Parcel Post Schedule Continuation




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69
SCHEDULE-continued.
FOREIGN PARCEL POST RATES, VIA LONDON.

Colony or Country. | Route from New Zealand. | Route or Means of Conveyance from London. | Rate of Postage. (s. d.) | Maximum Dimensions. | Special Prohibitions.

COSTA RICA

Direct steamers
to London

Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamers

Not exceeding 2lb .. 4 0
Exceeding 2lb but not exceeding 3lb 6 6
7tb 8 0
11tb12 2

Same as Inland Par-
cel Post

Letters, arms, ammunition.

CYPRUS (see list at
any post office)

Ditto

Peninsular and
Oriental st'm'rs
via the Thames,
and Austrian
Lloyd via Port
Said

Not exceeding 1tb .. 2 5
Exceeding 1tb but not exceeding 2tb 3 1
For each additional Ib or fraction of
a Ib up to 11tb 1 2

Ditto

Locust eggs, salt, silver and
copper coins, tobacco, cigars
and snuff.

DEMERARA (see BRITISH GUIANA).
DENMARK

Direct steamers
to London

General Steam
Navigation Com-
pany's steamers
via Hamburg

Via Hamburg.
Not exceeding 2lb .. 3 1
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 3lb 5 7
3lb .. 7lb 6 2

Via Belgium by
Belgian mail
packet

Via Belgium.
Not exceeding 215 .. 3 5
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 3tb 5 11
31b .. 71b 6 4

2ft. in any direc-
tion

Letters, foreign lottery tickets
and prospectuses, imitations
of money, notes or bills, pota-
toes, almanacs, pork, bacon.
sausages, &c.

DIEGO SUAREZ

Ditto

Via France ..

Not exceeding 216 .. 5 3
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 315 7 9
31b .. 7lb 8 2

Greatest length, 2ft.;
greatest length and
girth combined, 4ft.

Letters.

DOMINICA (see LEE WARD ISLANDS).
EGYPT

Direct steamers
to London

Peninsular and
Oriental st'm'rs
via the Thames

Via Thames.
Not exceeding 21b .. 2 11
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 4tb 6 8
41b .. 7lb 8 6
71b .. 111b13 6

Same as Inland
Parcel Post

Letters, arms (unless addressed
to members of the British
army), materials for the com-
position of gunpowder, salt
haschish, books of the Mussul-
man religion, and (via Brindisi
articles of exceptional value
tobacco-plants, pork, bacon
sausages, &c.

Via Brindisi.
Not exceeding 21b .. 4 2
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 31b 6 8
31b .. 7tb 7 4

Ditto.

FALKLAND IS-
LANDS

Ditto

Kosmos Line
steamers

Not exceeding 11b .. 1 10
Exceeding 1tb but not exceeding 2tb 2 7
For each additional Ib or fraction of
a Ib up to 111b 1 3

Ditto.

FINLAND

" "

Via Sweden ..

Not exceeding 115 .. 3 0
Exceeding 11b but not exceeding 21b 3 7
21b .. 6 8
31b .. 7lb 9 6

2ft. in any direction

Letters, brandy, guns, sword-
sticks, &c., playing-cards, Fin-
nish and Russian silver or cop-
per coins, church-effects, ether
skin and fur of sea otters.

FRANCE (not in-
cluding CORSICA)
Parcels for Gex,
Ferney, Divonne-
les-Bains, and
Sauverny must be
prepaid at the
rates for Switzer-
land.

" "

Via Dover and
Calais

Not exceeding 215 .. 3 0
Exceeding 21b but not exceeding 31b 5 6
31b .. 7lb 5 11

2ft. in any direction.
Parcels slightly
longer than 2ft. are
admitted if their
other dimensions are
small

Letters, secret and forbidden
arms, ammunition, articles in-
fringing copyright and trade-
mark laws, game out of season
medicines the components of
which are not stated, foreign
bronze coin, tobacco, unless
addressed to the "Régie" or
in limited quantities for the
personal use of the addressee
essence of tobacco, playing-
cards, shrubs, young trees
parts of the vine, gold or silver
articles, jewellery, lace.

FRENCH GUIANA (see CAYENNE).
GAMBIA

Direct steamers
to London

African and Bri-
tish and African
Companies'
steamers

Not exceeding 11b .. 1 10
Exceeding 1tb but not exceeding 21b 2 7
For each additional lb or fraction of
a Ib up to 111b 1 3

Same as Inland Par-
cel Post.

GERMANY

Ditto

By sea direct,
General Steam
Navigation Com-
pany's steamers
via Hamburg

Via Hamburg.
Not exceeding 2tb .. 2 8
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 31b 5 2
31b .. 7lb 5 9

Via Belgium, by
Belgian mail
packet

Via Belgium.
Not exceeding 21b .. 3 0
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 31b 5 6
31b .. 7lb 5 11

2ft. in any direc-
tion

Letters, plants with roots, all
parts of the vine-plant, pork,
bacon, sausages, &c., books of
a social-democratic or social-
istic tendency.

GIBRALTAR

" "

Peninsular and
Oriental st'm'rs
via the Thames

Not exceeding 11b .. 1 9
Exceeding 1tb but not exceeding 2tb 2 3
For each additional lb or fraction of
a Ib up to 111b 1 0

Same as Inland Par-
cel Post

Arms.

GREEK PORTS, viz.,
Argostoli, Cala-
mita, Catacolo,
Cerigo, Corfu,
Patras, Piræus,
Santa Maura,
Syra Volo, and
Zante

" "

Via Germany
and Austria

Via Cologne.
Not exceeding 21b .. 4 3
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 31b 6 9
31b .. 7lb 7 2

2ft. in any direc-
tion

Letters, potatoes, plants or
parts of plants, manures.

Via Hamburg.
Not exceeding 21b .. 4 0
Exceeding 2tb but not exceeding 31b 6 6
31b .. 7lb 7 0

GRENADA

" "

Royal Mail Com-
pany's steamers

Not exceeding 1tb .. 1 9
Exceeding 1tb but not exceeding 2tb 2 5
For each succeeding lb or fraction of
a Ib up to 11tb 1 2

Same as Inland Par-
cel Post

Unmanufactured tobacco.



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🚂 Continuation of Foreign Parcel Post Rates Schedule via London (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
11 December 1889
Parcel Post, Rates, Schedule, International Mail, Postage, Prohibitions, Table