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HONG KONG POSTAL GUIDE

Printed Papers.

31.-The term "Printed Papers" includes newspapers, periodicals, books sewn or bound, pamphlets, sheets of music (excluding perforated sheets intended to be used with automatic musical instruments) visiting cards, address cards, proofs of printing with or without the relative manuscript, engravings, photo- graphs and albums containing photographs, pictures, drawings, plans, maps, catalogues, prospectuses, advertisements and notices of various kinds, printed, engraved, lithographed or mimeographed and, in general, all impressions or copies obtained upon paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, mimeography or any other mechanical process easy to recognize, except the copying press, a typeset hand stamp and the typewriter.

32.-Reproductions of a manuscript or type-written original when they are obtained by a manifolding process (hectography, &c.) are allowed to pass as printed papers; but, in order to pass at the reduced postage, these reproductions must be handed in at the counter of the General Post Office, and must number at least twenty copies, precisely identical. They must not be dropped into a letter-box. The manuscript additions authorised for printed papers may also be made in these reproductions.

33.-Printed papers which bear any marks whatever capable of constituting a conventional language, or the text of which has been modified after printing, save in the manner explicitly authorised by the exceptions below, cannot be sent at the rate for printed papers. It is permissible:

(a) to indicate by hand or by a mechanical process the name, position, the profession, firm and address of the sender and of the addressee as well as the date of despatch, the signature, telephone number, telegraphic address, and code, and postal cheque or banking account of the sender;

(b) to correct errors in printing;

(c) to strike out, to underline, or enclose by marks, certain words or certain parts of a printed text, unless this is done with the object of constituting personal correspondence.

(ii) it is also allowed to indicate or to add by hand or by a mechanical process:

(a) in advices of the departures and arrivals of ships:

the dates and times of departures and arrivals as well as the names of the ships and the ports of departure, call and arrival;

(b) in travellers advices:

the name of the traveller, the date, time and place of his intended visit, and the address at which he is staying;

(c) in forms of order or subscriptions for publications, books, news-

papers, engravings, pieces of music;

the works required or offered, as well as the price of these works;