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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
cigars, cigarettes and snuff, unless bona- fide samples or for the personal use of the addressee, who must satisfy the Colonial Customs Authorities as to the facts. The importation of plants, fruits and spirits is subject to special restrictious, and the addressees of parcels containing these articles must make arrangements with the local authorities for delivery.
7.-Letters; potatoes and parts of potatoes, plants and parts of plants, from the United States of America; trick cigars; patent medicines and medical appliances, and circulars relating thereto (parcels containing these goods are accept- ed only at sender's risk); imitations of coin and paper money; secret and forbidden arms; essences of distilled spirituous liquors; wines coloured by means of aniline dyes; cracker paper; gold and silver articles not up to the proper standard; saccharine (unless for authorised chemists), vines or parts thereof, including leaves and cuttings; plants unless accom- panied by a phylloxera certificate, cut flowers, seeds, bulbs, grape-stones, vege- tables and fruit (except fresh fruit from America infected with San José 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 sanitary certi- ficate prepared in the country of origin) fresh or preserved (salted, dried, smoked or cooked) meat from extra-European countries. Special to Hungary. Fresh and prepared 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.
7a.-See Portugal.
8.-Letters, rags, shoddy, disused cloth- ing, and loaded dice.
8a.-Same as Spain.
9.-Letters, arms and ammunition, cotton seed.
9a.--Letters.
10.-Letters; game out of season in Belgium; absinthe; air-guns and air-pistols, poignards, bayonets, sword- sticks; saccharine and similar products (unless for authorised chemists and under 4 oz. in weight), fresh ineat except mutton; plants without a phylloxera certificate. Neither paper money nor hand-made lace may be included in uninsured parcels. The precise value of gold, silver, nickel or copper coins and bank-notes having legal currency in Belgium must be shown on the Customs Declarations.
11.-Letters; bulbs of every description, except under special regulations prescribed from time to time by the Colonial Board of Agriculture.
11a.-Letters, arms, alcohol, tobacco, plants, articles of gold or silver, jewels, silver or nickel coins.
12. Same as Austria.
13.-Letters; arms and ammunition ;- parts of vine (except grapes without 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 or money to bearer.
14.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); false money; 'manufactured articles bearing a false trade description; seeds and living or dried plants, originat- ing 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 documentary evidence (such as certificates of origin) that the contents do not come from any of the countries mentioned. Opium and its preparations can only be imported if addressed to licensed dealers.
15.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); spirits; opium, ganje, charas, bhang, cannabis indica; parts of dutiable articles (except by permission of the Governor).
16.-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 a like nature or use, such as saxin, &c., or mixtures of the same; rags, shoddy, dis- used clothing and bedding; coin or bullion. (unless clearly intended for purposes of ornament).
17.-Letters; tobacco; opium and foreign
coin.
18. Same as Straits Settlements.
19.-Letters; arms and ammunition of war; worn clothes and boots intended for sale; foreign copper or silver coins; lottery tickets; playing cards; geranium oil; cotton oil and essence of vinegar, except for industrial purposes; essence of wine alcohol from plums; adulterated beeswax; foreign products not provided with trade marks or which bear the trademark of a manufacturer residing in Bulgaria; un- authorised weights and measures, parts of vine; tools used in vine-culture; meat of all kinds (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate of origin); trees, shrubs, plants (unless accompanied by a
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