Page 105 - Jamaica PO Guide 1952

OVEilSJ::.\ S ~ ~ O~ I~Y OllDEHS 107

Telegraph Money Orders
The Postmnster General may issue and pay Post Office telegraph money orders for sums
not exceeding forty pounds to and from the UniteJ Kingdom respectively.
The charges for telegraph money orders issued in this Island shall be-
(a) commission nt the ordinary rate for money on.lers issued for payrncnL iu
the United Kingdom; and
(b) a charge for the telegram of mh•ice at the ordinary or "lcUcr tclCJ,'l'IIOI"
rate fur tclcgr::tms addressed to the United 1\ingdom.
On puyirl'g for the additional words required the remitter of a lelcgrnph money order
mlly add t.o the telegram or advice nny short. rommunicatioo, in Engli::;h, which he nmy
wish to t~entl to the payee, and may also if he so dc:;ires prepay the cost of n tclcgruphic
reply to such communication.
The remitter of a telegraph money order shull defr::ty all expenses aud hear nil losses
resulting from the address or lbe telegram or ndvice or thnt of the paye-e bring incorrect
or insufficient to ensure due payment to the proper person .
.
If the remitter intends that a money order shall be called for at a post office, the word:~
P0::1tc Rcstante shall be \Hitten i0:1tead or an address after the pnyee's name. Tn the
absence of these word:!, it shall be assumed that the onJer is to be sent out for delh·cry.
The Postmaster General shall supply Utc remitter with an advice of payment on pay-
ment of a fee of threepence. lf the remitter clu:;ircs that o. request for an advice of pay-
ment be communicated to the offire of payment in the telegram of advice, he slmll nlsO
pay the cost of including the words "advise payment".
Tolcgt'llph money orders mny be sent from the General Post Office, 1\ingPton, or from
any other Money Order Office in the Tslantl through the medium of the Ucncrnl Post
Office, Kingston.
Telegraph money orders may be paid ut any rnoney order office in the Tslnnd.
The provisions of these Regulations t·elating to foreign money orders shall apply (bO
far as t.hcy arc apJ>licable) to telegraph moncyorclcrsexchanged with the United Kingdom.
The Postmnster General shall not be liable for any loss or damage which mny he in·
curred or :~ustained by reason or on account of any mb;take or default in the transmis..ion
or delivery of a teleb'Taph money order.
POSTAL ORDERS
Amou11ta of Pour1daye: Postal Orders arc sold nnd cnshed at all Po.;t Omccs in
Jamaica, ami in the British Empire, ·except Australia and Canarla. These orders nre
printed on a ptlper bearing an "all-over'' water mnrk consisting of the Royal Ciphcr- n
crown ami the letter::~ G. V.R., and they measure slightly less than 7 ins. in length.
The commissions charged on orders issued nre as follows:-
At6cl. lrl.
At 1/- . l~d.
At 1J6d., 2/6d., 3/·, 3/6d., -1/·, ·1/6<1., 51- 2d.
At 7/6d., 8/-, 10/- :Jd.
At 20/· .. <t!d.
Posta!}t Stamps a.Dizcd to Postal Orders: Postage stamps of the following Dominion.::,
Colonies, etc., are recognised when properly affixed by lhe senders t.o the face of British
Postal Or\lcr issued in the respecli ve tcrri tories, provided that. the stamps do not. c.xcced
two in number and (a) 5d. in total v11lue 0 11 un order of denominulions up to and in-
cludiug 4/!id., (b) lld. in total value on uu order of denomiualions aho,·e ·1/Gd.:-
~ Aden, Anguilla, Antigua, Bahomus, Barbados, Dasut.oland, Bechuan::tlund Prou.'c-toralc,
Bormuda, Br-iLish Guiana, British Tiondurns, Brunei, Burma, Cayman lslunds, Ccylon,
Cook Tslllncls, Cyprus, Domini<'Jl, Palklnnd T~:~lunds, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast,
G1·cnndu, Hong Kong, India (including Indian Post Offires on the Persinn Gulf and in
Tibet), hnq, I r1sh Republic, Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika,l\lalaya, l\laltn, l\tnuritius,
1\lonlserrnt., l\lorocco (British Agenries ut Tangier and Tetuan), Nevis, New Zealand,
Nigeria, North Borneo, Northern H.hodcsia, Nyasaland, Pakistan, Samoo, St. J\ilts,
St. Lttcia, St. Vincent, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland Pro-
tectorate, Southern Rhodesia, South Afri<'a, Union of SouU1 West Afyica, Swaziland,
Tonga Islands, Tortola (British Virgin Island), Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos
Islands, Zanzibar.