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Basutoland

Bermuda

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

(British Colonies, Possessions and Protectorates)

British Central African

Protectorate

British Guiana

British Honduras

Cayman Islands

Cook Islands

Falkland Islands Gambia

Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony

Lagos

Malta

Newfoundland

Niger Coast Protectorate Northern and Southern

Nigeria Protectorate

St. Helena

Sierra Leone

Local Postal Orders

497

Somaliland (British Protectorate) Uganda Protectorate West Indies : -

Antigua,

Bahamas, Barbadoes, Dom- inica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vin- cent, Tobago, Trinidad, Turk's Island Zululand

218.-Local Postal Orders are issued as follows at the General Post Office and at the British Agencies in China, payable within six months at those offices and also at Macao:-

Commission.

Commission.

Amount.

25 cents

1 cent

50

1

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$1.00

1

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2.00

2

99

Amount.

$3.00

4.00

5,00

10.00

3 cents

4

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5 10

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""

219. In addition to the above commission on Postal Orders issued at the General' Post Office, Hongkong, Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy and Foochow payable at Shanghai, Ningpo, Hankow, Liu Kung Tau, Chefoo and Tientsin a further charge at current rates is made to cover the difference between chopped and clean dollars.

220.—Broken amounts may be made up by the use of Hongkong postage stamps not ex- ceeding 24 cents in value affixed to the face of any one Postal Order. Such stamps should be left clean and not defaced. Perforated or marked stamps cannot be accepted for this purpose. 221.-The office issuing any Postal Order shall fill in the name of the port where it is payable. The purchaser may,

The purchaser may, before parting with the order, fill in the name of the Payee. 222.--Every person to whom a Postal Order is issued should retain the counter- foil bearing the number, date and name of office of issue, to facilitate enquiry if the Order should be lost, and should register the letter in which it is forwarded.

223. If a Postal Order be crossed

& Co., payment will only be made through a Banker, and, if the name of a Banker is added, payment will only be made through that Banker.

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

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

226. 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.

227. 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. 248.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Orders.

Imperial Postal Orders

229.-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

British East Africa

British Guiana

British Honduras

British North Borneo

Cape of Good Hope

Cayman Islands

Ceylon

Dominica Egypt

Falkland Islands Fanning Islands

Canada (at certain offices only) Federated Malay States

Bechuanaland Protectorate Bermuda

Beyrout (British Agency) British Bechuanaland

British Central Africa Pro-

tectorate

Chatham Islands

Cook Islands Cyprus

Fiji

Gambia

Gibraltar

Gold Coast Grenada India