Overseas Post
153
NEW HEBRIDES (continued)
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 5 lb. (5) Samples, limit 5 lb. (6) Small Packets. (7) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (1) and (6) Green label.
Prohibitions: Plants; playing cards; wedding cake not securely packed in tin boxes,
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Articles of gold; bank-notes, currency notes, documents payable to bearer; coin; insulin; medicines; serums, vaccines and similar preparations.
Printed matter : Printed matter, especially books, is liable to an internal tax, but newspapers and periodicals are exempt.
PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available: None.
Customs declaration: One adhesive form.
Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit); candles; playing cards; saccharin; tobacco essence.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Cut flowers; eggs of game birds during close season; fish and game; fresh fruit; fresh vegetables and potatoes, including seed potatoes; gramophone records; liqueurs and spirits, except gin and whisky of British origin; preserved fish, plums and vegetables; living plants, roots and bulbs, shrubs.
The importation of certain other goods is subject to the production of an import licence, and such goods should not be despatched until the necessary licence has been obtained by the addressee.
Compensation is not payable.
NEW ZEALAND
LETTER POST
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
First oz., 20c., each oz, after, 15c.
15c.
Letters
Postcards
Each oz., $1,30
65c.
Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post (except in insured letters) and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,600. (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,600. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 5 lb. (7) Samples, limit 5 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.
Customs declarations: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) One non-adhesive form. Prohibitions: Except by consent of the Minister of Customs, the importation of printed matter relating to football pools and competitions of a like nature operated outside New Zealand, is prohibited.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Bulbs, fruit, plants and seeds and grain, grain by-products and any plant product in a form suitable for feeding to stock; all meat products.
Customs duty: Advertising matter is subject to customs duty, see under Parcel Post.
Note: For Danger (Pukapuka), Manihiki, Palmerston (Avarua), Penrhyn (Tongareva), Rakahanga, Niue (Savage), Suwarrow see Cook Islands, and for Tokelau or Union Group see Samoa (Territory under New Zealand Administration),
PARCEL POST
Supplemental services available: Insurance, surface only, limit $800 (compensation is not payable for insured parcels containing liquids, semi-liquids, perishable or fragile articles.
Customs declaration: One adhesive form.