NEW ZEALAND
LETTER POST
Overseas Post 181
Postage:
Surface
Air mail
Letters Postcards
Letters Postcards
First oz., 20c., 15c.
each oz. after, 15c.
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, air and surface, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, air and surface, limit $1,840. (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 and one non-adhesive form, (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 and Tokelau (or Union) Group see New Zealand Island Territories.
PARCEL POST
Postage:
Surface
Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. Tilb. 221b.
$5.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 17.00
Air mail Each lb., $8.00
Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $800.
Custonis declaration: One adhesive form.
Prohibitions: Letters; cooking utensils, made wholly or partly of lead or a lead alloy.
Restrictions apply to the importation of: Articles bearing the Royal Arms or the New Zealand Coat of Arms; bees and bee-keeping appliances; 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 (see Restrictions under LETTER POST); coins; dangerous drugs; firearms; second-hand clothing, except gifts for personal use; skins; feathers or eggs of birds; toilet articles made of animal hair; veterinary biologics.
Gift parcels not exceeding £2 in value are admitted free of duty. Import licences are required by recipients where the value of the parcel exceeds £10. The customs declaration form should be clearly marked Unsolicited gift.
Customs duty: Advertising matter (catalogues, price lists and so on) is subject to customs duty under the New Zealand customs tariff; but trade catalogues and price lists relative to the goods of firms or persons having no established business in New Zealand are not liable to duty.