Postal_Guide_July_1957 — Page 155

154 Overseas Post

NEW ZEALAND (continued)

Prohibitions: Letters; cooking utensils made wholly or party of lead or a lead alloy.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Articles bearing the Royal Arms or the New Zealand Coat of Arms; bees and bee-keeping appliances; bulbs, fruit, plants and seeds and grain, grain by-products and any plant product in a form suitable for feeding to stock; all meat products (see Restrictions under LETTER POST); coins; dangerous drugs; firearms; second-hand clothing, except gifts for personal use; skins; feathers or eggs of birds; toilet articles made of animal hair; veterinary biologics,

Customs duty: Advertising matter (catalogues, price lists and so on) is subject to customs duty under the New Zealand customs tariff; but trade catalogues and price lists relative to the goods of firms or persons having no established business in New Zealand are not liable to duty.

Compensation is not payable for uninsured parcels containing liquids, semi- liquids, perishable or fragile articles.

NICARAGUA

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., 25c.

each oz. after, 25c.

Air mail

Letters

Postcards

$1.00

Each 4 oz., $2.00

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Printed papers. (4) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (5) Samples, limit 1 lb. (6) Small Packets. (7) Blind literature. Customs declarations and language: (1) and (6) Green label.

(1) and (6) Green label. Spanish as well as English.

Prohibitions : Bank-notes; coin; gold; platinum; silver. Any Communist material or literature is liable to confiscation by the Nicaraguan postal authorities.

PARCEL POST

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration and language: Two non-adhesive forms and despatch note. Spanish as well as English.

Prohibitions: Letters; firearms, except under permit; petrol lighters; telegraph apparatus. Any Communist material or literature is liable to confiscation by the Nicaraguan postal authorities.

Invoice: A commercial invoice in triplicate, made out in Spanish and certified by a consul for Nicaragua, is required for parcels containing goods valued at 10 U.S. dollars or over.

Sealing: Parcels should be sealed with a distinctive device.

NIGER

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Letters Postcards

First oz., 40c., each oz. after, 25c.

25c.

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Each oz, $1.30

65c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, surface only, limit $1,600 (to Niamey R.P. and Zinder only). (4) Insured boxes, surface only, limit $1,600 (to Niamey R.P. and Zinder only). (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 4 lb. (7) Samples, limit 1 lb. (8) Small Packets. (9) Blind literature.

Customs declarations and language: (1) and (8) Green label. (4) One non- adhesive form. French as well as English.

Prohibitions: Charged butane gas lighters and refills (uncharged lighters are admitted).

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