HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
Insurance
415
138.-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..
Azores.
Barbados.
Belgium.
Bermuda. Brazil.
* British East Africa and
Uganda.
British Guiana. British Honduras.
* British North Borneo. British Somaliland (Berbera, Bulhar and Zeyla only).
Bulgaria. Burma.
Canary Islands.
Cape Verd Islands (Praia,
St. Vincent & Santiago). Ceylon.
* Chile.
China:
British Post Office Agencies
* Chinese Offices
Japanese Agencies
Corea (Chosen).
Corsica.
* Cyprus.
* Dahomey. Denmark.
Dutch East Indies (includ-
ing Java, Sumatra, Dutch Borneo, etc.)
Dutch Guiana.
Egypt.
* Erithrea.
+ Falkland Islands.
Faroe Islands.
*Fiji Islands.
Finland 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.
Grand Comoro, Moheli and Anjouan or Johanna). Madeira.
* Malay States (limit 1,500
Francs). Malta. Mauritania. Mauritius. Monaco. * Morocco. New Caledonia New Foundland. * Nigeria. Norway. Nossi Bé. Portugal.
* Portuguese East Africa. * Portuguese India.
* Gold Coast Colony (limit Portuguese Timor (Dilly
1,500 Francs).
Greenland.
Grenada.
Holland.
Iceland.
India (British).
Italy.
* Ivory Coast. Jamaica.
Japan (including Japanese
Sagalien).
Leeward Islands (Antigua,
Dominica, Nevis,
Montserrat, St. Kitts, and Tortola [Virgin Islands]). Libya (Tripoli and Beng-
hazi only).
Luxemburg (Grand Duchy). Macao.
only).
* Portuguese West Africa. Réunion.
St. Helena.
St. Lucia.
St. Vincent.
* Senegal and Upper Sen-
egal and Niger. * Seychelles.
Sierra Leone (Freetown
only).
Spain (including Balearic
Islands). Straits Settlements. Sweden. Switzerland.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Tunis.
Turkey.
(including
*
Uganda.
United Kingdom.
* Madagascar
Comoro Islands, Mayotte,
139.-As all the routes available for ordinary letters are not available for insured letters, the latter may be longer in transit than the former.
140.—The following regulations are enforced with regard to the insurance of letters:-
(a) The maximum amount for which a letter packet may be insured is Francs
3,000.
(b) The rates of insurance are: —
Francs 300 600
...
900
•••
1,200 1,500
...
...
...
...
$cts. fee 25
Francs
1,800
...
...
fee $1.50
50
2,100
...
1.75
""
,,
75
,,
2,400
2.00
...
""
1.00
2,700
2.25
...
""
1.25
3,000
...
2.50
*
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.
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