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118 POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Foreign Cities and Towns. — Constantinople, Smyrna, Adrianople, Beyrout, Salonica,
Panama, Tangier.
The following Places in Asia Minor and the Levant.— Candia, Canea, Chios,
Durazzo, Jaflfa, Jerusalem, Kaifa, Kerassonde, Mltylene, Prevesa, Retimo, Rhodes,
Samsoun, Santi Quaranta, Trepizond, Valona.
British Possessions and Colonies. — Bermuda, British Bechuanaland, British Co-
lumbia, British Guiana, British Honduras (Belize), Cape of Good Hope, Canada, Ceylon,
Cj'prus, Falkland Islands, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Hong Kong (with agencies
at Shanghai, Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Swatow, and Ningpo), India
(including Burmah and agencies at Aden, Bagdad, Bandor Abas, Bushire, Busrah,
Guadur, Jask, Linga, Muscat, and Zanzibar), Labuan, Lagos, Malta, Mauritius, Mom-
basa and Lamu, Natal, New Bi-unswick, Newfoundland, New South Wales, New Zealand,
North Borneo (Sandakan), Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Queensland, St. Helena,
Sarawak, Sej'chelle Islands, Sierra Leone, South Australia, Straits Settlements, Tas-
mania, Victoria, West Indies, Western Australia.
Commission : — For sums not exceeding £2 — 6d ; £5 — Is ; £7 — Is 6d ; £10 — 2s.
Postal Orders.
Postal Orders, for certain fixed sums from Is up to £1, are now issued
at all Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom, at the British Post Office
at Constantinople, and in Malta, Gibraltar, India, Straits Settlements, Hong
Kong, and Newfoundland. Such Postal Orders are paid at all Money Order
Offices in the United Kingdom, and at the British Post Office, Constantinople.
Payment is also made in Malta and Gibraltar, provided the Orders were
issued in the United Kingdom or at the British Post Office, Constantinople.
The following are the amounts for which Postal Orders are issued, together
with the Poundage payable in respect of each Order : —
Amount of Order.
Poundage.
Amount of Order.
Poundage
Is Od
id
4s 6d
.
- Id
Is 6d
4d
5s Od
.
- Id
2s Od
Id
7s 6d
.
- Id
2s 6d
Id
10s Od
.
- Id
3s Od
Id
lOs 6d
-
- Id
3s 6d
Id
15s Od
-
- 14d
4s Od
Id
20s Od
-
- IJd
Broken amounts, not being fractions of a penny, may be made up by the use
of postage stamjps not exceeding flvepence in value affixed on the face of any
one Postal Order. Perforated stamps cannot be accepted for this purpose.
The person to whom a Postal Order is issued must, before parting with it,
fill in the name of the person to whom the amount is to be paid, and may fill
in the name of the Money Order Office at which the amount is to be paid.
The person so named must, before payment can be made, sign the receipt at
the foot of the Order, and must also fill in the name of the Money Order |
Office, if that has not been already done.
Every person to whom a Postal Order is issued should keep a record of the
number, date, and name of office of issue to facilitate enquiry if the order
should be lost.
If a Postal Order be crossed ^ cL- Co." payment will only be
made through a Banker, and if the name of a Banker is added, payment wil)
only be made through that Banker.
Prepayment of Letters, &c., in Money.
Inland Letters, Post Cards, Book Packets, Trade Patterns and Samples, and
Parcels, may be prepaid in money, provided that the amount paid be in no
case less than £1, and that the letters and circulars be tied in bundles repre-
senting a postage of 5s each, with the addresses all arranged in the same