HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-Prohibited Contents
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 prescribed sanitary certificate; if originating in United States of America, visé 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.
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 health 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; bank notes, current coins and bullion.
60.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); goods bearing any name or trade- mark of any manufacturer, dealer or trader in the United Kingdom or any British Possession, unless such name or trademark is accompanied by a definite indication of the country in which the goods were made or purchased.
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, opium, arms and ammuni-
tion.
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, spirits, and bhang ; · fire- arms, parts of firearms and ammunition, except under permit, opium, morphia, morphine and cocaine, unless addressed to
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the Principal Medical Officer, Federated. Malay States; hypodermic syringes except under special licence from the Medical Department.
66.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); coffee beans or ground coffee coloured with substances injurious to health; rags; vines, or fruit packed in vine leaves.
67.-Letters; arms and ammunition. can only be 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.
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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, opium; saltpetre, lead, sulphur, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, except for Alcazar, Fez and Tangier, or when sent to persons having special permission to receive such articles.
72.-Same as France, with the addition of seeds and plants of the coffee-tree. Tobacco is, however, admitted.
73.-Letters (except one for the ad dressee); salt which has been used in curing fish.
74.-Letters; opium (except for medical purposes); arms and ammunition (except for personal use of non-natives) cannot be imported except with the written permis- sion of the authorities.
75.-Letters, rags, worn clothing, spirits, vine cuttings, coin of any British Posses- sion not up to standard, and opium in any form suitable for smoking. Tobacco in any form is only admissible when sent as a present, or as a sample; and the ad- dressee must be able to prove that these 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 liquors 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.
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