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HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
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 animal and insects unless stuffed, firearms and ammunitions.
55a.-Letters, opium, morphia, morphine and cocaine, arms and ammunition except on production by the addressee of a special permit.
56.-India generally.-Firearms and am- munition, novocain, eucaine, beta-eucaine, beta eucaine lactate, and holocaine; cotton, silk or other woven goods impressed withi designs in imitation of currency notes, promissory notes, or stock notes of the Government of India.
56.-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 Busrah:-Worn clothes; arms, ammunition, poisons, and car- icatures of Royal or other notable persons.
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60.-Letters (except one for the ad- dressee); goods bearing any name or trader niark of any manufacturer, dea er or trade- 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 neat, 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, live animals, explosives or inflam- mable articles.
63. -Same as France, except that tobacco can be imported.
64.-Same as Portugal with the addition of firearms.
65.--Letters, spirits, and bhang; fre- 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; arms and ammunition can only be imported by special permission of the local authorities.
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-unless dried; insects and reptiles; arms
soners, weights and measures not conform- ing to the Italian system, cinematograph, films unless enclosed in soldered zinc boxes.
59.--Letters; one yen silver coins, foreign silver coins, foreign subsidiary coins, and silver ingots. This prohibition is applica- ble only to si ver coins exceeding 100 yens in value, subsidiary coins exceeding 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.
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; dead animals
and ammunition of all kinds.
70. -Letters; very
very fragile articles; tobacco; salt; cotton-oil; vines, and other objeets that might convey phylloxera; medicines and eosmetics, 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 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, prison made goods, adulterated tea, worn clothes of all kinds intended for sale.
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