Directory_and_Chronicle_1914 — Page 583

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-Prohibited Contents

Prohibited CONTENTS

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(N. B. The following paragraphs are numbered to correspond with Nos. in “Prohibited Contents” column of Parcel Post Tables.)

1.-Letters, Articles of Gold or Silver | admissible if packed in well-protected and other precious articles; coins, arms and ammunition, except with the au- thority of the Abyssinian Government,

2-Letters, opium, cocaine, arms and ammunition.

3.-Letters, saccharine therapeutic serums, boxes of preserved sardines over 2 lbs. 3 oz. in weight, foreign bronze coins, arms 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.

4.-Letters, daggers, stilettos, and blades of all kinds (except in scissors or pen- knives), iron hilts with or without points, arms, ammunition, seeds, and living plants or parts thereof, can be imported only by special authority of the Argentine Govern- ment. The importation of all plants, fruits, and vegetables is subject to special | restrictions.

5.-Specie, ostrich feathers.

6.-Letters, opium, vines or cuttings, hop extracts or substitutes, horns, hoofs, rags, second-hand clothing, tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff, unless bona- fide samples or for the personal use of the addressee, who must satisfy the Colonial Customs Authorities as to the facts. The importation of plants, fruits, and spirits is subject to special restrictions, and the addressees of parcels containing thesc articles must make arrangements with the local authorities for delivery.

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 (parcels containing these goods are accept- ed only at sender's risk); 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 autliorised chemists) vines or parts thereof, including leaves and cuttings; plants unless accom- panied by a phylloxera certificate, cut Howers, seeds, bulbs, grape-stones, vege- tables and fruit (except fresh fruit from America infected with San José scale) are not prohibited. Table grapes are only

crates or baskets. Pigs' flesh, bacon and sausages from the United States of America (unless accompanied by a sanitary certi- ficate prepared in the country of origin); fresh 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.

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9. See South Africa—Union of. 10.-Letters; game out of season in Belgium; absinthe; air-guns air-pistols, poignards, bayonets, sword- sticks; saccharine and similar products (unless for authorised chemists and under 4 oz. in weight), fresh incat except mutton; plants without a phylloxera certificate. Neither paper money nor hand-made lace may be included in uninsured parcels. The precise value of gold, silver, nickel or copper coins and bank-notes having legal currency in Belgium must be shown on the Customs Declarations.

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, patent nedicines, firearms, rags, shoddy, disused and filthy clothing and bedding. Books, magazines, and newspapers should not be sent by Parcel Post.

13-Same as Austria-Hungary,

14.-Letters; arms and ammunition parts of vine (except grapes without leaves); plants; medicine (unless accom- panied by the prescription); coin; un- obliterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer.

15. Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); False money; manufactured articles bearing a false trade description; seeds and living or dried plants, originat ing in India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements,