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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE
236.—Parcels Post.—Rates of Postage, &c. :—Continued
DESTINATION
"Mashonaland
ROUTE
OF TRANSMISSION
RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEEDING
1 lb. 2 lb. 3 lb. '4 lb. |5 lb.
c.8 c.8 c.8 c. 3 c.
LIMIT OF
INQURANIC
1
Raratonga and Samoa......
via Sydney
90] 1.75|2,60 3.45| 4.30||
Rhodesia (atbland
via London
1.65 3.20 4.75 6.30 7.85
Roumania
Do.
1.40 1.40 1.40 2.00 2.00 20
LIMIT OF SIZE
(Same as United Kingdom
Do.
Same as Austria)
Russia in Eurepe)
(including Finland).. }
Do.
1.40 1.40 1.40 2.00 2.00 120
St. Helena and Tris-
tan d'Acunha
Do.
85 85
861.70 1.70 50
Salonica
Do.
Salvador
Do.
Servia
Do.
1.40 1.40 1.40 2.00 2.00 2.10 2.10 2.10 3.75 3.75) 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.85 1.85 20
Seychelles
via Calcutta
Sierra Leone Senyrna
via London
60 1.10 1.60 2,10| 2.60| 85 85 85 1.70 1.70 50
20
Spain
Do.
Straits Settlemenst
Do.
Do.
1.40 1.40 1.40|1.70 1.70) German Packet 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00
| 1
Same as United
Kingdom
Same as Austria
Same as Aden Same as United Kingdom
Same as Argen-|
tine
Direct
50 50 50 1.00 1.00 50
Same as I'kong
1.00 1.00 1.00 1.85 1.85 120 German Packet 1.10 2.10 2.10 2.10 2.10
Sweden
via London
Do.
via London
Switzerland
and France
via London
Do.
and Belgium
Do.
Transvaal
1.16 1.10 1.10 1.70 1.70 20
(1.25|1.251.25 1.85 1.85 120 German Packet 1.701.70 1.70 1.70 1.70
751,45 2.15/2.85| 3.55|
via London
PROHIBITED Contents
Letters.
Same as British Bechuana-
land.
Letters, tobacco, plants (except seeds and dried roots), arms, ammuni. tion, bronze coins, patent| medicines.
Letters, planta, objects from which liquid or fat exudes, Russian coins of small value, gold or silverį articles not up the pro- per standard, lottery tickets, wooden pipe|
stems.
`Gold(unless manufactured)
ostrich feathers, spirits. Same as Beyrouth. Letters.
Letters, vines.
(Letters, gold, silver, jewel-
lery.
Same as Beyrouth
Letters,
armis, ammuni- tion, maps, missals, plants, rosaries, relics, gold, silver, jewellery. (Letters, liquid (unless sec- curely packed, dutiable articles, dangerous arti- cles, articles likely to infure other articles, Letters, cold, silver,
drugs.
Same as Austria{
Same as Austria! Letters, plants, alcohol.
Same as United Kingdom
(Letters, money, precious stones, articles of gold, in addition to the articles inadmissible to Cape Colony and Natal, Trinidad: Letters, duti able articles, spirits, gunga, bhang, cannabis Indica, opiumi. Tobago............
Same as France.
Trinidad and Tobago ..
Do.
85 85 851.70 1.70) 190
Do.
Tripoli (Africa)... Turkey (French and Australian P. O.'s....
Do.
Do.
1.25 1.25 1.251.85 1,85 |1.50 1.50 1,50|2.05 2.05| 20
Same as Argentine Do.
Letters, tobacco, firearms,
Letters, liquide, lottery
Uruguay.
Do.
|2.00 2.60 2.60 3.00 3.00|
Do.
T
tickets, orchilia, litmus, plants.
Venezuela
WINDWARD ISLANDS :-
Do.
|2,20 2.20 2-20, 2,75 2.75|
-
Do.
30212
Greneda and St.
Vincent......
Do.
85 85 85|1.70 1.70]
St. Lucia
Zanzibar
Do.
via Calcutta
via London
001.10) 602.10 2.60] 320
Same as United Kingdom Same as Aden
84 25 85 1.70 1.70 1201 Same as United
Kingdom
Letters, dangerous articles,}
liquids (unless securely packed), cocoa-nut oil, brandy, cotton, starch, indigo, sugar, сосоз, coffee, syrup of sugar or honey, salt-meat, match sticks, salt, sarsaparilla, coins, dies for making coins, arms, lead, salt- petre. Unmanufactured tobacco
(Greneda only).
4
Letters, worn clothes if in-
tended for sale,
[The maximum weight of parcels is 11 lb. Rates are only given above for parcels up to 5 lb., an abbreviation rendered necessary through want of space.]