Postal_Guide_September_1963 — Page 183

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180 Overseas Post

NEW GUINEA TERRITORY (continued)

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. $4.00 4.00 5.00

Each lb., $7.50

11lb. 22lb. 6.50 12.00

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration: One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Letters; blank invoice forms.

Restrictions apply to the importations of: Cotton seed and raw cotton; plants; spirits, tinned meats.

Compensation is not payable.

NEW HEBRIDES (including Banks and Torres Islands)

LETTER POST

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Postcards

Letters First oz., 20c., Postcards

15c.

Letters Each oz., $1.30

65c.

each oz. after, 15c.

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

Customs declarations: (1) and (6) Green label.

Prohibitions : Plants; playing cards.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Articles of gold; bank-notes, currency notes, documents payable to bearer; coin; insulin; medicines; scrums, vaccines and similar preparations.

Printed matter : Printed matter, especially books, is liable to an internal tax, bur newspapers and periodicals are exempt.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. 11lb. 221b. $4.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 17.00

Air mail

Each Hb., $9.00

Supplemental services available: None.

Customs declaration: One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Letters; arms (except sporting guns admitted under permit); candles; playing cards; saccharin; tobacco essence.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: Cut flowers; eggs of game birds during close season; fish and game; fresh fruit; fresh vegetables and potatoes, including seed potatoes; gramophone records; liqueurs and spirits, except gin and whisky of British origin; living plants, roots and bulbs, shrubs; preserved fish; plums and vegetables.

The importation of certain other goods is subject to the production of an import licence, and such goods should not be despatched until the necessary licence has been obtained by the addressee.

Compensation is not payable.

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