Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 210

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN LETTER POST

Customs

declara-

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tions and

language

5

French or Spanish. (a) Green label.

(b) Green

label.

Prohibitions and restrictions

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PROHIBITIONS. Playing cards, tobacco.

RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of bank-notes (Spanish), jewels, pharmaceutical preparations, plants and parts of plants, precious stones.

CUSTOMS DUTY. Books, catalogues, and so on, are liable to Customs duty; and a green Customs label must be affixed to all printed paper packets containing such articles.

PROHIBITIONS. Gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver; bank-notes, currency notes and documents payable to bearer, except in insured letters; playing cards, tobacco,

(a) Green label.

(b) C. 2.

(c) Green label.

(a) Green label.

French. (a) Green lab. & C. 3.

PROHIBITIONS. Gold, jewellery, platinum, precious stones, silver, except in insured boxes; bank-notes and currency notes exceeding 100 dollars (Straits Settlements) face value, except in insured letters. Packets, other than insured letters and boxes, marked on the outside with any declara- tion as to the value of the contents except such declaration as is required for Customs purposes. Packets of pictorial postcards by printed papers post.

RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of plants and seeds.

RESTRICTIONS. All imported articles (except samples of no saleable value and articles admissible for transmission as printed papers) are liable to Customs duty.

PROHIBITIONS. Articles of gold,

Articles of gold, platinum or silver, jewellery, precious stones, except in insured boxes; currency notes except in insured letters.

(b) C. 3.

PACKING.

boxes.

Cinematograph films must be packed in airtight tin

(c) Green lab. & C. 3.

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