HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE.-PROhibited ConTENTS.
conditions have been complied with in each case.
76.-Letters; liquids or substances easily liquefiable; alcohol; telegraphic and tele- phonic apparatus; arms, parts of firearms.
77.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); coin; arms of precision, spirituous Jiquors and wines must be accompanied by a permit to import, signed by the Governor,
78.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); salt: substances which easily liquefy, unless enclosed in hermetically sealed receptacles.
79.-Letters, pharmaceutical prepara- tions unless addressed to persons authorized by law to buy, sell or receive such articles.
80.--Letters; coin; cotton seed, unless originating in Egypt or addressed to the Director of Agriculture when intended for experimental purposes, potato seed: seeds or plants of the albizzia tree, unless originating in Australia; seeds or living or dried plants originating in Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, Dutch East Indies, Guatemala, Central American States, Mauritius, Zanzibar, German East Africa Congo Free State and Natal may only be imported on production at the Zomba Post Office of à special permit signed by the Governor of the Protectorate.
81.-Letters, arms, ammunition.
87.-See South Africa British.
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88.-Letters; ikons (religious images or pictures), photographs and reproductions of works representing scenes from foreign history; copper, nickel, silver and gold coins not current in Roumania (except antique coins); coins intended for purposes of orna- ment; soiled paper; cotton waste; coffee prepared with colouring matter: arms (unless accompanied by a permit for their transit through Austria, to be obtained from the "Bezerkshauptmanschaft" of the district in which the Austrian Customs Office of entry is situated), and ammunition; colouring matter and essences used for the manufacture or adulteration of wine or brandy: saccharine (unless for authorised chemists); patent medicines and pharmaceutical preparations (except to authorised institutions); trees and plants of ail kinds (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate countersigned by a Roumanian Consul); tobacco in any form, cigarette papers, playing cards, salt, and mineral waters, weights and measures of any kind are only admitted by special permission.
89.---Letters; used Russian postage stamps labels not sent with the goods to which they apply; rags and old clothes, sent as merchandise, and unmanufactured
82.- Letters, articles of gold and silver, animal products (unless accompanied by jewellery, &c., corrosive fluids.
83.--Letters, arms, ammunition, aniline colours, publications offensive to good manners or opposed to the Mussulman religion. (See also India.)
84.—Same as United States.
85.--Letters, tobacco (manufactured or manufactured), living plants or parts of plants (except bulbs or seeds) unless accompanied by a proper certificate that the district from which they are sent is free from phylloxera, either sporadic or epidemic; unstamped playing cards, manu- scripts (except bound commercial books or the minutes of a Society or Company, or invoices relating to the contents of the parcel); foreign products bearing trade imarks in contravention of existing laws; books contravening the Portuguese copy- right laws; articles bearing the Red Cross sign, unless addressed to the Red Cross Society at Lisbon; medicine (unless ac- companied by the prescription); coin; unobliterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper; bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer can only be sent in insured parcels. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together.
86.-Same as Portugal, with the excep tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited.
a proper certificate of disinfection), plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate. One certificate suffices for 3 uninsured parcels for same addressee); all parts of the vine except grapes: small Silver and copper coins, Russian or foreign ; gold or silver articles not up to the proper standard; prize coupons; sword-sticks; air-guns; arms (except by special permis- sion to be obtained by the addressee): playing cards; unauthorised medicines articles coloured with arsenical dyes; aniline and similar dyes except in crystal form margarine products; swine's flesh, and all its products, except lard; artificial saffron compounds described as "tea" but containing mixtures of other herbs; and, to Finland, brandy: poisons; pota- toes; alcoholic varnish ; articles of celluloid except in wooden boxes.
89a.-Letters (except one for the addressee).
90.-Letters, arms, except revolvers of calibre less than 44, air-guns, nitrate of potash, saltpetre, apparatus for coining money.
91.-Letters, opium as an article of consumption (except for the Government); firearms, animunition, air-guns, and air- pistols (except for the use of the Govern- ment or with its written authority),
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