Notes
131-142
Foreign Parcel Post
196-239
Printed Matter-Newspapers
41-43
Postal Notes
143-153
Foreign Money Orders...
260-248
Book Packets
44-52
Countries comprised in Pos-
Imperial Postal Orders...
249-255
Commercial Papers
03-54
tal Luion
154
General
250
Prices Current Circulars
59-65
OFFICES
1.- The Head Office is in the City of Victoria, Hongkong, with branch offices at Kowloon and Des Vœux Road Central (Western Branch).
BUSINESS HOURS
2. —The General Post Office is open for the transaction of public business on week day from 7 a.ni. 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.in. on Sundays and Holidays. The Western Branch Office is open from 7 a.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 Voeux 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, Headquarter 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 and Macdonnell Road.
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