Page 67 - Jamaica PO Guide 1934

MONE Y OHDI.mS. 63
MONEY ORDERS.

~ loncy Orders arc issued ut the Head Onico, Kingston, and nt t he Post Offices of
the capital of ~11ch pa rish. Applicnt ions for money orders addressed to lbe PMtm•sf~r
for Jamaica or ton Postmaster arc free of postage. (The registration fee of 2d. must,,
howcv<'r, be prepaid.)
The commission on money orders dr~wn on • Gre·1t Britain, (including North-
<rn Ire! nd). United States of Americ~, Canal Zone. C:on •dn and )/rwfnundland,
:
and any other country except those named in t he following sentence is si~pence for
the first £ and l hrcopencc for each ndditionnl £or fraotional pnrl. The commission on
Money Orders drawn on * Trinidad, *Barbados, *British Guiana, • \Vindw1rd nnd
• Leeward Islands, • T urks Island, * Cayroan Islands, • Bermuda, • B•1 h1rnas, ftnd
• J.lritish Honduras, is sixpence for first £2 and t wo pence for each addition:li £ or
fractional part.
The limit amount for money orders drawn on Gre:1t Brit in. Barbados, Trinidad,
Brit ish Guinna, the Windward lslnnds, the Leeward Islands, British Honduras, B~rmuda,
Bahamas, T urks Islnnd and Cayman Islands is £40, and on United States of Amen co,
Can& In, Newfoundland, Canal Zone and Philippine Islands, $100.
No application can be entertained for compensation for a lleged injury from t be non-
p3ymcnl of a money order at lhe expected time. W hen a money order is applied for
i( must be on the clear understanding that no such claim will be allowed, and Lh1t I he
Post Office is not liable, under nny circumstances, t·o more than one payment of a money
order, even when, notwithstanding the precautions that MO !.nkcn, the order has been
p:dd to a person not entit led t o receive the money.
Re-payment to t he remitter of a money order cannot be made until the chief office
of the paying count ry has been communicated with.
A Through Money Order Exchange a lso exists between Jamaica and c~rtain British
colonies and foreign countries vi , t he United ICingdom. Such through money orders
are subject on payment to a deduction of two pence for each £1 with a minimum charge
of four-pence. '/'lte full name und addreas of the pc•yee of a t hrough money order must
be gi,•en to enable the Chief Money Order Office, London, l'> h rwnd to the payee a
money order for the net a mount payable, the money order issuP.d to the remit ter being
only of value as a receipt for t be amount paid and should be retained by the remitte1.
The following is a partial List of British Cownies, Protectorates, and Postal Agencies
abroad and of the Principal Foreign Countrie$ to which Money Orders may be sent through
London. t
• Ascension, Austra lia (Commonwealth of), Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, • Ceylon•
Costa Rica, • Cyprus, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, D~nm1rk . • Eqypt. • Federated Malay
St.ates, • Fiji, France and Algeria. Germany • Gibr:~ltar, • Gold Cons~, Greece. Holland,
Hond uras (Republic of), • Houg Kong, Hungary. • Irish Free Slate. • India and Aden,
It:~ly, • Iraq, Japan, • Kenya. Luxemburg. * J'vJalta , • New Zealand, • Nberia , Norway,
• Nyasaland Protectorate. • Palestine, Poland, Pcrtugal, • Rhodesia, (Nor thern and
Sou thern), Roumania, • Sierra Leone, • South Africa (Union of) Spain, • Sudan, Sweden,
Switzerland, • Tanganyika Territory, • Togoland (Brit;sh), • Uganda , Yugoslavia,
• Zanzibar.
Telegraph :'1o ney Orders .
T he system of Telegraph Money Orders iq in operation between Great Brik in and
Jamaica. The remitter of a Telegraph Mouey Order is required to pay, in addition tn
the l\'I.O. commission. t he cost of t he Telegram of Advice a t t he ordinary rate (2/4) or
• British Postal Orders arc nlso issued and paid in these countries. see" Postal Orders,"
page 64.
For complete lis!, of places in which Money Order& are issued and ]::aid se: latest
edition of London Postal Guide.