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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
FOREIGN POSTAGE RATES
155.-The Rate of Postage to be prepaid on letters for all Foreign Countries and other British possessions is shown in the attached table :--
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Commercial
Papers and
Samples.
LETTERS
Not ex-Engh ad- |ceeding | ditional'
1 Oz.
Single
Books, Reply Newsp's Regis
Return
Receipt
Post Cards, ength.
Post Prices Cards, purrent,
each. jete, per Fee.
for
tration
Regis. tered
Oz.
2 oz.
Articles.
cents. cente. cents.
10
cents.
4
8
•
cents.
10
cents.
10
co
UNION COUNTRIES (except as below)..
United Kingdom Aden, (including Perita), Antigua, Ascension,|
Australia, Bahainas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Bermuda, British EastAfrica, British Guiana, British Honduras, British| New Guinea (Papua), British North Borneo, British Somaliland, Brunei, Caicos Island, Canada, Cayman Islands, Ceylon, Cook | (or Hervey) Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, Egypt, Egyptian Soudan, Falkland Islands, Fanning Island, Fiji Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Gold Coast Colony, Grenada, India (British), > including Chandernagore, Guador, Karikal,, Mahe, Pondicherry, and Yanam, Jamaica, Labuan, Lagos, Malay States, Malta, Mauritius, and dependencies, Montserrat, Nevis, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Islands, Rhodesia (South- ern), St. Helena, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, (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 Edward) and British Postal Agencies at Shanghai, Amoy, Chefoo, Foochów, Hankow, Hoihow, Ningpo, Swatów and Tientsin
Canton (British Agency)..
Macao..
NON-UNION COUNTRIES :-
Afghanistan (a)..........
Arabia (Hejaz and Yamen)
+
|2() oz.) † 2(3 oz.)+
4 (c)
10 (c)
4
G
2.
10
10
Same as for Books, except that the lowest charge is 10 cents for commercial papers, and i cents for samples.
中
10
10
Bahrein (Persian Gulf) and Muscat
China (4) (Chinese Post Offices) excluding
offices named below
(|4 (3 oz) †jd (} oz.)†|
CN
e
Canton, Fatshan, Chan Chuen and Whampoa 2(4 oz.)†;2(boz,)|
Morocco (except Alcazar, 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)
Tonga (Friendly) Island
Local Delivery
10 (c)
N
oo
4
OD
10 (c)
4
8
4
8
1
10
10
ca
10
10
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คว
1
10
I
10
10
10
10
the
(a) Correspondence should bear the sender's name on the cover to avoid detention by the Ameer's agent at Peshawur. Hangkong Postage stamps are valid for the payinent of postage on correspondence for Afghanistan" as far as the Indian Frontier only for transit thence to destination additional postage is parable to the Afghan authoritieS. (b) The foreign Pout Offices in China are included in the Postal Union. (e) Prepayment of postage is compulsory “Single Newspapers to the following British Possessions and foreign countries are accepted at the special rate of 2 cents per 4 oz. or fraction thereof, viz.-Australia, Ceylon. India, Netherlands India, Siam. Canals, Corea, Japan, New Zealand, Straits Settlements, China, Formosa, Macao, Philippines, and Timor. † For Chineze Postal Hong Packets the rate is 4 cents per oz. Pre-payment of postaze on Portal Iong Packets in compulsory.
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