HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
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.
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 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 addres- see); coin; salt; 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.
79.-Letters, pharmaceutical prepara- tions unless addressed to persons authorized by law to buy, sell or receive such articles. Gooseberries, fresh meat or skins of animals.
80.-Letters; coin; cotton seed, unless originating in Egypt or addressed to the Director of Agriculture when intended for experimental purposes, potato seed; seeds or plants of the albizzia tree, unless originating in Australia; seeds or living or dried plants originating in Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, Dutch East Indies, Guatemala, Central American States, Mauritius, Zanzibar, German East Africa Congo Free State and Natal may only be imported on production at the Zomba Post Office of a special permit signed by the Governor of the Protectorate.
80.-Same as Australia.
806.-Letters, sweets, paste, fats, liquids, arms, ammunition.
81.—Letters, articles of gold and silver, jewellery, &c., corrosive fluids.
82.-Letters, arms, ammunition, aniline colours, publications offensive to good manners or opposed to the Mussulman religion. (See also India.)
82a.-Letters, implements of war. 83.-Same as United States.
84.--Letters, tobacco (manufactured or unmanufactured), living plants or parts of plants (except bulbs or seeds) unless accompanied by a proper certificate that the district from which they are sent is free from phylloxera, either sporadic or epidemic; unstamped playing cards, manu- scripts (except bound commercial books
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or the minutes of a Society or Company, or invoices relating to the contents of the parcel); foreign products bearing trade marks in contravention of existing laws; books contravening the Portugues copy- right laws; articles bearing the Red Cross sign, unless addressed to the Red Cross Society at Lisbon; medicine (unless ac- companied by the prescription); coin; unobliterated postage or other stamps or stamped paper; bank notes, promissory notes and all orders for the payment of money to bearer can only be sent in insured parcels. A parce' may not consist of two or more packages tied together.
85.-Same as Portugal, with the excep- tion of tobacco, which is not prohibited.
8:a. Same as France.
86.-See South Africa, British.
87.-Letters; ikons (religious images or pictures), photographs and reproductions of works representing scenes from foreign history; copper, nickel, silver and gold coins not current in Roumania (except antique coins); coins intended for purposes of orna- ment; soiled paper; cotton waste; coffee prepared with colouring matter; arms (unless accompanied by a permit for their transit through Austria, to be obtained from the "Bezerkshaupt-manschaft" of the district in which the Austrian Customs Office of entry is situated), and ammunition; colouring matter and essences used for the manufacture or adulteration of wine or brandy; saccharine (unless for authorised chemists); patent medicines and pharmaceutical preparations (except to authorised institutions); trees and plants of all kinds (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate countersigned by a Roumanian consul); tobacco in any form, cigarette papers, playing cards, salt, and mineral waters, weights and measures of any kind are only admitted by special permission.
88.--Letters; used Russian postage stamps; labels not sent with the goods to which they apply; rags and old clothes sent as merchandise, and unmanufactured animal products (unless accompanied by a proper certificate of disinfection), plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate. One certificate suffices for 3 uninsured parcels for same addressee); all parts of the vine except grapes; small silver and copper coins, Russian or Foreign; gold or silver articles not up to the proper standard; prize coupons; sword-sticks air-guns; arms (except by special permis- sion to be obtained by the addressee); playing cards; unauthorised medicines; articles coloured with arsenical dyes aniline and similar dyes except in crystal form; margarine products; swine's flesh,
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