Directory_and_Chronicle_1911 — Page 543

OBSERVATIO

PROHIBITED CONTENTS.

DESTINATION.

ROUTE

OF

TRANSMISSION.

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEKDI 4

RATES OF POSTAGE-PARCEL POST.-Continued

LIMITSOFSIZE

lb. 2 lbs.

lbs. 4 lbs. 5 lbs. 6 lbs. | 7 lbs.

lbs. lbs. 10 lbs. 11 lbs..

I

Length

Customs Declaration

Breadth

or Depth Length, & Girth Combd.

$ c.

$ c. * c.

ft. in. ft. in.

Via

(See

London

Adeu

1.45 2.50, 3.56 5.000 6.05

7.10

5.40

8.15/ 9.00 10.65 11.70 12.75 3 0 5.801 6,20 3 6

6 0

A

No parcel may exceed 2500 in!

value

6 0

A

550

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

3.20 2 0 4 0

83

Do. Parcels are delivered by the Railway Com- pany and not by the Post Office. Parcels intended; to be called for should be al dressed

Gare

↑

En

not

"Poste Re stante"

Parcels must be. packed in strong wooden boxes, in metal boxes, or in 4 & leather covering; parcels packed in paper or card board will not be accepted

3.0 3 6 6 0

A

1.90 3 6 6 0

Parcels are de livered on applica- tion by the ad- dressees at the! Customs House

Delivery con fined to principal

2 0 4 0

04

places

only.

Limit of waght|

7 lbs.

Same as Cape Colony

Do.

Letters; absinthe; air-guns and air pistols, poignards, bayonets, swordsticks; FAC- charine and similar products (unless for authorised chemists and under 4oz. in weight),

flesh meat except mutton; plants without a phylloxera certificate. Neither paper money nor hand-made lace may be included in uninsured parcels.

Letters; bulbs of every de- scription, except under special 1egulations

from

prescribed time to time by the Colonial 'Board of Agriculture

Letters; leaf tobacco, salt, plants. printing type, celluloid, chlorate of potassium, foreign silver coins, lottery tickets, patent medicines, firearms, rags, shoddy, disused and filthy clothing and bedding. Books, magazines, and newspapers (should not be sent by Parcel Post

Letters and arms

Belgium

Do.

London German Facke

100

1.70

2.40) 3 0

2,000 3 0

6 0

6 0

C2

C3

Bechuanaland Cape Colony)

Bechuanaland - Protectorate

Do.

Siberia

Do.

:

:

:

22:

:

2.00

Bermuda

London

1.00

:

:

:

:

Beyrout,

Agency

British 7

Egypt

1.0

1.40

Bolivia

London

Bosnia-Herzegovina

2.90

:

1.45

2.15

:

:

2.501 3

СІ

Same as Austria-Hungary