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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

236.—Parcels Post.—Rates of Postage, &c. :—Continued

DESTINATION

"Mashonaland

ROUTE

OF TRANSMISSION

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEEDING

1 lb. 2 lb. 3 lb. '4 lb. |5 lb.

c.8 c.8 c.8 c. 3 c.

LIMIT OF

INQURANIC

1

Raratonga and Samoa......

via Sydney

90] 1.75|2,60 3.45| 4.30||

Rhodesia (atbland

via London

1.65 3.20 4.75 6.30 7.85

Roumania

Do.

1.40 1.40 1.40 2.00 2.00 20

LIMIT OF SIZE

(Same as United Kingdom

Do.

Same as Austria)

Russia in Eurepe)

(including Finland).. }

Do.

1.40 1.40 1.40 2.00 2.00 120

St. Helena and Tris-

tan d'Acunha

Do.

85 85

861.70 1.70 50

Salonica

Do.

Salvador

Do.

Servia

Do.

1.40 1.40 1.40 2.00 2.00 2.10 2.10 2.10 3.75 3.75) 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.85 1.85 20

Seychelles

via Calcutta

Sierra Leone Senyrna

via London

60 1.10 1.60 2,10| 2.60| 85 85 85 1.70 1.70 50

20

Spain

Do.

Straits Settlemenst

Do.

Do.

1.40 1.40 1.40|1.70 1.70) German Packet 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00

| 1

Same as United

Kingdom

Same as Austria

Same as Aden Same as United Kingdom

Same as Argen-|

tine

Direct

50 50 50 1.00 1.00 50

Same as I'kong

1.00 1.00 1.00 1.85 1.85 120 German Packet 1.10 2.10 2.10 2.10 2.10

Sweden

via London

Do.

via London

Switzerland

and France

via London

Do.

and Belgium

Do.

Transvaal

1.16 1.10 1.10 1.70 1.70 20

(1.25|1.251.25 1.85 1.85 120 German Packet 1.701.70 1.70 1.70 1.70

751,45 2.15/2.85| 3.55|

via London

PROHIBITED Contents

Letters.

Same as British Bechuana-

land.

Letters, tobacco, plants (except seeds and dried roots), arms, ammuni. tion, bronze coins, patent| medicines.

Letters, planta, objects from which liquid or fat exudes, Russian coins of small value, gold or silverį articles not up the pro- per standard, lottery tickets, wooden pipe|

stems.

`Gold(unless manufactured)

ostrich feathers, spirits. Same as Beyrouth. Letters.

Letters, vines.

(Letters, gold, silver, jewel-

lery.

Same as Beyrouth

Letters,

armis, ammuni- tion, maps, missals, plants, rosaries, relics, gold, silver, jewellery. (Letters, liquid (unless sec- curely packed, dutiable articles, dangerous arti- cles, articles likely to infure other articles, Letters, cold, silver,

drugs.

Same as Austria{

Same as Austria! Letters, plants, alcohol.

Same as United Kingdom

(Letters, money, precious stones, articles of gold, in addition to the articles inadmissible to Cape Colony and Natal, Trinidad: Letters, duti able articles, spirits, gunga, bhang, cannabis Indica, opiumi. Tobago............

Same as France.

Trinidad and Tobago ..

Do.

85 85 851.70 1.70) 190

Do.

Tripoli (Africa)... Turkey (French and Australian P. O.'s....

Do.

Do.

1.25 1.25 1.251.85 1,85 |1.50 1.50 1,50|2.05 2.05| 20

Same as Argentine Do.

Letters, tobacco, firearms,

Letters, liquide, lottery

Uruguay.

Do.

|2.00 2.60 2.60 3.00 3.00|

Do.

T

tickets, orchilia, litmus, plants.

Venezuela

WINDWARD ISLANDS :-

Do.

|2,20 2.20 2-20, 2,75 2.75|

-

Do.

30212

Greneda and St.

Vincent......

Do.

85 85 85|1.70 1.70]

St. Lucia

Zanzibar

Do.

via Calcutta

via London

001.10) 602.10 2.60] 320

Same as United Kingdom Same as Aden

84 25 85 1.70 1.70 1201 Same as United

Kingdom

Letters, dangerous articles,}

liquids (unless securely packed), cocoa-nut oil, brandy, cotton, starch, indigo, sugar, сосоз, coffee, syrup of sugar or honey, salt-meat, match sticks, salt, sarsaparilla, coins, dies for making coins, arms, lead, salt- petre. Unmanufactured tobacco

(Greneda only).

4

Letters, worn clothes if in-

tended for sale,

[The maximum weight of parcels is 11 lb. Rates are only given above for parcels up to 5 lb., an abbreviation rendered necessary through want of space.]