Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 202

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN LETTER POST

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Customs declara- tions and language

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Prohibitions and restrictions

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needles, pins and other metal objects and beads (100 gram- mes 3 ounces). Samples of alcohol and spirits (except volatile oils and oil essences), not exceeding 7 centilitres (.49 of a gill) for each consignment are admitted if in bottles with plain corks, and without the capsules or labels of bottles made up for sale. These limits of weight apply to any total number of packets, including sample packets, sent at the same time by the same sender to the same addressee. CUSTOMS DECLARATIONS. A green Customs label should be affixed to all packets containing books (including editions of music); a separate Customs declaration is also required.

PROHIBITIONS. Coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver; bank-notes, currency notes, documents payable to bearer, tobacco.

French.

(a) Green lab. & C. 2.

(b) Green Jab. & C. 2.

PROHIBITIONS. Coin, gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones,

silver.

RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of medicines, plants and

parts of plants, tobacco.

(a) Green label.

(b) C. 2.

(c) Green label.

(a) Green label.

(b) Green

label.

PROHIBITIONS. Plants, seeds.