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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
2. —On week days the General Post Office is open for the sale of stamps from 7 a.m.
to 6 p.m. The Registration and Parcel Branch and the Poste Restante are open from 7
;a.m. to 5 p.rn. The Money Order Office is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., except on
Saturdays, when it closes at 1 p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m. with the exception of the Money Order
Office, which is entirely closed.
iT.R.—Postal Notes can be obtained at the Registration counter on Saturdays
between 1 and 5 p.m.
3. —On week days the branch offices are open from 7 am. to 6 p.m.
The Money Order branch at Tsimshatsui is open from 10 a.m. co 4 p.m. The Postal
Order branches at Wantsai, Saiyingpun and Yaumati are open from 7 a.m. to 6. p.m.
On Sundays and Holidays from 8 to 9 a.m., with the exception of the Tsimshatsui
branch, which is entirely closed. The Sheung Wan branch is again opened from 3.30 to
<6 p.m.
(a) The Money Order branch at Tsimshatsui is closed at 1 p.m. on Saturdays
and all day on Sundays and Holidays
(b) On days when an English or French contract mail is leaving the Money
Order branch at Tsimshatsui will not open until noon.
4. —(Relates to the division of the City for delivery purposes.)
5. —(delates to the hours of deliveries in the various districts.)
6. —(Advocates the provision of Letter Box in offices and houses.)
7. —Correspondence for Shipping in Harbour will be delivered to the Agents, and
if there be no Agents such correspondence will be kept at the Post Office to be claimed.
8. — Pillar Boxes are fixed in Hongkong and Kowloon at the following places, and
are cleared daily at the hours marked thereon.
Hongkong
(1) Entrance to Victoria Gap Tram Station.
(2) Mount Kellett Road at entrance to Des Voeux Villas.
(3) Junction Aberdeen and Mount Gough Roads.
(4) Junction Mount Gough and Plantation Roads.
(5) Western entrance to Victoria Hospital.
(6) Entrance to Tai Koo Sugar Refinery (private).
(7) Junction Shaukiwan Road and Watson Street.
(8) Causeway Bay.
(9) Wantsai Police Station.
(10) Queen’s Road East at entrance to Victoria Barracks.
(11) Hongkong Club (private).
(12) Entrance to Peak Lower Tram Station.
(13) Junction Macdonnell Road and Calder Path.
(14) Junction Peak and Garden Roads.
(15) Junction Seymour and Castle Roads.
(16) Junction Old Bailey and Caine Roads.
(17) Junction Ladder Street and Hollywood Road.
(18) Hongkong University (private).
(19) Junction Lyttelton Road and Babington Path.
(23) Junction Oaklands and Babington Paths.
(21) Government Civil Hospital (private).
(22) Junction Western Street and Queen’s Road West.
(23) Nazareth, Pokfulam (private).
(24) Pokfulam Police Station.
Kowloon
(25) Cosmopolitan Docks (private).
(26) Yaumati Police Station.
(27) Gas Works.
(28) Hunghom Docks (private).
(29) Wuhu Street, Hunghom.
(30) Junction Carvarvon and Cameron Roads.
(31) Junction Nathan and Kimberley Roads.
(32) Kowloon Ferry Wharf.
(33) Kowloon City.
WB.—Letters can be posted at any Police Station in the New Territory.