Postal_Guide_September_1963 — Page 184

NEW ZEALAND

LETTER POST

Overseas Post 181

Postage:

Surface

Air mail

Letters Postcards

Letters Postcards

First oz., 20c., 15c.

each oz. after, 15c.

Each oz., $1.30

65c.

Supplemental services available: (1) Green label service, letter post (except in insured letters) and sample post. (2) Registration. (3) Insured letters, air and surface, limit $1,840. (4) Insured boxes, air and surface, limit $1,840. (5) Printed papers. (6) Commercial papers, limit 5 lb. (7) Samples, limit 5 lb. (8) Small packets. (9) Blind literature.

Customs declarations: (1) and (8) Green label and one non-adhesive form, (4) One non-adhesive form.

Prohibitions : Except by consent of the Minister of Customs, the importation of printed matter relating to football pools and competitions of a like nature operated outside New Zealand, is prohibited.

Restrictions apply to the importation of: 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.

Customs duty : Advertising matter is subject to customs duty, see under Parcel Post.

Note: For Danger (Pukapuka), Manihiki, Palmerston (Avarua), Penrhyn (Tongareva), Rakahanga, Niue (Savage), Suwarrow and Tokelau (or Union) Group see New Zealand Island Territories.

PARCEL POST

Postage:

Surface

Not over 2lb. 3lb. 7lb. Tilb. 221b.

$5.00 5.00 7.00 9.00 17.00

Air mail Each lb., $8.00

Supplemental services available: Insurance, air and surface, limit $800.

Custonis declaration: One adhesive form.

Prohibitions: Letters; cooking utensils, made wholly or partly 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.

Gift parcels not exceeding £2 in value are admitted free of duty. Import licences are required by recipients where the value of the parcel exceeds £10. The customs declaration form should be clearly marked Unsolicited gift.

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.