New Zealand Gazette – 1905 – No. 51

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✨ Parcel Post Rates Table

BRITISH, AUSTRALASIAN, AND FOREIGN PARCEL POST.—TABLE OF RATES OF POSTAGE, ETC.—continued.

Place of Destination.	Route.	Rates of Postage.	Limits of	Insurance Fees payable to secure Compensation up to	Special Prohibitions.	Observations.	Place of Destination.
		Parcels not exceeding	Size.
		8lb.	7lb.	11lb.	Length, Breadth, or Depth.	Length and Girth combined.	Insured Value.
1.	2.	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.	Feet.	Feet.	£

Senegal (including Bandiagara, Bobo-Diulasso, Kayes (Timbuctu in French Sudan), parcels for which are charged 6 francs on delivery) | London ... | 2 11 | 4 1 | 5 3 | 2 | 4 | 20 (see col. 8) | 0 9 | 1 3 | ... | ... | ... | Same as France, except tobacco, which may be sent in any quantity | Insurance confined to parcels for Dakar, Goree, Rufisque, and St. Louis, Thiès, Tivaouane, Louga, N'Dande, Dagana, Podor, Fatick, Kaolack, Foundiougne, and Ziguinchor | Senegal.

Servia ... | London ... | 2 5 | 3 7 | 4 9 | 3½ | 6 | 20 | 0 8 | 1 2 | ... | ... | ... | Letters, parts of the vine | ... | Servia.

Seychelles ... | London ... | 2 8 | 4 4 | 6 0 | 3½ | 6 | 20 | 0 9 | 1 5 | ... | ... | ... | Letters, worn clothes, &c., if intended for sale; counterfeit coin | ... | Seychelles.
| India | Not over 1lb. | 2 8 | | | 2 | 4½ | 20 | 0 7 | 1 0 | ... | ... | ... | | |
| | For each additional lb. or fraction of a lb. up to 11lb. ... | 0 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Siam (Bangkok, Chiengmai, Lampang, Packnampoh (Nakon Sawan), and Raheng only)(see col. 8) | London ... | 2 8 | 4 4 | 6 0 | 3½ | 6 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Letters, arms, opium, jewellery | No parcel must exceed £5 in value for despatch via London. Via India—Parcels containing umbrellas, sticks, maps, plans, or similar articles will be accepted up to a maximum of 3ft. 3in. in length, provided they do not exceed 7¾in. in breadth or thickness | Siam.
| India | Not over 1lb. | 4 4 | | | 2 | 4½ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | | |
| | For each additional lb. or fraction of a lb. up to 11lb. ... | 0 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Sicily (same as Italy) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Sicily.

Sierra Leone | London ... | 1 8 | 3 4 | 5 0 | 3½ | 6 | 50 | 0 7 | 1 0 | 1 5 | 1 10 | 2 3 | ... | ... | Sierra Leone.

Smyrna (British Post-office) | London ... | 1 8 | 2 10 | 4 0 | 3½ | 6 | 20 | 0 7 | 1 0 | ... | ... | ... | Same as Turkey | ... | Smyrna.

Somaliland (British Protectorate),(see also French Somali Coast) | India | Not over 1lb. | 2 9 | | | 3½ | 6 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Same as India | The value entered in the Customs declaration must be stated both in Indian and English money | Somaliland.
| | For each additional lb. or fraction of a lb. up to 11lb. ... | 0 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| London | 1 8 | 3 4 | 5 0 | | | | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | | |

Soudan (see Egypt and Senegal) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Soudan.

South Australia | Melbourne | Not over 1lb. | 0 8 | | | 3½ | 6 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Coin or bullion, vine-cuttings | ... | South Australia
| | For each additional lb. or fraction of a lb. up to 11lb. ... | 0 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | |

Spain (see col. 8) | London ... | 2 8 | 3 4 | ... | 2 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | Letters, firearms, and ammunition, air-guns, reproductions of Spanish maps or plans, missals, breviaries, rosaries, relics, &c., medicine not accompanied by the prescription, wax vestas and all kinds of matches, substances containing saccharine, unmanufactured tobacco, tobacco seed and juice, plants, gold, silver, jewellery, &c. | Limit of weight, 6½lb. Parcels are not delivered at Algeciras, Lorca, and Palma di Majorca, or at any place which has not a railway-station | Spain.

*No parcel of plants or portions thereof shall be introduced into South Australia from any country where the insect known as Phylloxera vastatrix is known to exist unless accompanied by a declaration made by the grower before a Justice of the Peace, or British consular agent in the State or country of origin, to the following effect: (a) That the case contains no grape vines or portions thereof; (b) that the plants were grown at a greater distance than fifty yards from any grape vines or roots of vines; (c) that no phylloxera exists or has existed in the nursery

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1905, No 51

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🚂 Table of Postage Rates for British, Australasian, and Foreign Parcel Post (continued from previous page)

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated26 May 1905
KeywordsParcel Post, Postage Rates, International Mail, Insurance Fees, Size Limits, Prohibitions, Delivery Charges, Senegal, Servia, Seychelles, Siam, Sicily, Sierra Leone, Smyrna, Somaliland, Soudan, South Australia, Spain

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