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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

Delivery of Registered Correspondence

142. The signature of the addressee of a registered letter is accepted by the Postmaster-General and delivery effected thereon if he is satisfied that it sufficiently establishes the addressee's identity, but any further proof of identity or guarantee such as a "chop" of a firm of standing known to the Postmaster-General and required by him shall be produced if necessary to his satisfaction.

143.-A register of signatures is kept at the General Post Office where any person may register his signature on payment of a fee of $10 per annum, when personal delivery will be made on such signature at the General Post Office.

144.-Receipts for registered letters addressed to a firm inust be signed with the name of some individual for that firm, and not simply with the name of the firm itself.

Insurance

145.-Letters containing paper money, or documents, etc., on which a value has been declared, may be sent from Hongkong to any of the following places, insured to the amount of the declared value:-

* Abyssinia.

Aden (including Perim). Algeria.

Argentine Republic.

Austria Hungary.

Azores.

Barbados.

Belgium.

Berniuda.

Bosnia Herzogovina. Brazil.

* British East Africa and

Uganda.

British Guiana.

British Honduras.

* British North Borneo. British Somaliland (Berbera, Bulhar and Zeyla only). Bulgaria.

Burina. Canary Islands.

Cape Verd Islands (Praia,

St. Vincent & Santiago). Caroline Islands.

Ceylon.

* Chili.

China:

Brit sh Post Office Agencies

Japanese Agencies

Corea (Chosen).

Corsi ca.

Cyprus.

* Dahomey.

Danish West

Indies (St.

Thomas, St. John and St. Croix).

Deninark.

Dutch East Indies (includ- ing Java, Sumatra and Dutch Borneo, etc). Dutch Guiana.

Egypt.

* Erithrea.

| + Falkland Islands.

Faroe Islands.

Fiji Islands. Formosa. France.

* French Congo. French Guiana. *French Guinea. French India.

French Indo China (An- nam, Cambodia, Cochin- China, Laos and Tonkin). French Somali Coast

(Djibouti only). French West Indies (Guade- loupe and Martinique). Gaboon. Gambia.

Germany.

* Gold Coast Colony (Limit

1,500 Francs). Greenland.

Grenada.

Holland.

Iceland.

India (British).

Italy.

* Ivory Coast.

Jamaica.

Japan (including Japanese

Sagalien).

Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and Tortola [Virgin Islands]). Libya (Tripoli and Beng-

hazi only). Luxemburg. Macau.

* Madagascar (including Comoro Islands, Mayotte, Grand Comoro, Moheli and Anjouan or Jolianna).

Madeira.

* Malay States (Limit 1,500

Francs).

Malta.

Marshall Islands.

Mauritania.

Mauritius. Monac ›. Montenegro. * Morocco. New Foundland. * Nigeria, Southern. Norway. Nossi Bé. Portugal.

* Portuguese East Africa. * Portuguese India. Portuguese Timor (Dilly

only).

* Portuguese West Africa. Réunion.

Roumania.

Russia. St. Helena.

St. Lucia.

St. Vincent.

Senegal and Upper Sen- egal and Niger. Servia.

* Seychelles.

Sierra Leone (Freetown

only).

Spain (including Balearic

Islands).

Straits Settlements. Sweden. Switzerland.

Trinidad and Tobago. Tunis. Turkey.

Uganda. United Kingdom.

*

* Insurance confined to certain places only. List of places may be seen at the Post Office. + The amount insurable is limited to Francs 1,250.