✨ Parcel Post Rates and Conditions
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29
BRITISH, INTERCOLONIAL, AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST—continued.
Colony or Country, Route, and Special Prohibitions
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Cape Colony—
- Cape Town ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, specie, bullion, gold-dust, nuggets, ostrich feathers, tobacco-stalks, essences of tea, coffee, chicory, or tobacco, parts of the vine, fruits, plants, cuttings, bulbs, or roots, unless accompanied by the certificate required by the Colonial authorities. (Department accepts no responsibility in connection with such certificates.) When plants are sent, Customs declaration or cover must be indorsed "Certificate enclosed."
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Cape Colony—
- Other places ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.
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Cayenne ...
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: (Arms and ammunition, parts (sent separately) of articles which are liable to Customs duty.
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Ceylon ...
- Route: Melbourne
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, plants, arms and implements of war, and articles injurious to health.
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Chili ...
- Route: London-Hamburg
- Special Prohibitions: (Letters, plants, arms and implements of war, and articles injurious to health.
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China. See Hongkong.
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Cochin China ...
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.
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Colombia, Republic of ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, arms, and ammunition.
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Congo Free State ...
- Route: London-Holland
- Special Prohibitions: Parcels for the Lower Congo will also be liable to a charge of 1 franc, and parcels for the Upper Congo to a charge of 5 francs, on delivery.
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Constantinople ...
- Route: London-Liverpool
- Special Prohibitions: Firearms, tobacco, and salt. (Medicine must be accompanied by the prescription.)
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Constantinople ...
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, articles of gold and silver, jewellery, &c., tobacco, salt, and firearms.
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Corsica ...
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: For prohibitions see France.
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Costa Rica ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, arms, ammunition.
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Cyprus ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Locust eggs, salt, silver and copper coins, tobacco, cigars, and snuff.
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Dar-es-Salaam ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters.
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Demerara. See British Guiana.
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Denmark ...
- Route: London-Hamburg
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, foreign lottery-tickets and prospectuses, imitations of money, notes, or bills, potatoes, almanacs.
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Denmark ...
- Route: London-Belgium
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, foreign lottery-tickets and prospectuses, imitations of money, notes, or bills, potatoes, almanacs.
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Diego Suarez. See Madagascar.
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Dominica. See Leeward Islands.
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Egypt ...
- Route: London-Gibraltar
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, arms (unless addressed to members of the British Army), materials for the composition of gunpowder, salt, hachish, poisons (unless addressed to chemists or druggists), books of the Mussulman religion, and (via Brindisi) gold, silver, jewellery, tobacco, plants, pork, bacon, sausages, &c.
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Egypt ...
- Route: London-Brindisi
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, arms (unless addressed to members of the British Army), materials for the composition of gunpowder, salt, hachish, poisons (unless addressed to chemists or druggists), books of the Mussulman religion, and (via Brindisi) gold, silver, jewellery, tobacco, plants, pork, bacon, sausages, &c.
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England. See United Kingdom.
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Eritrea (Asmara, Assab, Keren, and Massowah)
- Route: London-Italy
- Special Prohibitions: For prohibitions see Italy.
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Falkland Islands ...
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, brandy, guns, sword-sticks, &c., playing-cards, Finnish and Russian silver or copper coins, church effects, ether, skin and fur of sea-otters
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Faröe Islands. Same as Denmark.
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Finland ...
- Route: London-Sweden
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, secret and forbidden arms, ammunition, game out of season, foreign bronze coin, tobacco (unless addressed to the "Régie" or in limited quantities for personal use of addressee), essence of tobacco, playing-cards, shrubs, young trees, parts of the vine, gold or silver articles, jewellery, lace, objects of art.
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France (not including Corsica). (Parcels for Saubvemy must be prepaid at the rates for Switzerland)
- Route: London ...
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.
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French Congo (Loango, Gaboon, &c.)
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.
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French Guiana ...
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.
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Gaboon (Benito and Libreville)
- Route: London-France
- Special Prohibitions: Letters, gold, silver, jewellery, &c.
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