HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
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234.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. precaution is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made 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 Post Office 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 Post Office 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.
Radio-Telegrams
238.-Radio-telegrams will be accepted at the General Post Office for transmission to ships equipped with Wireless Telegraph apparatus through the Coast Station at Cape D'Aguilar during certain hours.
Time of Communication
239. The approximate number of hours after departure or before arrival during which ships can be reached through the Cape D'Aguilar station is 24 hours.
240. The charges for ordinary radio-telegrams are as follows:-
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For a radio-telegram of
10 words or under.
more than 10 words.
(1) British vessels (except those mentioned at (2) French, Japanese, Russian and United States vessels...
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(2) British vessels: Ajax, Antilochus, Bellero- phon, Cyclops, Ixion, Protesilius, Talthybius, Teucer and Titan
(3) Spanish vessels
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(4) Austrian, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian and f
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Swedish
(5) Other vessels
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Fixed charge of $3 plus 20 cents a word.
Fixed charge of $5.
Fixed charge of $4.50.
Fixed charge
of $5.
Particulars
obtainable at the Radio-Telegraph Counter.
Fixed charge of Hongkong $3 (10
(6) Fort Bayard (Kuong Tcheo Wan) and words) plus fixed
Tchekam
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charge of Indo- China $1.60 (8 words). Fixed charge of Hongkong 3 (10
(7) French Indo (Cochin China, Cambodia, words) plus fixed
Annam, Tonkin and Laos)...
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charge of Indo- China $2.60 (8 words).
50 cents a word.
50 cents a word.
45 cents a word.
50 cents a word.
50 cents. a word
62 cents a word.
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