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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

222. 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 Note. Such stamps should be left clean and not defaced. Perforated or marked stamps cannot be accepted for this purpose. 223.-The office issuing any Postal Note shall fill in the name of the port where it is payable. The purchaser may, before parting with the order, fill in the name of the Payee. 224.--Every person to whom a Postal Note 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.

225. If a Postal Note 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.

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

227. If any erasure or alteration be made, or if the Note is cut, defaced of mutilated, payment may be refused.

228. Any officer in charge of a PostOffice may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal Note but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.

229. After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue a Postal Note 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. 230.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Notes.

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 Post Office Agencies in China at prices which include com- mission, 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

Fiji Gambia Gibraltar

Gilbert Island

Gold Coast

Bechuanaland Protectorate Grenada

India

Jamaica

British Central Africa Pro- Johore (Malay States)

Kedah (Malay States)

Labuan

Lagos Malta Mauritius

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Nyasaland

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

Canada (at certain offices only) Mesopotamia (Indian Field Sierra Leone

Post Offices)

Montserrat

Bermuda

British Bechuanaland

tectorate

British East Africa

British Guiana

British Honduras

British North Borneo

Cape of Good Hope

Cayman Islands

Ceylon

Chatham Islands

Natal

Egypt

Ellice Islands

Nevis

Newfoundland

Falkland Islands

New Zealand

Southern)

Cook Islands

Cyprus

Dominica

Morocco (British Agencies at Casablanca, Fez, Larache, Mazagan, Mogador, Saffi, Tangier and Tetuan)

Solomon Islands Protectorate Somaliland Protectorate Straits Settlements

Swaziland

Tobago

Transvaal

Trinidad

Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda

United Kingdom

Fanning Islands

Federated Malay States

Nigeria (Northern and Virgin Islands

Zanzibar

If

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. 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.