HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-OBSERVATIONS.-PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
102.--Insurance confined to parcels for Anecho and Lome
103.-No parcel may exceed $500 in value. A charge of 6d. for stamp duty, clearance, &c., is levied on every duti- able parcel. For procedure necessary to secure a rebate of Castoms Duty on British Goods, see Cape Colony. Express delivery confined to parcels for places with a Post Office from which there is a delivery of telegrams.
104.-Parcels for Ottoman Offices in Turkey (in Europe or in Asia) must be packed in boxes of wood or metal, or wrapped in canvas, linen, or similar material, and not merely in paper or card-board. Every parcel must be sealed with wax.
105.-Parcels must be packed in such a manner as to permit of their contents being easily inspected. Note:- The Post Office of either of the contracting countries will not be responsible for the loss of or damage to any parcels, and wo indemnity can consequently be claimed by the sender or addre-see in either country.
565
106.-Each parcel for the United States must be accom- panied by an invoice which must be certified by U. S. Consul if the value of the parcel exceeds $200.
107.-Parcels may be accepted for any places in Uruguay if addressees arrange to claim them at the nearest delivery office.
108.-Detailed particulars of the contents and exact weight of parcels must be entered on the Customs Declara- tion. A separate declaration must be prepared for each parcel. No more than twenty kilograinnies of goods of one sort may be imported by one addressee in a single mail. As the conditions of transit involve numerous transhipments parcels should be very strongly packed. If packed in paper only they cannot be accepted.
109.-Uninsured parcels must not exceed £56 in value. Parcels may be accepted for any place in the Zanzibar Protectorate, including Pemba, but delivery is confined to the town of Zanzibar and to Chaki-Chaki and Weti in the island of Pomba, and the addressees of parcels for other places in tå- Protectorate must arrange accordingly.
PROHIBITED CONTENTS
(N. B. The following paragraphs are numbered to correspond with Nos, in "Prohibited Contents" column of Parcel Post Tables.)
1.--Letters, opium and cocaine. 2.--Letters, foreign bronze coins, armis and ammunition of war, medicines (the components of which are not stated), parts of the vine, vegetable compost, earth, manure, plants, bulbs or vegetables unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate.
3.- Letters, vine plants, gold, silver, jewellery of exceptional value.
4.-Specie, ostrich feathers. 5.-Letters.
New South Wales.-Tobacco (except samples addressed to a manufacturer or dealer), opium, cigars, cigarettes and snuffs not less than 10 lbs., second-hand clothing.
Queensland.-Tobacco (unless for the personal use of the addressee), grapes, vine cuttings, coffee plants or seeds, spirits (except perfumed or medicinal), second- hand clothing.
Tasmania.----Tobacco (except in quanti- tics not exceeding 5 lbs. for the personal use of the addressce or as bona fide sam- ples), second-hand clothing.
Victoria, --Coin, opium, spirits (except ¦¦ perfumed or medicinal or bona fide sam- ples), second-hand clothing, vines or vine cuttings.
Western Australia.--Coin, gold or silver bullion, apples, pears, quinces, second- hand clothing.
6.--Letters, second-hand clothing. 7.--Letters: Potatoes and parts of potatoes, plants and parts of plants, from the United States of America; trick cigars patent medicines and medical appliances, and circulars relating thereto; imitations of coin and paper money: secret and forbidden arms; essences of distilled spirituous liquors; wines coloured by means of aniline dyes; cracker paper;
|
|
gold and silver articles not up to the proper standard; saccharine (unless for authorised chemists)
vines or parts thereof, including leaves and cuttings; plants unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate, cut flowers, seeds, bulbs, grape- stones, vegetables and fruit (except fresh fruit from America infected with San José scale) are not prohibited. Table grapes are only admissible if packed in well- protected crates or baskets. Pis flesh, bacon and sausages from the United States of America (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate prepared in the country of origin); flesh or preserved (salted, dried, smoked or cooked) meat from extra-European countries.
Special to Hungary.-Fresh and prepar- ed meat coming from countries outside Europe, except by permission of the Hungarian Minister of Agriculture, but this permission is not necessary in the case of pork, lard and sausages coming from the United States of America.
8.-Letters, rags, shoddy, disused cloth- ing, and loaded dice.
9. —Same as Cape Colony, (22) 10.--Letters: absinthe; air-guns and ai-pistols, poignards, bayonets, sword- sticks; saccharine 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.
11.-Letters; bulbs of every description, except under special regulations prescribed from time to time by the Colonial Board of Agriculture.
12. Letters; leaf tobacco, salt, plants, printing type, celluloid, chlorate of potas- sium, foreign silver coins, lottery tickets,
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.