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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

179.- Parcels may be addressed "to be called for" to any Post Office at which letters similarly addressed may be received and under the same general regulations, and will be detained at such offices for a period of three weeks. If not then claimed such parcels. will be returned to the Returned Branch of the General Post Office and notice of the fact will be forwarded to the senders, to whom delivery will be made on payment of the postage due for the return of the parcels.

180.-In default of proper application and payment of the charges due, undelivered parcels are liable to be finally disposed of three months after the date of their return to the General Post Office. If, however, during this period or during the period of reten- tion at a Post Office the contents of a parcel become or are likely to become worthless. through natural decay, or are found to be offensive or injurious, they are liable to be disposed of forthwith.

Demurrage on Parcels

181.-Any parcel remaining unclaimed for a period of twenty-one days (exclusive of Sundays and Holidays) shall be liable to a demurrage charge of 5 cents per diem for each day beyond such 21 days. The demurrage chargeable on any one parcel shall not exceed $1. The fee shall be payable in postage stamps. No demurrage shall be charged on parcels addressed to persons on board Ship.

Insurance of Parcels

182.—Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-

Aden

Ascension (via London)

Bahamas

Barbados

Bermuda

do.

do.

do.

British East Africa:-

Kilindini, Mombassa Laum only(via Aden) British Guiana (via

London)

British Somaliland Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

Cyprus (via Egypt)

Algeria

Austria-Hungary

Azores

Belgium

Bosnia Herzegovina

Cape Verde Island

Chili

China (including Pro-

vince of Yunnan)

United Kingdom and British Possessions

Egypt Falkland Islands (as far as Stanley only) (via London)

Gambia (via London) Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba)

(via London) India (via Calcutta) Ivory Coast

Jamaica Leeward Islands

London) Malay States

(via

Malta

Mauritius

Newfoundland (London) New Zealand (via London) Nigeria (Southern) (via

London)

Nyasaland Protectorate Salonica

Sarawak Seychelles

Foreign Countries

Dutch East Indies

Dutch Guiara

Ecuador

Erithrea

* Italy Japan

Karafuto Liberia

Dutch West Indies

Libya

Luxemburg

Macao

Madagascar

Faroe Islands

France

St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone do.

||Sts. Settlements, Direct Tobago (via London) Trinidad do.

United Kingdom (via

Gibraltar)

Windward Islands :--

Grenada, and St.

Vincent (via L'don.) St. Lucia do. Zanzibar (via Calcutta

Sweden

French Somali Coast

Formosa

French Gu'aan

China (British

Post

Offices)

French Guinea French Indo-China

China (Japanese Post

Offices)

Corea (via Japan)

Corsica

Dahomey

Danish West Indies

Denmark

Iceland

Ivory Coast

French West Indies Germany

Greece Holland

Madeira

Manchuria (Japanese Post

Offices)

Mauritania

Montenegro

Norway Portugal

Morocco

Portuguese West Africa

Réunion

Roumania

Russia (in Asia)

Russia (including Finland➤ Senegal

Servia

Siam

Switzerland (via France)

Do. (via Belgium)

Timor

Tripoli Tunis

Portuguese East Africa

Portuguese India

Turkey United States

183. In addition to postage the following fee are charged for insurance cf parcels, viz.:-

Parcels transmitted.

(a) By routes other than the trans-Siberian (b) By the trans-Siberian Route

For each £12 (fr. 3′0 or $120) of insured value or fraction thereof.

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...

The limits of insured value are given in Appendix III.

$0.25 0.30

* No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquid. ↑ Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retino, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.

No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery. Insurance confined parcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore,