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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 2, 1940.

No. 862.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1926,

(POST OFFICE).

By virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the Post Office Ordinance, 1926, and of all other powers him enabling the Governor in Council hereby further amends Class A rates of postage published as Government Notification 657 in the Gazette of the 26th August, 1938. with effect as from the 2nd August, 1940, as follows :-

Amendments.

Rates 6 to 17 both inclusive are rescinded and the following are substituted therefor:

Rates of Postage.

Rate No.

Destination.

By sea to U.S.A. and onward by air.

By air throughout.

Letters

Postcards

per oz. each.

Letters per 1 oz.

Postcards each.

6

United States of America,

Canada.

0.80

0.40

3.50

1.80

*

Cuba, Mexico, Dominican

0.90

0.45

4.60

2.30

8

Republic, Haiti, Porto Rico, Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Dutch West Indian Possessions of Saba. St. Eustasius and St. Martin.

· Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Ecuador, French Guia- na, British Guiana, Peru and the Dutch West Indian Posses-

2.25

1.15

6.00

8.00

sions of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.

9

Guatemala.

Nicaragua,

1.00

0.50

4.80

2.40

Republic of Honduras. Salvador.

10

Canal Zone (Cristobal). Costa Rica, Guadeloupe. Martinique, Republic of Panama, Barbados, Leeward Islands (ex- cluding Virgin Islands). Trinidad, Windward Islands.

1.25

0.65

5.00

2.50

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