HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
parts of plants and flowers are subject to special and can restrictions, be sent by Parcel Post only at the sender's risk.
103a.-Same as Tripoli.
104.-Letters, foreign reprints of British copyright works. Acetylene, saccharine, base coins. Foreign coin other than gold or silver, tobacco except for personal use, and coin or bullion over £5 in value or 8 ozs. in weight.
104a. Saine as Turkey.
105.
Same as viá London.
106. In addition to those articles which are specified in Postal Guide, Rules 173 and 174, as excluded from trans mission by Foreign and Colonial Post, the undermen- tioned articles are prohibited from importation into the United States: Letters, eatables, ox-hides, prison-made wares, wines, spirits, cigars and cigarettes unless sent in quantities numbering at least 3,000 in a single package (see Observations); wines and spirits may be sent in bottles, but Customs duty will be charged as if each parcel contained not less than 12 bottles. Opium containing less than 9 per cent. of morphine, casks of wine and spirits containing less than 14 gallons.
107.--Letters, liquids or semi-liquids, orchilla or litmus and its derivatives, plants or living parts of plants, grapes, game, gold or silver coins (except ancient coins intended for collections, which are admitted up to the number of 10 per parcel).
108.-Letters, cocoanut oil, starch, indigo, cocoa, coffee, syrup, honey, dried and salted meat, salt, sarsaparilla roots, silver, nickel and copper coins, dies for coining, cigarette paper, cigarettes of all sorts and machines for making them and empty cigarette boxes or packets unless addressed to the National Cigarette Factory, and (via France) gold, silver, jewellery, &c. As regards plums, sardines, &c., via France, see France.
109.-Transmission of dutiable articles is prohibited except by Parcels Post; any articles which contravene this regulation are confiscated.
109a.-Opium or Letters.
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110.-Letters (except one for the addressee) Salt which has been used in curing fish.
111.-General: Letters; specie; bullion; gold-dust; nuggets; ostrich feathers, except when made up into stoles, boas, hats, &c.; eucalyptus, acacia and coniferous plants; peach stones. Importers of fire- arms (except shot guns, rook rifles and revolvers for the Union of South Africa) must present a permit from the Colonial 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 opiun (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 accoin- 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). Gum-opium, extract of opium, poppies or preparations of poppies are only admitted for medicinal purposes and on presentation by the importers of a perinit from the proper Rhodesian authority. (b) Southern Rhodesia only: Importers of plants, which are subject to special conditions, must present a perniit from the Government 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.