Postal_Guide_1939 — Page 308

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST

Limitations of service and special conditions

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PROHIBITIONS: letters; arms; brandy and liqueurs; playing cards; saccharine; serums, vaccines, toxins and similar substances; tobacco (leaf or manu- factured).

DELIVERY is confined to Nouméa.

COMPENSATION is not payable.

PROHIBITIONS: letters, except one

liquors; worn clothing for sale. CUSTOMS DUTY: advertising matter (catalogues, price lists, and so on) is

subject to Customs duty, for further information see page 89. COMPENSATION is not payable for damage to fruit, meat or vegetables; glass, crockery, gramophone records, greases, liquids, semi-liquids, or any article of an exceptionally fragile nature.

for the addressee; arms; intoxicating

The Mandated Territory comprises the portion of the island of New Guinea formerly German, the Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Admiralty and Duke of York Islands) and Buka and Bougainville (Solomon Islands).

PROHIBITIONS: letters; blank invoice forms. RESTRICTIONS apply to the importation of

plants; spirits.

COMPENSATION is not payable.

seed and raw cotton;

cotton seed and