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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 27, 1931.

Hong Kong.

No. 181.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Post Office Ordinance, 1926, Ordinance No. 7 of 1926, on the 25th day of March, 1931.

1. The regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Post Office Ordi- nance, 1926, and set forth in Government Notification No. 337 in the Gazette of the 25th June, 1926, are hereby further amended as follows:-

(a) by the rescission of regulation 1, enacted as appears in Notification No. 449 in the Gazette of the 25th July, 1930, and by the substitution therefor of the following regulation:-

1. The following rates of postage shall be charged on letters (other than

postcards) addressed to the following destinations :--

DESTINATION,

RATES OF POSTAGE.

Places in the Colony...........

United Kingdom, and Bri- tish Possessions and Pro- tectorates:

Via Suez and the

Pacific...

3 cents for each ounce

or part of an ounce.

12 cents for each ounce

or part of an ounce.

Via Siberia..

20

cents for the first

ounce and 10 cents for each additional ounce or part of an

ounce.

Macao

China proper, excluding

Sinkiang, Mongolia and

Thibet..

4 cents for each ounce

or part of an ounce.

Foreign countries generally 20 cents for the first

ounce and 10 cents

for each additional ounce or part of an

ounce.

(b) by the rescission of regulation 2 and by the substitution therefor of the

following regulation:-