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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
79.-Letters, pharmaceutical prepara- tions unless addressed to persons authorized by law to buy, sell or receive such articles.
SO.-Letters; coin; cotton seed, unless originating in Egypt or addressed to the Director of Agriculture when intended for experimental purposes, potato seed; seeds or plants of the albizzia tree, unless originating in Australia; seeds or living or dried plants originating in Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, Dutch East Indies, Guatemala, Central
Central American States, Mauritius, Zanzibar, German East Africa Congo Free State and Natal may only be imported on' production at the Zomba Post Office of a special permit signed by the Governor of the Protectorate.
81.-Letters, articles of gold and silver, jewellery, &c., corrosive fluids.
82.-Letters, arms, ammunition, aniline colours, publications offensive to good manners or opposed to the Mussulman religion. (See also India.)
83.-Same as United States.
84.--Letters, tobacco (manufactured or unmanufactured), living plants or parts of plants (except bulbs or seeds) unless accompanied by a proper certificate that the district from which they are sent is free from phylloxera, either sporadic or epidemic; unstamped playing cards, manu- scripts (except bound commercial books or the minutes of a Society or Company, or invoices relating to the contents of the parcel); foreign products bearing trade marks in contravention of existing laws; books contravening the Portugues copy- right laws; articles bearing the Red Cross sign, unless addressed to the Red Cross Society at Lisbon; medicine (unless ac- companied by the prescription); coin; unobliterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper; bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer can only be sent in insured parcels. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together.
85.-Same as Portugal, with the excep tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited.
86.-See South Africa, British.
87.-Letters; ikons (religious images or pictures), photographs and reproductions of works representing scenes from foreign history; copper, nickel, silver and gold coins not current in Roumania (except antique coins); coins intended for purposes of orna- ment; soiled paper; cotton waste; coffee prepared with colouring matter; (unless accompanied by a permit for their transit through Austria, to be obtained from the "Bezerkshaupt-manschaft" of the district in which the Austrian Customs Office of entry is situated), and ammunition; colouring matter and essences
arms
used for the manufacture or adulteration of wine or brandy; saccharine (unless for authorised chemists); patent medicines and pharmaceutical preparations (except to authorised institutions); trees and plants of all kinds (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate countersigned by a Roumanian consul); tobacco in any form, cigarette papers, playing cards, salt, and mineral waters, weights and measures of any kind are only admitted by special permission.
88.-Letters; used Russian postage stamps; labels not sent with the goods to which they apply; rags and old clothes sent as merchandise, and unmanufactured animal products (unless accompanied by a proper certificate of disinfection), plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate. One certificate suffices for 3 uninsured parcels for same addressee); all parts of the vine except grapes; small silver and copper coins, Russian or foreign; gold or silver articles not up to the proper standard; prize coupons; sword-sticks; air-guns; arms (except by special permis- sion to be obtained by the addressee): playing cards; unauthorised medicines; articles coloured with arsenical dyes; aniline and similar dyes except in crystal form; margarine products; swine's flesh, and all its products, except lard; artificial saffron; compounds described as "tea" but containing mixtures of other herbs; and, to Finland, brandy; poisons; pota- toes; alcoholic varnish; articles of celluloid except in wooden boxes.
89.-Letters (except one for the, addressee).
90.-Letters, arms, except revolvers of calibre less than .44, air-guns, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, apparatus for coining
money.
91.-Letters, opium as an article of consumption (except for the Government); firearms, ammunition, air-guns, and air- pistols (except for the use of the Govern- ment or with its written authority).
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 pharinacopoeia; colours (with certain exceptions), used clothing or linen. Ment, 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.