Postal_Guide_September_1961 — Page 248

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248 Remittance Services

Value of overseas postage stamps not showing amount in Hong Kong currency

Barbados

Country

British Guiana

British Honduras.

Equivalent of H.K. Cents

Currency

2

10 15 20 30 35 40 50 55

60

70

75

35

Cents of a dollar

2

6

8 10

12

14 16

18

20 22

Dominica

Grenada..

Leeward Islands

St. Lucia

St. Vincent

Trinidad and Tobago

British Post Office Agencies,

Persian Gulf

Kuwait

of a rupee

Fils

Cyprus

Great Britain....

Aden

Kenya, Uganda, and Tan-

ganyika Territory, Somaliland Protectorate, Zanzibur

Malaya (Federation of) (Johore,

Kedah, Kelantan, Negri Sembilan, Pahang, Perak,

Perlis, Selangor, Trengganu,

Penang, Province Wellesley and Malacca)..

Singapore

Brunei

North Borneo

Sarawak.

Mauritius

Seychelles

South Africa

Naye paise

6

12

18

24

29

34

40 45 50

56 62

13

Mila

13

Pence (d)

so to de

17

22

21 25

29

33 38

42 45

17 20 25

.30

33 1..38

42

45

3

4

5 6

7

B

9

10 11

Cents of a

10

15

25 35 40 50

60

65

75

95 90

shilling

Cents of a dollar

4

ཏྭཱ

11

ht

14 18 22 25

29

32

36

40

Cents of a

77

11

14 18 21 25

29

32

36

39

dollar

Cents of a

6

12

12

rupee

231

18 24 30 34

18 24 30 33

39

Cents of a rand

3

880

39

45

44

881

50

0 0 0

LA LA

56

62

56

61

9

INLAND MONEY ORDERS

SCOPE OF SERVICE

Inland money orders are those issued in the Colony for payment at any Post Office in the Colony which deals with money orders.

AMOUNT

A money order may be obtained for any sum which does not exceed $400.

POUNDAGE

Poundage is charged on inland money orders at the rate of

1 cent per dollar or part of a dollar, with a minimum charge of 5 cents.

PURCHASE

A requisition form is supplied to intending purchasers at all money order offices. The full name, title, or designation of the payee and of the remitter should be entered on the form.

CROSSING

The purchaser should state, on the requisition form, whether he wishes the order to be crossed like a cheque, or he may cross the order himself.

ADVICE OF PAYMENT

For a supplementary fee of 40c. payable at the time of the issue of the order subse- quently, the sender will be furnished with the date of payment of the order.

TRANSMISSION OF ORDER

A money order is handed to the purchaser to be sent to the payee. At the same time an advice is sent from the issuing office to the paying office.

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