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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

Insurance

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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.

*Kenya (including Uganda). British Guiana. British Honduras.

* British North Borneo British Somaliland (Berbera, Bulhar and Zeyla only).

Bulgaria. Burina.

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.

Faroer slands.

*Fijil sla

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.

* Gold Coast Colony (limit

1,500 Francs). Greenland.

Grenada.

Holland.

Iceland.

India (British).

Italy.

* Ivory Coast. Jamaica.

Japan (including Japanese

Sagalien).

Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts, and Tortola Virgin Islands]). Libya Tripoli and eng-

hazi only). Luxemburg (Grand Duchy). * Madagascar (including Comoro Islands, Mayotte, Grand Comoro, Moheli and Anjouan or Johanna).

Macao.

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. Portuguese Timor (Dilly

only).

* Portuguese West Africa. Réunion.

St. Helena.

St. Lucia.

St. Vincent.

* Senegal and Upper Sen-

egal and Niger.

* Seychelles. Sierra Leone

only).

(Freetown

Spain (including Balearic:

Islands). Straits Settlements. Sweden. Switzerland. Trinidad and Tobago. Tunis. Turkey.

Uganda. United Kingdom.

*

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

$ cts.

Francs

fee

25

...

1,800

600

50

,,

2,100

900

...

75

"

2,400

1,200

1.00

2,700

""

1,500

1.25

...

"

3,000

* 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.

fee $1.50'

1.75

""

2.00

2.25.

2.50

**

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