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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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odour must be kept apart and packed in separate receptacles. When a basket is fitted with a tray, the tray must be fastened down with the strap, so as to steady the contents; and when bags are used they must be tied close to the contents. Trays should invariably be sent with their corresponding baskets. The use of unnecessarily large receptacles, or of an unnecessary number, must be avoided.
626. Hampers must always be handled with care, and when placed on coach, steamer, or train the lid must always be uppermost. (See Rule 306).
627. When parcels can without injury to their contents be enclosed in the ordinary letter-bags the use of hampers may be dispensed with. Where this is done a parcel-bill must be sent with the letter-bill, and the words “In letter-bag” written on the bill.
DESPATCH OF FOREIGN PARCEL-MAILS.
628. The hour of closing parcel-mails for places outside the colony should be timely notified, and a paragraph inserted in the mail-notices giving the latest time for receipt of parcels. The post-office at the port from which the steamer takes her final departure will be the despatching office. Parcels from other places must reach the despatching office at least four hours before the closing of the ordinary mail.
629. Each parcel must be legibly entered on the parcel-bill, and the address stated as fully as possible. The parcel-bill must be in triplicate—one copy (with the receptacle-list in the case of London) to accompany the mail, another to be enclosed in an envelope and forwarded by mail to office of address, and the third sent to the Inspector with a copy of the receptacle-list. Parcel-bills should be numbered consecutively, beginning with No. 1 in each year. A parcel-post label is to be affixed to each receptacle.
630. A special parcel-bill is provided for exclusive use between New Zealand offices, London, Colombo, India, and Apia. The bill provides three rate-columns. Parcels not over 3 lb. in weight are to be entered in the first column; over 3 lb. but not over 7 lb. in the second, and over 7 lb. but not over 11 lb. in the third column. In the case of transit parcels the rate-columns are to be left blank.
631. The route by which parcel-mails are despatched to Cape Town and Natal is to be shown on the parcel-bills as “Direct” or “via Melbourne” as the case may be. In the case of Cape Town, parcels for the Orange River Colony are to be entered and totalled separately, and the amount to be credited Cape Town left blank. If numerous, parcels for the Orange River Colony should be entered
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