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IIONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
56.—India generally.-Firearms and am- munition, novocain, eucaine, beta-eucaine, beta eucaine lactate, and holocaine; cotton, silk or other woven goods impressed with designs in imitation of currency notes, promissory notes, or stock notes of the Government of India.
Letters, cocaine, opium, bhang, coins of £5 in value and 8 oz. in weight. Andaman Islands:-Preparations of hemp. Burma: Opium, firearms and ammunition (except for the Government); preparations of hemp. Baghdad or Busrali :-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.
59.-Letters; one yen silver coins, foreign silver coins, foreign subsidiary coins, and silver ingots. This prohibition is applica- ble only to silver coins exceeding 100 yens in value, subsidiary coins excceding 3 yens and silver ingots to be imported into Taiwan; opium and articles used in smok- ing 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 ment, 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.
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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 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; armis 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; jains, sweetmeats, pastry; fruit, vegetables; poisons; living animals. (except bees in properly constructed boxes), and dead animals unless dried; arms and ammunition.
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 modical purposes); arms and ammunition (except for personal use of non-natives) cannot be imported except with the written permis- sion of the authorities.
74a-Letters, Opium and Tobacco.
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
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