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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1939.

No. 742.

Order.

WHEREAS it is provided by section 2 of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, as applied to this Colony by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, published as Government Notifications Nos. 707 and 708 in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 26th August, 1939, that the Governor may by order provide for imposing and recovering, in comexion with any scheme of control contained in or authorized by Defence Regulations, such charges as may be specified in the order:

AND WHEREAS it is provided by regulation No. 6 of the Defence Regulations, 1939, published as Government Notification No. 703 in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 26th August. 1989, that the Governor may make provision by order for securing that postal packets of any such description as may be specified in the order shall not be despatched by post from this Colony to destinations outside this Colony, except in accordance with the order :

NOW 1, Sir GEOFFRY ÁLEXANDER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice- Admiral of the same, by virtue and in exercise of the said recited powers hereby ORDER that-

(1) with effect from 5 p.m. on Monday, the 4th September, 1939, and until my further order, letters and postcards for destinations to which rates Nos. 2, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 in Class A in Government Notification No. 657 of the 26th August, 1938, as sub- sequently amended, for the time being apply, shall not be despatched by air from this Colony unless in addition to the postage (of 15 cents per half ounce for letters and ten cents each for postcards) a surcharge of one dollar per half ounce in the ease of letters and one dollar each in the case of post- cards has first been paid by additional postage stamps, and then only to such destinations as the Postmaster-General may from time to time determine by notice published in the news- papers and posted in the General Post Office; and

(2) the rates of postage to the said destinations by surface transport shall be-

(a) if the destination is a British possession, protectorate or mandated territory, for letters, fifteen cents for the first ounce and ten cents for each succeeding ounce, and for postcards, ten cents each;

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