Directory_and_Chronicle_1911 — Page 583

OBSERVATIONS.

PROHIBITED CONTENTS,

c.ft.

ft. in. ft. in.!

1.93 2

4 0.02

3.00

6

3 61

3.15 3 6

C1

RATES OF POSTAGE.-PARCEL POST.-Continued

RATES OF POSTAGE ON PARCELS NOT EXCEEDING

1 lb. 2 lbs. 13 lbs. 4 lbs. 5 lbs. | 6 lbs. | 7 lbs. . 8 lbs. ¡0 lbs. 10 lbs. 11 lbs.

[LIMITOFSIZE.

Customs Declaration,

Leugth.

Breadth or Depth

Length.

& Girth Combd.

ROUTE

DESTINATION.

OF TRANSMISSION.

8 c.

Via

Tahiti (See French Set-

tlements of Oceania),

Tibet (See under India)

Timor (Dilly)

Batavia.

1.60

Tobago

London.

100

Togoland

1.75

"

Tortola (See Leeward,

Islands)

:

*

:

:

1.75

2.00

2.45)

:

590

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE

A

con-

Insurance fined to parcels torj Anecho und Lome.

ונן

neces-

No parcel may exceed $700 value. A charge of] 6d. for stamp duty, clearance, xo., is

levid on every dati-] able parcel. Far

procedure sary to secure a rebatef Custom-l Duty en British Goods, See Capel Colony. Express! delive y confined to parcels for places, with a Post Office

from which there! 18 a delivery of Ielegrams.

Same as Portugal.

Same as Trinidad.

Letters, plants.

Letters, money, gold, raw or manufactured (except such articles as gold-monated pipe- or sticks), precious stones. ostrich feathers (except when made up into stcles. boas, hats, &c.). Plants or trees are nt admitted except by per the mission of Board of Agriculture at Pretoria, whose written permit must be pro- duced at the time of posting, The addressees of parcels containing firearms or opium must present the permit of the Col. nial Government.

Letters, parts of articles liable to duty in Trinidad, rum, all other spirits except bona fide samples and per- fumed or medicinal spirits, ganja, bhang, cannabis indica, opium and tobacco, or any preparation thereof.

Letters, coin, armis and ammunition of war, nitrate of soda, saltpetre, sulphur, salt, tobacco, plants, parts of the vine, fresh vegetables, kit, chir, hashish.

Transvaal (Including] bwaziland)

Colombo.

1.00 1.60 0.95 1.50

2.201 3.20

2.05

3.80

4.40

5.00

3.00

55

6.60 4.10 4.65! 6.00' 6.15)

6,00!

7.201 7.80

6.70

C O

3 6

6 0

:

:

200

3.00 3 6 0 0 A

Tripoli (Towns of Tri- poli and Benghazi

Egypt.

1.25

1,65

2.05

2 0 4 001

only.).

Trinidad

London.

1.00