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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
In no case should the Postmaster act as witness himself. It is not necessary that the witness should be personally acquainted with the payee.
207.-After once paying a Money Order, by whomsoever presented, provided the required information has been given by the party who presented it, the Department will not hold itself liable to any further claim.
208.-The commission to be charged on the issue of the Money Orders payable in Hongkong and the British Post Office Agencies in China will be one cent per dollar, or fraction of a dollar, with a minimum charge of five cents.
209.- An order remaining unpaid after one year from date of issue-(e.g., issued in January, but unpaid at the end of the following January) becomes legally void and lapsed to Government and will not be paid unless satisfactory explanation as to the cause of delay in presenting it for payment can be furnished to the Postmaster-General, who alone can authorise such payment. Repayment of such orders as have already been paid into the Treasury as void may be authorised by the Governor under such conditions as he may see fit to impose.
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Foreign Money Orders
210. When applying for Money Orders payable abroad the public should use the special Requisition Forms, which are supplied gratuitously at the General Post Office, Hongkong.
211.-The applicant must furnish, in full, the surname and, at least, the initial of one Christian name both of the remitter and the payee and the remitter's address. In the case of orders through the United Kingdom the full address of the payee must be given, and if the order be payable to a native in British India the tribe, caste and the father's name should also be furnished.
212. In any case in which the name of the payee is not known the remitter must make a note to the effect on the front of the Requisition Form, and give such descrip- tion of the payec as will be sufficient to identify him or her to the Paying Officer. The order will then be issued at the remitter's risk.
213. In the case of orders drawn on the countries and places through the London Office, a receipt of the issue. of such order only will be given to the remitter, an order in the currency of the country of payment being issued by the London Office, subject to a deduction on such order at the following rates:-
2d. for each £1 or fraction of £1 with a minimum charge of 4d.
All such orders must be expressed in British Currency and, if so desired, the remitter must allow for the above deduction.
214. The commission to be charged will be one and a half cent per dollar or fraction of a dollar, on the amount (or equivalent of the amount) in dollars, with a minimum charge of 10 cents.
Telegraph Money Orders
215. These may be sent to and received from the United Kingdom only. The charges in Hongkong are as follows:-
(a) Money Order Commission at the ordinary rate for Foreign Money Orders. (b) A charge for the Telegram of Advice at the ordinary rate of telegrams ad-
dressed to the country of payment.
(c) A supplementary fee of 25 cents for each order.
215A.--In the Money Order Service between Hongkong and the United Kingdom, Germany, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States and the Union of South Africa a system for furnishing the remitters of money orders, on application at time of issue, with "Advices of Payment" has been introduced. The paying Postmaster, as soon as the orders have been paid, will send the advices direct to the remitters. The fee chargeable for such an advice for each order is 10 cents in addition to the ordinary order commission.
216. The limit for a single money order is £40, Fres. 1,000, $100 Gold, Marks 800, Rs. 600, Yen 400, or $400 Mex.
217.-A foreign order remaining unpaid in Hongkong after one year from the date of issue will be considered void and returned to the office of issue.
218.-Where not repugnant to the foregoing Rules the General Regulations for the issue of the Local Orders will apply to Foreign Money Orders.
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