HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE
From Kowloon branch (General delivery).
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From Kowloon Point to the South side of Austin Road and Euro- pean residences between Jordan and Austin Roads and to Hunghom at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.: to Kowloon City at 9.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.
From Yaumati branch (General delivery).
From the north side of Austin Road to Mong Kok Tsui at 9.30
a.m. and 4.30 p.m.
From Sham Shui Po branch (General Delivery).
From Mong Kok Tsui to Lai Chi Kok at 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays there is one delivery of ordinary correspondence from the General Post Office at 11.30 a.m. and one delivery from the branch offices at noon.
79.-Letters for rural districts are forwarded to the nearest Police Station but immediate delivery cannot be guaranteed. Residents of rural dis- tricts who have offices in the city may however, upon application to the Post- master General, have their correspondence intercepted and delivered to their offices.
80.-To facilitate the delivery, and as a means to prevent the loss of letters, a letter-box should be affixed to the door of every house or office. Such letter boxes should be provided with locks and the keys kept by responsible persons,
81.--Correspondence addressed to persons on board ships will be delivered to the agents of the ships, and if there be no agents, such correspondence will be kept at the General Post Office to be claimed, in accordance with the rules of the Poste Restante.
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Poste Restante.
82.-All postal packets superscribed "To be kept till called for," To await arrival, or in any similar way, and also those addressed "Post Office," without any other address are held to fall under the head "Poste Restante." The Public are requested to note carefully the rules governing the Poste Restante.
83.-When correspondence is received addressed to a person in "Hong Kong" without a full address and no request has been received from the addressee regarding it or his name does not appear in a local Directory, such correspondence will be placed in the Poste Restante.
84.-The Poste Restante being intended solely for the accommodation of strangers and travellers who have no permanent abode in the Colony, postal packets for residents must not be addressed to the Post Office to be called for, nor will postal packets be kept in the Poste Restante longer than the following periods, viz. —
Two weeks in the case of a postal packet posted in the Colony and two months in the case of a postal packet posted in any place outside the Colony: provided that the Postmaster General may extend either of these periods in any particular case.
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