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APPLICATIONS fOn RECAL L OF LETTERS.
No letter, parcel or other postal packet can, when once it has been posted in a. Post
()ffice receptacle or accept.ed for transmission at a Post Office, be taken out of the post,
-even if application be made for H by a person who ca.n prove that he is the sender, with-
out the authority of the Governor. Nor eau it be detained or delayed at the sender's
request; it must be forwardeEl to its address· and cuunot be diverted to any other
~ddress. w
PniVATE LETTER BOAES AND BAGS.
Private letter boxes, available for the subscribers· use from 7 a. m. till 5.30 p.m. on
week days (a.nd also for two or three hours after t.he arrival of important over-sea mails)
may be rented for 12s. a year at the Post Offices of IDngston. (from 8 n.m. to 4 p.m.,)
J>ort AJ:ltonio, Montegc Bay and Ma.ndeville.
Private bags-By permission of the Post.master for Jamaica any person may have his
letters conveyed to and from the Post Office in a private bag upon p11ymeut of an annual
fee of one guinea. The bag to be looked, one key being kept by the Postmast.er and
·One by the owner of the bag.
When a private letter bag is conveyed by a mail cont.ractor a further annual ree or
one guinea is to be paid. These ree.~ must be paid in ndvanc!e through the Postmsster
ior Ja.maicll..
POSTE RESTANTE.
The Posl.e Restante is intended solely for the 11coorumodation of strangers and tr~vellers
and even they may not use it for more than three months.
Letters nddt·essed to initials, or to ficLitious narues, or tu a cbrist.iAn name without 11.
surname are not t.aken in at the Poste Restante, but are tre:1ted ~ undelivered and
returned to senders.
Period of Retention or Unrleliverlld Correspondence:
Origin. At Kingston. At District Post Offices.

P~ces abroad Four weeks Eight weeks
"Local Two weeks Four we~>ks

STJU:ET COLLECTING BOA~.

Collecting boxes are to be fou.nd at the following places in Kingstoo and Lower St.
Andrew. (The times af. which they are cleared are stll.led on each.)
1. Ring and North Street.s 23. Campben Town, Liverpool & liawpton
2. Colonial Secretary's Office Street.'>.
3. Charles and Enst Streets 24. Woodford Pa.rk
4. Kingston Gardens 25. Duke and Frarhour Streets
5. Fire Brigade Station 26. Manchester Square, South Race Course
6. Jnmaica Club 27. Lnws and East Streets
7. Torrington Bridge 28. Bll.llllah St. and Rose Lane
8. Allman Town ConsLabulary Station 29. Arnold Road, north or Connolly Avenue
9. South Camp Read near North Street 30. Studley Park Road
10. Righholbora a ad Laws Streets 31. South Camp Road Hotel
11. Park Lodge 32. Marescaux Road and Club Lane
1.2. Brown's Town Constabulary Station 33. Corner of Rope Road & Oxford Road
13. Tower Street and Elletson Road 34. Retirement Road near Retirement Pen
14. Marine Gardens 35. Knutsford Park Gate
15. Spanish Town Road and BeestonStreet 36. King's House Gate
1(). Parade, by Parish Church 37. Bedford Park Gate on the Constant
17. Princess and Harbottr Street11 Spring Line near Sandy Gully
18. Prinuess a.n.d West Queen Streets 38. Bar{>ioan Road
19. Ga.rdner's, Harbour Street 39. Pa.pme Corner
2n. Orange and Charles Streets. 40. Brentrord and Curphey Roads
21. Fro.nklin Town Police Station 41. Grove & Central Ruads, Kencot Lauds
22. Smith Village, Percy and Wellington Sta. 42. Molines Road and Tarra.nt Lane
Collecting boxes have also been erected in Savann&-la-Mar and Port Antonio.