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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 26, 1935.

No. 656

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1926, (POST OFFICE).

By virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Post Office Ordinance, 1926, the Governor in Council makes the undermentioned regulations in substitution for the regulations heretofore made under the said section, with effect from the 1st September, 1938,

Regulations.

1. In any government notification specifying the postage rates for the time being in force and in these regulations

"Printed paper" means a document which is produced by some mechanical process other than typewritings

"Commercial paper" means a document produced wholly or partly by hand, which has not the character of personál correspondence and which does not represent a monetary value; and

"Circular" means a communication produced by type- writing or other mechanical process of, which copies are addressed to a number of persons in identical or nearly identical

terms.

2. Circulars for addresses in the Colony shall be posted in batches of not less than ten of uniform size and weight and shall be posted by being delivered to an officer of the Post Office.

3. The maximum weights for the following postal articles shall be as under :-

Letters for any

destination.

Printed papers and commer-

cial

papers.

Maximum

weight.

5 lbs.

for destinations in

the British Empire 5 lbs.

for destinations else-

where

4 lbs.

for destinations in the British Empire or Egypt

5 lbs.

Samples.

for destinations else-

where

1 lb.

Small packets.

posted as such.

Insured boxes.

for any destination

2 lbs.

Literature for the bliui,

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for any destination

11 lbs.

Great Britain and

Northern Ireland, Malaya and China 2 lbs.

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