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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
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 Portuguese 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; arms (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 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;
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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.
90.-Letters, arms, ammunition, air- guns, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, ap- paratus 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).
91a.-Letters, opium, morphine, cocaine. 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. Meat, fresh or prepared, and animal pro- ducts of all kinds are subject to sanitary regulations.
93.-Letters, arms, opium.
93a.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee), liquids.
94.-Letters, old clothing, counterfeit coin, foreign goods bearing a false trade- mark of a manufactory established in the United Kingdom.
95.-Poisons (except under special licence).
96.-Letters, coins, firearms and ammuni- 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 pub- lished, wax vestas and all kinds of matches, substances containing saccharine, unmanu- factured tobacco, 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