HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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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
Fanning Islands
Federated Malay States
Fiji Gambia
Bechuanaland Protectorate Gilbert Island
Bermuda
Beyrout (British Agency)
British Bechuanaland
British Central Africa Pro-
Gibraltar
Gold Coast
Grenada
India
Jamaica
Johore (Malay States)
Kedah (Malay States) Labuan
Lagos
Malta
Canada (at certain offices only) Mauritius
tectorate
British East Africa
British Guiana
British Honduras
British North Borneo
Cape of Good Hope
Cayman Islands
Ceylon
Chatham Islands
Constantinople
(British
Agency)
Cook Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
Egypt
Ellice Islands
Falkland Islands
Montserrat
Orange Free State Panama (British Agency) Penrhyn Island
Rhodesia (Northern and Southern) St. Helena
St. Kitts
St. Lucia
St. Vincent
Salonica (British Army Post
Office)
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
Natal
Nevis
Trinidad
Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda
United Kingdom
Nigeria (Northern and Virgin Islands
Newfoundland
New Zealand
Southern)
Nyassaland
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 inade 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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