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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

230.-Any officer in charge of a PostOffice may delay or refuse the payment of a Postal Note but he must at once report his reasons for so doing to the Postmaster-General.

231.-After the expiration of six months from the last day of the month of issue a Postal Note will be payable only on payment of a commission equal to the amount of the original commission, but after twelve months it will become invalid and not payable. 232.-It shall be within the discretion of the Postmaster-General to suspend at any time the issue of Local Postal Notes.

Imperial Postal Orders

233.—Postal Orders of the values -/6, 1/-, 1/6, 2/6, 5/-, 10/-, 10/6, 20/- may be purchased at Hongkong or the British Post Office Agencies in China at prices which include com- mission and vary with the rate of exchange, payable within three months at any Post Office in the following British Possessions:-

Antigua

Ascension

Bahamas

Barbados

Basutoland

Gibraltar

Gilbert and Ellice Islands Gold Coast

Grenada

India

Bechuanaland Protectorate Jamaica

Bermuda

British Bechuanaland

British Central Africa Pro- Kenya (Brit. E. Africa)

tectorate

British Guiana

British Honduras

British North Borneo

Canada (at certain offices only) Cape of Good Hope

Cayman Islands

Ceylon

Chatham Islands

-Constantinople

-Cook Islands

Dominica

Cyprus

Egypt

Falkland Islands

Johore (Malay States)

Kedah (Malay States)

Labuan

Malta

Mauritius

Penrhyn Island

Rhodesia(Northern and Southern) St. Helena

St. Kitts

St. Lucia St. Vincent Samoa (Apia) Sarawak

Savage Island Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Smyrna (Brit. Agency)

Mesopotamia (Indian Field Solomon Islands Protectorate

Post Offices)

Montserrat

Somaliland Protectorate

Straits Settlements

Morocco (British Agencies at Swaziland Casablanca, Fez, Larache, Tobago

Mazagan, Mogador, Saffi, Togoland (Brit.) Tangier and Tetuan)

Natal

Nevis

Newfoundland

New Zealand

Nigeria

Fanning Islands

Nyasaland

Federated Malay States

Orange Free State

Fiji

Palestine

Gambia

Tonga

Transvaal

Trinidad

Turks and Caicos Islands Uganda

United Kingdom

Virgin Islands Zanzibar

Zululand

234.—The purchaser of any Postal Order must fill in the payee's name before parting with it. He may also fill in the name of the office where payment is to be made. If this is not done the order is payable (within three months) anywhere in the United Kingdom or in the countries named above.

235. Any Postal Order may be crossed to a Bank, and in such case payment will only be made through a Banker.

236.-Postal Orders should always be forwarded in registered covers. If this precaution is not taken no enquiries whatever will be made as to the loss of any such order.

237.--Postal Orders issued in the United Kingdom and above places are payable in Hongkong and at any of the British Post Office Agencies in China. Stamps affixed to orders to make up odd amounts should be left clean and not defaced in any way whatever. Hongkong stamps may be used for this purpose not exceeding 5. or three in number. The equivalents of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 pence for this purpose are taken as 4, 8, 12, 16 and

20 cents.

238. Any regulation in force in the United Kingdom governing the issue and pay- ment of Postal Orders there should be taken to apply to the Imperial Postal Orders issued and paid in Hongkong and at the British Post Office Agencies in China.