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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS

92.-Letters; lottery tickets; arms and ammunition; tobacco, salt, petrol and al- cohol unless with the consent of the Ad- ministration of Monopolies; saccharine, medicines and drugs not addressed to chemists; pharmaceutical products not in the official pharmacopoeia; colours (with certain exceptions), used clothing or linen. Meat, fresh or prepared, and animal pro- ducts of all kinds are subject to sanitary regulations.

93.-Letters, arnis, opium.

94.-Letters, old clothing, sacks and sacking.

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95. Poisons (except under special licence).

97.-Letters, coins, firearms and ammuni- tion, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries, relics, &c., pharmaceutical preparations or patent medicines of unknown composition of which the prescription has not been pub- lished, wax vestas and all kinds of matches, substances containing saccharine, unmanu- factured tobacco, tobacco-seed and juice, plants unless accompanied by a phylloxera -certificate, to which, if in English, a French or Spanish version should be appended, gold, silver (including articles mounted with these metals), jewellery, playing cards, &c. A parcel may not consist of two or more packages tied together. As regards plums, sardines, &c., sent via France, see France.

98.-Letters, spirits and bhang, firearms, parts of firearms and ammunition, except under permit; and, unless addressed to the Principal Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, opium, morphia, morphine, cocaine, hypodermic syringes and other instruments or parts of instruments for hypodermic injection, including hypoder- mic needles. Drugs should be fully described in the Customs Declaration; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examination.

99.-Letters; manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness; some pharmaeutical products and arsenic, unless addressed to a State Pharmacy or to specially authorised persons; articles made abroad which bear the name of a place, property, manufactory or tradesman in Sweden, or any marking in Swedish to explain the nature of the goods must bear the word "Import" or the name and domi- cile of the foreign manufacturer, applied conspicuously and indelibly. Goods which do not comply with this regulation are confiscated.

100.-Letters, newspapers and post cards intended for distribution; Italian, 1 and 2 franc pieces, glassware with Swiss

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Federal or Cantonal gauge marks; salt, unless with the permission of Cantonal authorities; alcohol, unless addressed to Federal authority, and other spirits, unless gross weight and percentage of alcohol are shown on the Customs Declaration : earth compost, grapes addressed to places in the Canton Valais, grapes addressed to other parts of Switzerland (unless accompanied by a special permit from the Federal De- partment of Agriculture); vines and parts thereof, other plants and bulbs (unless ac companied by a phylloxera certificate and special permit from the Federal Depart- ment of agriculture); birds of many kinds, meat prepared with colouring or preserva- tive matter; fresh sausages and similar 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 ganie (including hares and rabbits) can only be sent whole.

100a.-Live animals, coins and bullion; Indecent, profane and libellous documents.

101.-Letters, parts of articles liable to duty in Trinidad. rum, all other spirits except bond-fide samples and perfunied or medicinal spirits, ganja, bhang, cannabis indica, opium

or and tobacco,

preparation thereof.

any

101a.-Same as Portugal. 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 and opium, etc.

102a.--Same as Trinidad.

103. Letters, tobacco. by the Constantza route in any form; by other routes except cigars, chewing tobacco, and snuff; articles of celluloid except in zinc boxes; foreign silver coin; rifles and rifle ammunition of army pattern; empty cartridges except for sporting rifles; revolvers, of which the bar- rels exceed 15 centimetres (nearly 6 in.) in length; patent medicines, hashish; post- cards of private manufacture, bearing the heading "Postes Imperiales Ottomanes skins (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate); raw cotton in any form or cot- ton cake originating in the United States of America, and the packing inaterial, etc., with which it has been in contact, plants

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