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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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tion of the payee as will be sufficient to identify him or her to the Paying Officer. The order will then be issued at the remitter's risk.

243.-In the case of orders drawn on the countries and places through the London Office, a receipt of the issue of such order only will be given to the remitter, an order in the currency of the country of payment being issued by the London Office, subject to a deduction on such order at the following rates:---

3d. for sums not exceeding £5, and 3d. for each £5 or fraction of £5 additional. All such orders must be expressed in British currency and, if so desired, the remitter must allow for the above deduction.

244.-The commission to be charged will be one and a half cent per dollar on the amount (or equivalent of the amount) in dollars, with a minimum charge of 10 cents.

245.In the Money Order Service between Hongkong and the United Kingdom, Germany, Straits Settlements, India, Ceylon, Federated Malay States and the Union of South Africa a system for furnishing the remitters of money orders, on application at time of issue, with “Advices of Payment" has been introduced. The paying Post- master, as soon as the orders have been paid, will send the advices direct to the remitters.

The fee chargeable for each order is 10 cents in addition to the ordinary money order commission.

246.—The limit for a single money order is £40, Fres. 1,000, $100 gold, Marks 800 Rs. 600, Yen 400, or $400 Mex.

247-A foreign order remaining unpaid in Hongkong after one year from the date of issue will be considered void and returned to the office of issue.

248.-Where not repugnant to the foregoing Rules the General Regulations for the issue of the Local Money Orders will apply to Foreign Money Orders.

249.-The following is the list of countries and places upon which Money Orders are drawn, viz. :-

DRAWN DIRECT

Australian Commonwealth: (New South

Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania)

British North Borneo

British India (including Burmah and the Agencies of the Indian Post Office in the Persian Gulf, Aden, Seychelles, Portuguese India, British East Africa, German East Africa and Zanzibar) Canada

Ceylon (including orders on Mauritius

and Egypt) Federated Malay States French Indo-China

Germany (including German West Coast

and South West Africa, German New Guinea, Samoa, Marshall Islands and the German Colonies in Oceania)

Japan, (including Formosa, Corea and

Karafuto and Offices in Manchuria) Kiaoutschou (German Protectorate, North China) and German Post Offices in China

Macao

New Zealand Philippine Islands Sarawak Siam

Straits Settlements (including Labuan) Union of South Africa (Cape Colony, Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free States)

United States of America (including

Guam, Hawaii and Porto Rico) United Kingdom

DRAWN THrough London or GERMANY (Foreign Conentries)

France (including Algeria) Greece

Italy (including Agencies

at Assab, Massowali, and

Austria Belgium

Bulgaria

Hungary

Chili

Iceland

Congo Free State (Banana,

Boma and Matadi)

Cuba

Danish West Indies

Islands)

Dutch East Indies

Denmark (including Faroe

Finland

Tripoli)

Liberia

Luxemburg

Netherlands

Norway

Peru

Portugal (including Ma-

deira and Azores)

Roumania

Russia

Salvador

Servia

Sweden

Switzerland

Uruguay

Mexico (and through Japan) Tunis