HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
mixtures, and all fresh meat except sirloins of beef, ox tongues, and sweet- breads. Sausages made of dried meat must be made of meat only, without the addition of any other substance; preserved meat, in sealed receptacles, must be mark- ed with the description of the contents and the name or trade mark of the manu- facturer or vendor. All parcels containing meat must be accompanied by a certificate of origin and inspection of approved form. No frozen meat can be imported without previous permission. Poultry, fish or game (including hares and rabbits) can only be sent whole.
101.-Letters, parts of articles liable to duty in Trinidad, rum, all other spirits except bond-fide samples and perfumed or medicinal spirits, ganja, bhang, cannabis indica, opium and tobacco, or preparation thereof.
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102.-Letters, coin, arms and ammuni- tion of war, nitrate of soda, saltpetre, sulphur, salt, tobacco, plants, parts of the vine, fresh vegetables, kif, chira, hashish.
103.-Letters, tobacco, by the Constantza route in any form; by other routes except cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff; articles of celluloid except in zine boxes; foreign silver coin; rifles and rifle ammunition of army pattern; empty cartridges except for sporting rifles; revolvers, of which the barrels exceed 15 centimetres (nearly 6 in.) in length; patent medicines, hashish; postcards or private manufacture, bearing the heading "Postes Imperiales Ot- tomanes"; skins (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate); raw cotton in any form or cotton cake originating in the United States of America, and the acking material, etc., with which it has been in contact, plants, parts of plants and flowers are subject to special restrictions, and can be sent by Parcel Post only at the sender's risk.
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104.--Letters, foreign reprints of British copyright works. Acetylene, saccharine, base coins. Foreign coin other than gold or silver, tobacco except for personal use, and coin or bullion over £5 in value or 8 ozs. in weight.
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Same as via London.
106. In addition to those articles which are specified in Postal Guide, Rules 210 and 215, as excluded from transmission by Foreign and Colonial Post, the undermen- tioned articles are prohibited from importation into the United States: Letters, eatables, ox-hides, prison-made wares, wines, spirits, cigars, and cigarettes unless sent in quantities numbering at least 3,000 in a single package (see Observations); wines and spirits may be sent in bottles, but Customs duty will be charged as if each parcel contained not less than 12 bottles. Opium containing less than 9 per cent. of morphine, casks of wine and spirits containing less than 14 gallons.
107.--Letters, liquids or semi-liquids, orchilla or litmus and its derivatives, plants or living parts of plants, grapes, game, gold or silver coins (except ancient coins intended for collections, which are admitted up to the number of 10 per parcel).
108.-Letters, cocoanut oil, starch, indigo, cocoa, coffee, syrup, honey, dried and salted meat, salt, sarsaparilla roots, silver, nickel and copper coins, dies for coining, cigarette paper, cigarettes of all sorts and machines for making them and empty cigarette boxes or packets unless addressed to the National Cigarette Factory, and (via France) gold, silver, jewellery, &c. As regards plums, sardines, &c., via France, see France.
109.-Transmission of dutiable articles is prohibited except by Parcels Post; any articles which contravene this regulation are confiscated.
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