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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-PROHIBIBITED CONTENTS
scale) are not prohibited. Table grapes are only admissible if packed in well- protected crates or baskets. Pigs' flesh, bacon and sausages from the United States of America (unless accompanied by a the sanitary certificate prepared in country of origin); flesh or preserved (salted, dried, smoked or cooked) meat from extra-European countries.
Special to Hungary.-Fresh and prepar- ed meat coming from countries outside Europe, except by permission of the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture, but this permission is not necessary in the case of pork, lard and sausages coming from the United States of America.
8.-Letters, rags, shoddy, disused cloth- ing, and loaded dice.
9.-See South Africa-Union of.
1-Letters; absinthe; air-guns and air-pistols, poignards, bayonets, sword- sticks; saccharine and similar products (unless for authorised chemists and under 40z. in weight), flesh meat except mutton; plants without a phylloxera certificate. Neither paper money nor hand-made lace may be in luded in uninsured parcels.
II.-Letters; bulbs of every description, except under special regulations prescribed from time to time by the Colonial Board of Agriculture.
12-Letters; leaf tobacco, salt, plants, printing type, celluloid, chlorate of potas sium, foreign silver coins, lottery tickets, patent medicines, firearms, rags, disused and filthy clothing and bedding. Books, magazines, and newspapers should not be sent by Parcel Post.
13--Same as Austria-Hungary.
without 14.-Letters; arms and ammunition; parts of vine (except grape leaves); plants; medicine (unless accom- panied by the prescription); coin; un- obliterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer.
15.-False money; manufactured articles bearing a false trade description; seeds and living or dried plants, originating in India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, the Dutch East Indies, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Natal, German East Africa and Central American States can only be imported if a special permit be obtained from the Governor. All parcels containing seeds or plants should be accompanied by do- cumentary evidence (such as certificates of origin) that the contents do not come from any of the countries mentioned. The only places for which parcels containing coin, bullion, jewellery, articles of gold or silver, or precious stones will be accepted are Mombasa, Kilindini, and Lamu, and
such parcels must be insured.
16.-Spirits; opium, ganjo, cheras, bhang, cannabis indica; parts of dutiable articles (except by permission of the Governor).
1.Letters; tobacco packed with other goods; tobacco sweetened with the leaves of trees or plants other than the tobacco plant saccharine, and other substances of à like nature or use, such as saxin, &e, or mixtures of the same; rags, shoddy, is- used clothing and bedding; coin or bullion (unless clearly intended for purposes of ornament).
18.-Letters; tobacco; opium and foreign
coin.
19.-Same as Straits Settlements.
20.-Letters; and ammunition of war; worn clothes and boots intended for sale; foreign copper or silver coins; geranium oil, cotton oil and essence of vinegar except for industrial purposes; essence of wine; alcohol from plums: adulterated beeswax; meat of all kinds (unless accom- panied by a sanitary certificate of origin) ; trees, shrubs, plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate; vegetables, flowers, leaves, roots, cuttings of trees, grapes, parts of vine tools used in vine- culture, manures, soiled paper of any kind or old printed papers. The importation of wax candles, fishing nets, saccharine, treacle, medicines and poisonous drugs is subject to special conditions.
21.-Letters, oleomargarine, butterine, and similar substitutes for butter.
22.-Same as Portugal (with the excep- tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited).
23.-Letters, liquids, worn clothing; opium (except for medical purposes), fire arms (except those intended for the per- sonal use of persons other than natives), unless sent with the written permission of the local authorities.
23a.---Current coin, counterfeit money; arms and ammunition by way of mer- chandise, except by licence or authority of the Governor. Parts sent separately of articles liable to Customs duty, ganja bhang.
24.-Letters, arms and implements of war, articles injurious to health. Plants are accepted at sender's risk.
25.-Letters, notes, explosive or inflam- mable material, opium, morphia, arms and ammunition.
26.-Letters, opium, morphia morphine and cocaine.
27.--Letters, arms, ammunition. 28.-Same as Japan except that tobacc is admitted.
29.-Same as France, except as regard tobacco, of which the importation permitted.
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