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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

INSURANCE OF PARCELS

222.— Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-

Aden

Ascension (via Londen)

Bahamas

dlo.

do.

Barbados Bermuda do. British East Africa :—

Kilindini, Mombassa

Laum Only (via London)

British Guiana, via L'don British Somaliland Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

Algeria

Austria-Hungary

Azores and Madeira

Belgium

Beyrouth

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Cameroons and Togo Cape Verde Island

Chili

China

China Japanese Post Offices)

Constantinople

Corea (via Japan)

UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH POSSESSIONS

Cyprus (via London) Falkland Islands (as far as Stanley only) (via London)

Gambia (via London) Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony(Axim,

Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- era, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London) India (via Calcutta)

Jamaica Lagos (via London) Leeward Islands do. Malay States Malta

Mauritius

Newfoundland (via L'don) New Zealand (via London) Nigeria (Southern) (via

London)

Nyasaland Protectorate Salonica Sarawak

FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Danish West Indies

Denmark

Dutch East Indies Dutch Guiana

Dutch West Indies Ecuador

Екурс

Erithrea

Faroe Islands Formosa

France

French Guiana

French Guinea

French Somali Coast.

Iceland

Italy Ivory Const Japan

Karafuto

Kiucchau

Seychelles

St. Helena (via Londen) Sierra Leone do.

Sts. Settlements, Direct Tobago (via London) Trinidad do. United Kingdom (via

Gibraltar)

Windward Islands;—

Grenada, and St. Vincent (via L'don) St. Lucia do.

Zanzibar (via Calcutta)

Portuguese India

Portuguese West Africa Réunion

Roumania

Russia (in Asia)

Russia (including Finland)

Senegal

Servia

Smyrna

Sweden

Manchuria (Japanese Post Switzerland (via France)

Do. (via Belgium)

Liberia

Luxemburg

Macao

Madagascar

Offices)

Montenegro

New Caledonia

Norway

Portugal

Portuguese East Africa

Tripoli

Tunis

Corsica

Crete

Caba

Dahomey

French West Indies Germany

Holland

1 Turkey United States

INSURANCE OF PARCELS BY GERMAN PACKETS

223. -Parcels for the undermentioned places can be insured :—

COUNTRIES (VIA GERMANY)

Austria-Hungary

Belgium

and Iceland France

Denmark, Faroe Islands

Germany

Holland Luxeraburg Norway

GENERAL REGULATIONS.

Portugal Sweden Switzerland

Insured articles have all the safeguards of the registration system; and, subject to the following regulations, compensation will be putid if they or any of their contents are lost in the post. Insured articles must not be addressed to initials or in pencil.

A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender. He may also obtain an advice of the delivery of a letter and in the case of certain countries of an insured parcel, under the same conditions as those applicable to registered letters.

All the seals on an insured letter must be of the same kind of wax (or lead in the case of parcels), and must bear distinct impressions of the same private device. Coins must not be used for sealing; and the device must not consist merely of straight, crossed, or curved lines which could readily be imitated.

If an article tendered for insurance does not, in the opinion of the Officer of the Post Office to whom it is tendered, fulfil the foregoing conditions as to packing and seal- ing, it is his duty to refuse to insure it. Nevertheless, the onus of properly enclosing, packing, and sealing the packet lies upon the sender; and the Post Office assumes no liability for loss arising from defects which may not be observed at the time of posting.

The amount for which an article is insured must be written by the sender both in words and in figures, at the top of the address side of the cover. No alteration or erasure of the inscription is allowed. If a mistake is made, the entry must be completely obliterated and an entirely new one made by the sender.

REGULATIONS

224.--The fee (which is for insurance and registration) must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which the sender must hand in at the same time with the parcel to be affixed to the certificate of posting; they must not be placed on the cover or label of the parcel. A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insured parcel.

*No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquid- ↑ Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizon, Valona, Vathi. § No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery. Insurance confined to parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. Each Parcel must be sealed in such a way as to render it impossible that it should be opened without detection. The senders must supply a declaration of the nature, value, and net weight of the contents and of the gross weight

of the Parcel.