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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

101.-Parcels for the United Kingdom may be insured at the following rates:--

C.

$

25 fee 20

50

40

75

60

$

$ c.

100 fee 125 150

80

1.00

1.20

"

$

$ c.

175 fee 1.40 200

1.80

31

$ C.

$

225 fee 1.80

250

2.00

**

Prohibited Contents.

Coins, arms, ammunition, medicines, plants, vines, gold, silver, jewellery, lace. Letters, vine plants, gold,

silver, jewellery.

Letters, lottery tickets. Letters, coins, tobacco,

vines, plants.

Letters, firearins, tobacco.

foreign

tickets, plants.

Letters, lottery

lottery

tickets,

coins, arms, ammunition,

t'bacco, plants, vines, drugs. į

Letters, liquids.

Letters, plants, arms and implements of war, artic- les injurious to health. Letters, liquids, arms.

Letters.

Firearms, tobacco, salt.

Letters, lottery tickets, pro-

spectuses.

Letters, arms, spirits, coins. Letters, arms, ammunition, medicines, foreign bronze coins, plants, gold, silver. Letters, arms, am:nunition,

tobacco, plants, vines, │ gold, silver, jewellery, lace. Letters, tobacco, salt, fire-

BRITISH PACKET, vid London.

105.-TO THE CONTINENT OF Europe and FOREIGN COUNTRIES.:—

To

GERMAN PACKET. Direct.

0 to 2 mb.

2 to 7 ib.

7 to 11 lb. 0 to 7 lb. 0 to 11 fb.

$ c.

$ c.

C.

C.

Algeria and Corsica, §

1.20

1.70

Argentine Republic, §

1.40

1.40

Austro-Hungary

1.10

1.60

1.20

Azores Is.,

1.40

1.90

Belgium,

1.00

1.50

2.00

1.20

Letters.

Beyrout,

0.00

1.60

2.30

Bosnia, Herzegovina & Novi

Bazar,

1.30

1.90

Letters,

Bulgaria,

1.40

1.90

Cameroons,

1.60

2.10

Chili, §

1.90

2.40

Colombia,

1.40

2.40

3.20

Congo Free State,

1.10

1.30

1.60

Constantinople,

0.70

1.50

2.20

Costa Rica,

1.30

2.20

3.00

Danish West Indies,

1.20

1.90

2.70

Letters, arms.

Letters.

Denmark,

1.10

1.60

1.20

Finland, §

1.10

3.10

France,

1.00

1.50

1.20

French Colonies, ‡ §

1.70

2.20

French & Austrian Offices

1.40

1.90

in Turkey, §

Germany,

1.00

1.50

Greek Ports(vid Hamburg), §

1.20

1.40

Heligoland,

1.00

1.50

Holland,

1.00

1.50

2.00

1.20

Italy § (vid France),

1.10

1.60

Luxemburg,

1.00

1.50

2.10

1.20

Madeira,

1.00

1.00

Mauritius, **

1.20

1.50

Letters.

Norway,

1.00

1.50

2.00

1.50

Letters.

Portugal (via Lisbon),

1.20

1.70

1.60

Letters,

Roumania,

1.30

1.80

Samos and Tonga,

1.70

2.80

Servia,

1.30

1.80

Seychelles,

1.20

1.50

Smyrna,

0.70

1.50

2.20

Spain, §

1.20

1.70

1.40

Sweden,

1.00

1.70

1.50

Switzerland,

1.10

1.60

1.20

Tahiti, §

2.20

8.30

Uruguay,

1.00

1.60

1.10

§ Parcels must not exceed 2 ft. in length, or 4 ft. in length and girth combined.

arms,

Letters, plants with roots, vines or parts of vines, socialistic books.

Letters, plants, dangerous

articles, liquids,gold, silver, jewellery.

Same as Germany.

Letters.

Letters, tobacco, vines

or

parts of vines, arms, che- mical compounds, rags. Letters.

Letters, coins, tobacco.

vines, plants.

coins, tobacco,

vines, plants.

Letters, plants(except seeds

and dried roots).

Same as Germany.

Letters, vines.

Letters, gold, silver, jewel-

lery.

Letters, materials for gun-

powder, plants, arms, to- Бассо.

Letters, arms, ammunition,

books, maps, planta, ro- saries, relics.

Letters, gold, silver, drugs. Letters.

Letters, gold, silver, jewellery Letters, lottery tickets, li-

quids, vines.

↑ Diego Suarez, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Nossi-Bé, Réunion, 9. Maric

de Madagascar, Senegal, Tripoli, Tunis.

** Parcels must not exceed 3 feet 6 inches in length, or 6 feet in greatest length and girth combined.

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