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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-FROHIBITED CONTENTS
92.-Letters; lottery tickets; arms and ammunition; tobacco, salt, petrol and al- cohol unless with the consent of the Ad- ministration of Monopolies; saccharine, medicines and drugs not addressed to chemists; pharmaceutical products not in the official pharmacopoeia; colours (with certain exceptions), used clothing or linen. Meat, fresh or prepared, and animal pro- ducts of all kinds are subject to sanitary regulations.
93.--Letters; arms and ammunition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
94.-Letters, old clothing, sacks and sacking.
95.-Poisons (except under special licence).
96.-General: Letters; specie; bullion; gold-dust; nuggets; ostrich fealthers, except when made up into stoles, boas, hats, &c.; eucalyptus, acacia and coniferous plants; peach stones. Importers of fire- arms (except shot guns, roof rifles and revolvers for the Union of South Africal must present a permit from the Colonia) Government concerned. Additional (except Rhodesia): Precious stones, whether loose or set in articles of jewellery; tobacco stalks; all stone fruits; bees; honey; old appliances, &c., for bee keeping. Eau de Cologne (Basutoland only). All plants, fruits, tubers, bulbs, etc., are liable to inspection and precautionary fumigation at the expense of the addressees, and to destruction if pest or disease is found. Importers of any of these articles or of cotton seed, beeswax, foundation comb or poium (which is admitted for medicinal purposes only) must present special permits from the proper South African Authority. In the case of plants permits are not generally issued for kinds procurable in the Union of South Africa. Potatoes are only admitted when accom- panied by a sworn declaration of origin and a prescribed Government certification. Additional (Rhodesia only)-(a) Southern and Northern Rhodesia: stone fruit trees grown in any part of North America where either peach yellows or peach rosette exists; young rooted plants for budding or grafting purposes, except pear, plum, apricot, cherry, mango, apples (blight proof). (b) Southern Rhodesia only: Importers of plants, which are sub- ject to special conditions, must present a permit from the Gevernment of Southern Rhodesia. Parcels irregularly imported are liable to detention or destruction. (c) Northern Rhodesia only: Seeds and plants must be accompanied by a certi- ficate of origin.
97.-Letters, coins, firearms and amruni- tion, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries,. relics, &c., pharmaceutical preparations or patent medicines of unknown composition of which the prescription has not been published, wax vestas and all kinds of matches, substances containing saccharine. unmanufactured tobacco seed and juice, plants unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate, to which, if in English, a French or Spanish version should be appended, gold, silver (including articles mounted with these metals), jewellery,. playing cards, &c. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together. As regards plums, sardines, &c.,. sent via France, see France.
98.-Letters, spirits and bhang, firearms,. parts of firearms and ammunition, except under permit; and, unless addressed to the Principal Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, opium, morphia, morphine, cocaine, hypodermic syringes and other instruments or parts of instruments for hypodermic injection, including hypoder- mic needles. Drugs should be fully described in the Customs Declaration; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examination.
99.-Letters; manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness; some pharmaeutical products and arsenic, unless addressed to a State Pharmacy or to specially authorised persons; articles made abroad which bear the name of a place, property, manufactory or tradesman in Sweden, or any marking in Swedish to explain the nature of the goods must bear the word import or the name and domicile of the foreign manufacturer, applied conspicuously and indelibly. Goods which. do not comply with this regulation are- confiscated.
100.-Letters, newspapers and post cards intended for distribution; Italian, 1 and 2 franc pieces, glassware with Swiss. Federal or Cantonal gauge marks; salt, unless with the permission of Cantonal authorities; alcohol, unless addressed to- Federal authority, and other spirits, unless. gross weight and percentage of alcohol are shown on the Customs Declaration; earth. compost, grapes addressed to places in the Canton Valais, grapes addressed to other parts of Switzerland (unless accompanied by a special permit from the Federal De- partment of Agriculture); vines and parts thereof, other plants and bulbs (unless ac- companied by a phylloxera certificate and special permit from the Federal Depart- ment of agriculture); birds of many kinds, meat prepared with colouring or preserva- tive matter; fresh sausages and similar