(Jewish Daily Bulletin)
A direct exchange of international money orders between the United States and Palestine, has been opened according to the announcement of R. S. Regar, Third Assistant Postmaster General. The text of the announcement states that a direct exchange of international money orders between the United States and Palestine was instituted on April 1.
Beginning April 1 “postmasters will draw money orders intended for payment in that country as Palestine instead of British money orders. They will express the amount in dollars and cents only, deliver the receipt to the remitter, mark the money-order form itself canceled, and send it to the New York exchange office with the duly completed coupon and advice forms. Payment in this country of orders drawn in Palestine will be made by means of money orders reissued by the New York exchange office.
“The subjoined list gives the names of the post offices in Palestine which are authorized to issue and pay international money orders:
“Acre, El Affule, Ajami, Jaffa, Allenby Rd. Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Beisan, Beer Ya’aqov, Bethlehem, Carmel Avenue, Haifa, Gaza, Haifa, Hebron, Hadera, Jaffa, Jenin, Jericho, Jerusalem, Lydda Junction, Lydda, El Majdal, Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, Nablus, Nazareth, Pethah Tiqva, Ram Allah, Er Ramle, Rehovoth, Rishon le Ziyon, Rosh Pinna, Safed, Samakh, Sarafand, Tel Aviv, Tiberias, Tul Karm, Zikhron Ya’aqov.”
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