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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

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226.-After a Postal Order has once been paid, to whomsoever it is paid, the Government will not be liable for any further claim.

227. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Order is cut, defaced or mutilated, payment may be refused.

228.—Any officer in charge of a Post Office may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal! Order, but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.

229.-After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue a Postal Order will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 230. It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Orders.

Imperial Postal Orders

231.-Postal Orders of the values -/6, 1/-, 1/6, 2/6, 5/-, 10/-, 10/6, 20/- may be purchased. at Hongkong, or the British Agencies in China at prices which include commission, and vary with the rate of exchange, payable within three months at any Post Office in the following British Possessions:-

Antigua

Ascension

Bahamas

Barbados

Basutoland

Federated Malay States

Fanning Islands

Fiji Gambia

Gibraltar

Grenada

India

Jamaica

Bechuanaland Protectorate Gold Coast

British Central Africa Pro- Johore (Malay States)

Bermuda

Beyrout (British Agency)

British Bechuanaland

tectorate

British East Africa

British Guiana

British Honduras

British North Borneo

Cape of Good Hope

Cayman Islands

Ceylon

Labuan

Kedah (Malay States)

Lagos

Malta

Mauritius

Canada (at certain offices only) Montserrat

Chatham Islands

Orange Free State Panama (British Agency) Penrhyn Island

Rhodesia(Northern and Southern) St. Helena

St. Kitts

St. Lucia

St. Vincent

Salonica (British Agency) Sarawak

Savage Island

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Smyrna (British Agency)

Solomon Islands Protectorate

Somaliland Protectorate

Morocco (British Agencies at Straits Settlements

Casablanca, Fez, Larache, Swaziland Mazagan, Mogador, Rabat, Tobago Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan) Transvaal

Constantinople (Brit. Agency) Natal

Cook Islands

Cyprus

Dominica

Egypt

Falkland Islands

Nevis

Trinidad

Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda

United Kingdom

Newfoundland

New Zealand

Nyassaland

Nigeria (Northern and Southern) Virgin Islands

Zanzibar

232.-The purchaser of any Postal Order must fill in the payee's name before parting. with it. He may also fill in the name of the office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or in the countries named above.

233.-Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.

234.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers.

If this precaution is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss of any such order. 235.-Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom and above places are payable in Hongkong and at any of the British Postal Agencies in China. Stamps affixed to orders to make up odd amounts should be left clean and not defaced in any way whatever.

236. Any regulation in force in the United Kingdom governing the issue and pay- ment of Postal Orders there should be taken to apply to the Imperial Postal Orders · issued and paid in Hongkong and at the British Postal Agencies in China.

General.

237.-Should it appear that Money Orders or Postal Orders are used by the public for the transmission of large sums of money, or if any other circumstances should give rise to an abuse of the facilities offered, the Postmaster-General may increase the rates of commission or even suspend for a time the issue of all orders.

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