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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 Borneo British Somaliland

Burmah (via Calcutta) Ceylon (Direct)

Algeria

Austria

Azores

Belgium

Bosnia Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Cape Verde Island

Chile

China (including Pro

vince of Yunnan)

China (British

United Kingdom and British Possessions

Cyprus (via Egypt) Egypt

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

Gambia (vía London) Gibraltar

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

India

Denmark

Ivory Coast Jamaica

Leeward Islands (via

London) Malay States Ma ta Mauritius

Newfoundland (ondon) New Zealand vilondon) Nigeria (via London) Nyasaland Protectɔrate Sarawak Seychelles

Foreign Countries

Dutch East Indies

Dutch Guiana

Dutch West Indies

Ecuador

Erithrea

Faroe Islands

France

Formosa

French Guiana

Post

French Guinea

French Indo-China

China (Japanese Post

Offices)

Offices)

Corea (via Japan)

Corsica

Dahomey

French West Indies Germany

Greece

Holland Iceland

Ivory Coast

§ Italy Japan Karafuto Liberia

Libya

Luxemburg

Macao

Madagascar

Madeira

Manchuria (Japanese Post

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

Réunion

Roumania Russia (in Asia) Senegal

Servia

Siam Sweden

Switzerland (via France

Timor

Tripoli

Tunis

‡ Turkey

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 ... (b) By the trans-Siberian route

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...

...

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For each £12 (fr. 380 or $120) of insured value or fraction thereof.

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$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 Holland

France Germany

Luxemburg Norway

Portugal Sweden Switzerland

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

+ Insurance confined to parcels 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, Retimo, Rhodes, Salonica, Samsoun, San Giovanni di Medua, Santi Quaranta, Scio, Trebizond, Valona, Vathi.

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