HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-PROHIBITED CONTENTS
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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); arms and ammunition, except by special authority of the local govern- ment; grapes, unless accompained by a phylloxera certificate and subjected to examination by the Inspector of Agricul- ture on arrival; oranges, potatoes, cotton seed, rags, shoddy, worn clothing and used bags, sacks, carpets, embroidery, raw opium, medicinal opium, morphine, he- roine, cocaine and similar drugs, are subject to certain restrictions; prepared opium is absolutely prohibited.
67.-Letters; arms
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; jams, sweetmeats, pastry; fruit, vegetables; poisons; dead animals unless dried; insects and reptiles; arms and ammunition of all kinds.
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 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. 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. Fruits or plants.
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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; aims of precision, ammuni- tion, spirituous liquors and wines; sub- stances which easily liquefy, unless en- closed 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, 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.
80a.-Same as Australia.
806.-Letters sweets, paste, fats, liquids, arms, ammunition.
81.-Letters, articles of gold and silver, jewellery, &c., corrosive fluids.
81a.-Arms, ammunition, explosive, in- flammable or dangerous matter. Silver or gold coins, paper money, shares or bonds, etc. Printed matter indecent in character or dealing with lotteries. Dyes, bees, silkworms, shaving or hair brushes exported from Japan.
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.
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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 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 Portuguese 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
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