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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

Demurrage on Parcels

175.-Any parcel remaining unclaimed for a period of twenty-one days (exclusive of Sundays and Holidays) shall be liable to a demurrage charge of 5 cents per diem for each day beyond such 21 days. The demurrage chargeable on any one parcel shall not exceed $1. The fee shall be payable in postage stamps. No demurrage shall be charged on parcels addressed to persons on board Ship.

Insurance of Parcels

176.-Insurance of Parcels may be effected between Hongkong, the United Kingdom and the undermentioned British Possessions and Foreign Countries:-

Aden

Ascension (via London)

Bahamas

do.

Barbados

do.

Bermuda

do

British East Africa:-

Kilindini, Mombassa Laum only(via Aden) British Guiana (via

London)

British North Bo neo British Somalilan i

Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

Algeria

Austria

Azores

Belgium

Bosnia Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Cape Verde

land

Chile

China (including Pr vince of Yunnan)

China (British Post

Offices)

China Japanese Post

Offices)

Corea (via Japan)

Corsica

Dahomey

United Kingdom and British Possessions

Cyprus (via Egypt) Egypt

Falkland Islands (as far as Stanley only) (via London)

Gambia (via London) Gibraltar

Gold Coast Colony(Axim, Sekondi, Tarkwa, Ac- cra, Ada, Cape Coast Castle, Kwitte, Salt- pond and Winneba) (via London)

India

Ivory Coast Jamaica

Leeward Islands (via

London) Malay States Malta

Mauritius

Newfoundland (London) New Zealand (via London) Nigeria (via London) Nyasaland Protectorate Sarawak Seychelles

Foreign Countries

Denmark

Dutch East Indies

Dutch Guiar a

Dutch West Indies

Ecuador

Faroe Islands

Eithrea

Frm sa

Freh Guiana

Fran

Froch Guinea

Frech Indo-China

French West Indies Germany

Greece

Holland

Iceland

Ivory Coast

$ Italy Japau Karafuto Liberia Libya

Luxemburg

Macao

Madagascar Madeira

Manchuria (Japanese Pist

Offices)

Mauritania

Montenegro

Norway

Portugal

Portuguese East Africa

St. Helena (via London) Sierra Leone do. +Sts. Settlements, Direct Tobago (via London) Trinidad do. United Kingdom (via

Gibraltar)

Windward Islands :

Grenada, and St. Vincent (via L'don.) St. Lucia do. Zanzibar

Portuguese India Portuguese West Africa Reunion

Roumania

Russia (in Asia)

Senegal

Servia

Siam Sweden

Switzerland (via France) Tumor Tripoli Tunis

‡ Turkey

United States

Virgin Islauds of the U.S.

177.—In addition to postage the following fees are charged for insurance of

parcels, viz.:—

Parcels transmitted.

(a) By routes other than the trans-Siberian .. (6) By the trans-Siberian route

For each £12 (fr. 300 or $120) of. insured value or fraction thereot.

$0.25 0.30

The limits of insured value are given in Appendix IV.

178.-The fee, which is for registration and insurance, must be prepaid by means of postage stamps, which must be handed in with the parcel to be affixed to the certificate of posting.

The stamps must not be affixed to the parcel, A certificate of posting must always be obtained by the sender of an insured parcel.

‡‡ 179.-Parcels sent by German packets may be insured to the following places :-

+

++

:

Austria Belgium Denmark

Faroe Islands and Iceland France Germany

Holland Luxemburg Norway

Portugal Sweden Switzerland

* No compensation is given for the loss in Cyprus of parcels containing watches or jewellery.

+ Insurance confined to purcels for Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley and Singapore.

& No compensation is given for the damage in Italy of fragile or perishable parcels or parcels containing liquids. ¡ Adrianople, Caifa (Haifo), Candia, Canea, Cavalla, Dardanelles, Dedeagh, Durazzo, Gallipoli, Ineboli, Jaffa, Janina, Jerusalem, Keresun, Lagos, Mytilene, Prevesa, Retino, Rhodes, Salonlca, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.

ervice suspended.