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different conditions of transit, and the influences of climate. This is a consideration: which must necessarily be taken into account in dealing with claims for compensation. Parcels for Greece, Persia, Roumania and Russia must be packed in some material stronger than paper or cardboard. No compensation is paid for damage to articles in- sufficiently packed.

210.-For parcels containing liquids and substances which easily liquify the following method should be adopted :-Two receptacles should be used, and between the inner one, which contains the liquid, and the outer one, which should be of wood or metal, space should be left all round, and this space should be filled with bran, sawdust, or other absorbent material.

211.-Further, a parcel for a Foreign Country must be so sealed by the sender that it cannot be opened without breaking the seals or leaving an obvious trace of violation. The seals must bear the impression of a private mark of the sender.

212.-As to the packing and sealing of insured parcels, see Rule 227.

DELIVERY OF PARCELS

213.-In Hongkong parcels are not, like letters, delivered at the residences of the addressees. Notice of the arrival of a parcel is sent to the addressee, who must then' claim the parcel at the Post Office where it is lying.

214.-In Belgium, France and Spain parcels are delivered by the Railway Com- panies and not by the Post Office, and parcels intended to be called for should be addressed, not to a Poste Restante in those countries, but to a Railway Station (en gare). 215. In the United States parcels are not in all cases delivered at the houses of the recipients. They will, however, be delivered at all places within the delivery of any Express Company of the United States, and when they are not delivered, a notice of their arrival will be sent to the addressees, who must then arrange, to obtain them at the point where they are lying.

RE-DIRECTION AND RETURN OF PARCELS

216.—Parcels arriving in this Colony and re-directed from one address to another in the Colony are treated and charged under the regulations which govern the treatment and charge of re-directed parcels by the Local Parcel Post. (See Rule 105.)

217-A parcel which is returned or re-directed from one country to another is charged the full postage.

COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE

218. The Postmaster-General will (not in consequence of any legal liability, but voluntarily, as an act of grace) give compensation for the loss or damage of uninsured parcels sent by Parcels Post between Hongkong and the United Kingdoin and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries, when such loss or damage takes place while the parcels are in his custody, and does not arise from any fault or neglect of the senders or the nature of the contents:-

Ascension Bahamas

Barbados

BRITISH POSSESSIONS

Cyprus

Falkland Islands

India Labuan

Gambia

British Guiana

Gibraltar

Lagos

British Honduras

Gold Coast Colony

Leeward Islands Mauritius

Ceylon

Grenada

Argentine Republic

Austria-Hungary

Constantinople

Azores

Congo Free State

Belgium

Costa Rica

Newfoundland North Borneo St. Helena St. Lucia

FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Colombia, Republic of French Possessions

Seychelles Sierra Leone South Australia Tobago Trinidad

Spain Sweden Switzerland

St. Vincent

Luxemburg

Germany

Madeira

German Possessions

Norway

Greece

Portugal

Herzegovina

Roumania

Holland

Salvador

Italy

Japan

Liberia

Servia Smyrna

Uruguay

Beyrouth

Bosnia

Bulgaria

Cameroons Chili

219.- The

Danish West Indies

Denmark

Dutch Possessions Egypt France

Tangier

Tripoli Tunis

Samoa (via Germany) Turkey

compensation paid will in no case exceed £1. In the case of parcels lost or damaged while under the control of the Post Office of the above-mentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries the Postmaster General will endeavour to obtain France and some other countries the compensation payable in the case of parcels not pensation for the senders under similar regulations. But in the Parcel Post with weighing more than 7 H, is limited to 15 francs.

220.-No compensation is payable for the loss or damage of an uninsured parcel sent to or from any British possession or Foreign country other than those mentioned above. 221.-The compensation payable will be in accordance with the Rules contained in Rule 95, and with the General Regulations of the local Parcel Post, so far as these are

*pplicable.