HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE. PROHIBITED CONTENTS.
the monopoly of the Greek Government ; saccharine and its products, unless ad- dressed to a chemist; vines, plants gen- erally and parts thereof, including flowers and fruit, pigs' flesh, sausages, raw bides, wool, horns, bone and other parts of oxen and sheep. unless accompanied by a certi- ticate of origin properly authenticated by
53.- Letters, liquids, corrosive sub- stances, poisons.
54.-Letters; pirated editions of copy- right works, bronze coins and bronze dies for coining articles excluded by the Phylloxera Convention; grapes ; uncured hides, flesh, wool, and hair of animals (other than pigs' bristles prepared for the manufacture of brushes) except by per- mission of the Minister of Agriculture; plants from America; gooseberry, currant and raspberry plants as well as the material in which they have been packed; other plants unless accompanied by a certificate of origin.
55.-Letters, opium, morphia, morphine and cocaine.
56.—India generally.—Firearms and am- munition, novocain, encaine, beta-encaine, lactate, and holocaine; cotton, silk or other woven goods impressed with designs in imitation of currency notes, promissory notes, or stock notes of the Government of India.
Letters, cocaine, opium, bhang, coins of £5 in value and 8 ozs. in weight. Andaman Islands:-Preparations of hemp. Burma: Opium, firearms and ammunition (except for the Government); preparations of hemp. Baghdad or Busrah:-Worn clothes; arms, ammunition, poisons, and caricatures of Royal or other notable per-
sons.
57.-Letters, salt, unmanufactured to- bacco unless specially authorised, plants, living parts of plants, including bulbs truffles, mushrooms, &c., grapes, vegetable matter, pharmaceutical products of which the composition is not stated (except by special permission), saccharine and its products (unless addressed to authorised chemists, arms or parts thereof except by special permission) playing cards addressed to the Republic of San Marino, fresh meat and its products (such as suet or lard), salted, smoked or prepared meat (unless accompanied by prescribedSanitary certificate; if originating in United States of America, vise of Italian Consulate is required), eatables addressed to pupils in military schools, parcels addressed to pri- soners, weights and measures not conform- ing to the Italian system.
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58.-Same as France. Arms and am- munition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
59.-Letters; opium and articles used in smoking it; adulterated or injurious drugs, foods and beverages; anything else con- sidered injurious to the public bealth or to the safety of animals or plants; tobacco, and cigarette papers, except by special authority of the Japanese Government ; salt, except when imported by order of the Government.
60.-Letters (except for the addressee); goods bearing any name or trademark of any manufacturer, dealer or trader in the United Kingdom or any British Possession, unless such name or trademark accompanied by a definite indication of the country in which the goods were made or purchased.
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61-Letters; vines and parts of vines (except grapes); saccharine and its pro- ducts; pork of American origin, fresh meat, prepared meat, salted meat in quan- tities of less than 4 Kilos (8 lb. 13 oz.) except ham, bacon, intestines.
62.-Letters and opium.
63. -Same as in the case of France, except that tobacco can be imported.
64.-Same as Portugal with the addition of firearms,
65.--Letters, opium, morphia, morphine, cocaine, spirits, bhang, firearms and am- munition.
66.-Coffee beans or ground coffee coloured with substances injurious to health; rags; vines, or fruit packed in vine leaves.
67.- Arms and ammunition can only he imported by special permission of the local authorities.
68.-Letters; worn clothes, if intended for sale. Vine plants affected with any disease or brought from a place where any disease of vine plants is known or supposed to exist.
69.-Letters; jams, sweetmeats, pastry; fruit, vegetables; poisons; living animals (except bees in properly constructed boxes), and dead animals unless dried; arms and ammunition.
70. -Letters; very fragile articles; tobacco; salt; cotton-oil; vines, and other objects that might convey phylloxera ; medicines and cosmetics, unless for chemists; meat and used clothing, unless certified by sanitary authorities.
71.-Letters; arms, ammunition, tobacco, opium; saltpetre, lead, and sulphur.
72.-Same as France, with the addition of seeds and plants of the coffee-tree. Tobacco is, however, admitted.
73.-Salt which has been used in curing
fish.
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