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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS

39a. Same as Italy.

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packs of cards; parts of the vine (except

40.-Letters, rags, shoddy and disused grapes); earth compost : mushroom clothing.

40a. Same as Denmark.

41.-Letters, secret and forbidden arms, ammunition, game out of season (grouse not included), fresh meat (except fillets and sirloins of beef), birds of various kinds, birds snared or netted, foreign bronze coin, tobacco (unless addressed to the "Regie" or in limited quantities for the personal use of the addressee), essence of tobacco, playing cards, shrubs, young trees (unless accompanied by phylloxera certificate), vine, cuttings with or without roots, grapes. &c., unless the consent of the Government is previously obtained. Me- dicine is accepted at the sender's risk, and the prescription must be copied upon the Customs Declaration Form. Articles of gold and silver and other precious articles can only be sent in insured parcels, and gold and silver jewellery not of the French legal standard will be broken up before being returned to the senders.

42.-Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted without restriction.

43. Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted.

44.--Letters (except one for the ad- dressee.)

45. Same as France, with the addition of opium and silver coin. Medicine, Havana tobacco, and playing cards are, however, admissible.

46.-Same as France. Letters, coin, articles of gold or silver and other cious articles.

pre-

47.--Guadeloupe.-Same as France, ex- cept that tobacco is admitted. Martinique:

letters.

48.-Letters, plants, cuttings and leaves of vines from countries where phylloxera exists unless accompanied by a certificate, cotton seeds (except in special conditions); alms, parts of arms, accessories and am- munition, unless for the Government Service or imported through official depôts for persons other than natives; copper coins of a design different from that of the Society of German East Africa, Maria Theresa crown-pieces, and British East African rupees.

48a.-Letters, arms and ammunition, except for the Government or with a Government permit ; vines and parts and products of vines, except by the medium. of the Government; sed props and sup- ports for trees and plants; hemp seed and raw hemp. Rooted plants other than vines are liable to examination.

49.-Letters, saccharine, and similar products, an preparations containing them; loose playing cards and incomplete

spawn; potatoes of American origin fresh fruit infected with the San José insect and plants of American, Australian or Japanese origin (except water plants); meat (except game and warm-blooded water animals if in sound condition) whether fresh (frozen, dried, smoked pickled in vinegar) or prepared with chemical preservatives or colouring mat- ter, or in sealed cases; swine's flesh of American origin in any form (unless accompanied by a proper sanitary certi- ficate); sausages and mixtures of minced meat; salt meat in pieces weighing less than 4 kilos, (8 lb. 13 oz.); the nests and eggs of certain birds (but not the eggs of gulls and plovers); birds of various kinds, except poultry and game birds (subject to German Game Laws).

50.-Arms, parts of firearms, ammuni- tion, utensils of war, naval or military stores, unless special permission has been obtained; essences of gin, rum, brandy and whisky.

51. Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); firearms, ammunition, machines for making or filling cartridges.

52.-Letters, samples declared to be of no value, copper and bronze money; fresh meat; worn linen and used bedding, un- less washed, old clothes, old shoes, rags, old paper, playing cards, cigarette papers, salt and other articles which fall within 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, pig's flesh, sausages, raw hides, wool, horns, bone and other parts of oxen and sheep, unless accompanied by a certi- ficate of origin properly authenticated by a Greek Consul.

53.-Letters, powders or liquids likely to damage correspondence, liquid poisons, electric apparatus and firearms.

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; poisons; liquids, greasy or easily liquefiable substances; fruit or vegetables which readily decompose; dead animals and insects unless stuffed.