HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
General
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239.-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
Acceptance
240.-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
241.-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.
Charges
242. The charges for ordinary radio-telegrams are as follows:-
To
For a radio-telegram of
10 words or under.
more than 10 words.
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(1) British vessels (except those mentioned at (2), French, Italian, Japanese, Russian and United States vessels (2) British vessels: Ajax, Antilochus, Bellero- phon, Cyclops, Ixion, Protesilius, Talthybius, Teucer and Titan
(3) Spanish vessels
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(4) Austrian, Danish, French, Dutch, Norwegian
and Swedish
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(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 $15 plus 20 cents a word.
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)
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(7) French Indo (Cochin China, Cambodia, words) plus fixed
Annam, Tonkin and Laos)...
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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