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lapsed to Government and will not be paid unless satisfactory explanation as to the cause of delay in presenting it for payment can be furnished to the Postmaster-General, who alone can authorise such payment. Repayment of such orders as have already been paid into the Treasury as void may be authorised by the Governor under such conditions as he may see fit.
Foreign Money Orders
210. When applying for Money Orders payable abroad the public should use the special Requisition Forms, which are supplied gratuitously at the General Post Office, Hongkong.
211-The applicant must furnish, in full, the surname and, at least, the initial of one Christian name both of the remitter and the payee and the remitter's address. In the case of orders through the United Kingdom the full address of the payee must be given, and if the order be payable to a native in British India the tribe, caste and the father's name should also be furnished.
212-In any case in which the name of the payee is not known the remitter must make a note to the effect on the front of the Requisition Form, and give such descrip' 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.
213. 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.
214. The commission to be charged will be one and a half cent per dollar or fraction of a dollar, on the amount (or equivalent of the amount) in dollars, with a minimum charge of 10 cents.
215.--In the Money Order Service between Hongkong and the United Kingdom, Germany, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States and the Union of South Africa a system for furnishing the reinitters of money orders, on application at time of issue, with "Advices of Payment" has been introduced. The paying Postmaster, 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,
216.--The limit for a single money order is £40, Fres. 1,000, $100 Gold, Marks 800, Rs. 600, Yen 400, or $400 Mex.
217.-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.
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218.-Where not repugnant to the foregoing Rules the General Regulations for the issue of the Local Orders will apply to Foreign Money Orders.
219. The following is the list of countries and places on which Money Orders are drawn, viz. :-
DRAWN DIRECT
Australian Commonwealth: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Aus- tralia, 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, Portu- guese 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) Macao
New Zealand Philippine Islands Sarawak Siam
Straits Settlements (including Labuan) Union of South Africa (Cape Colony, Transvaal, Natal and Orange Free State) United States of America (including
Guam, Hawaii and Porto Rico) United Kingdom
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