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New Zealand Gazette – 1893 – No. 29

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✨ Parcel Post Rates and Conditions

April 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 491

BRITISH, INTERCOLONIAL, AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST.

Note.—Until arrangements are made for the exchange of direct parcel-mails with China, India, Canada, &c., parcels to and from these countries will be forwarded through the General Post Office, London. (Parcel-mails to London are forwarded by Direct Steamers only.)

Colony or Country.

Route.

Rate of Postage. Not exceeding—

1lb. | 2lb. | 3lb. | 4lb. | 5lb. | 6lb. | 7lb. | 8lb. | 9lb. | 10lb. | 11lb.

Maximum Dimensions.

Special Prohibitions, in addition to those specified under the Conditions of Transmission.

Accra ... ... ... Via London...

Aden. See India.

Adrianople. See Turkey.

Algeria ... ... ... London-France

Amboyna. Same as Batavia.

Annam ... ... ... London-France

Antigua. See Leeward Islands.

Argentine Republic... ... London...

Ascension ... ... ... London...

Asmara. See Eritrea.

Assab. See Eritrea.

Assinie. Same as French Congo.

Austria-Hungary (not including Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Azores ... ... ...

Bagamoyo ... ... ... London-Germany

Baghdad. See India.

Bahamas ... ... ... London-New York

Barbados ... ... ... London...

Batavia. See Java.

Bechuanaland, Colony of ... London-Capetown

Bechuanaland Protectorate, and the Trans-protectorate (Kanya, Molopole, Macleoutsie, Palachwe, Ramoutsa, Tati, Maggwe, and Buluwayo)

Belgium ... ... ... London...

Belize. See British Honduras.

Benito. Same as French Congo.

Berbera. Same as India.

Bermuda ... ... ... London-New York

Beyrout ... ... ... London-Port Said

Borneo. See North Borneo and Sarawak.

Bosnia ... ... ... London-Germany

British Guiana ... ... London...

British Honduras ... ... London-New York

Bulgaria ... ... ...

Burmah. See India.

Cameroons ... ... ... London...

Canada ... ... ... London...

Candia. See Turkey.

Cape Coast Castle ... ... London...

(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.

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

Ditto

Ditto

(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.

2ft. in any direction

Ditto

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

Ditto

(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.

Ditto

Ditto

Ditto

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

(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.

Ditto

2ft. in any direction...

(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.

Ditto

2ft. in any direction

Ditto

(Greatest length, 2ft.; greatest depth or width, 1ft.

(Greatest length, 3ft. 6in.; greatest length and girth combined, 6ft.

Letters, foreign bronze coins, arms and ammunitions of war, medicines (the components of which are not stated), parts of the vine, plants, bulbs fruits, fresh vegetables, gold or silver articles, jewellery, and lace.

Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.

(Letters, vine-plants, articles of gold or silver, or of exceptional value. Bullion, ostrich-feathers, intoxicating liquors of all descriptions.

(Letters, potatoes, &c., foreign lottery-tickets, plants with roots. (Via Belgium, addressees of parcels of medicine, except chemists, must obtain special license from the local authority.)

(For prohibitions via Lisbon, see Portugal. Prohibitions via France, nil. (* Maximum weight, 6¼lb.

Letters.

Same as Cape Colony.

Same as Cape of Good Hope.

(Letters, plants, game, fresh meat, air-guns, poignards, bayonets, sword-sticks, pistols, and revolvers of small calibre.

Letters, firearms, tobacco, and salt.

(Letters, potatoes, pork, bacon, &c., foreign lottery tickets, and plants.

(Spirits, cigars, or snuff (in packages less than 5lb. net weight), tobacco, cigarettes, opium, ganje, charas, bhang, cannabis indica, parts of dutiable articles (except by permission of the Governor).

(Letters, unpurified wax and paraffine, candles, lottery tickets, copper money, arms and ammunition, unmanufactured tobacco, worn clothing, plants, grapes, flowers, vegetables, medicines and poisonous drugs, unless addressed to chemists.

Letters and liquids.

Oleomargarine, butterine, and similar substitutes for butter.

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VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1893, No 29

In 1865 Parliament moved to Wellington and sat in the Wellington Provincial Council Chambers (depicted). Gradually expanded into a larger complex of buildings, it was replaced by the General Assembly Library in 1899

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