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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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[No. 3]

2. Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid pattern or sample packets are treated in the same manner as unpaid or insufficiently prepaid “printed papers.”

3. If “commercial papers” are included in a pattern or sample packet, then the rates applicable to “commercial papers” must be paid on such packets. “Printed papers” may be enclosed with pattern and sample packets. A stamped envelope for reply may be enclosed with a sample at sample-post rates of postage.

4. Pattern and sample packets (except such as are absolutely prohibited) bearing or containing writing beyond that authorised in section 11, or such as may be closed against inspection, or contain enclosures not authorised by these rules, if posted for any place within New Zealand, are sent to destination surcharged simple letter rate, less the postage already affixed. (The fine on open packets will not exceed 6d. if the written matter does not represent more than a foolscap sheet of writing.) If addressed to any place beyond New Zealand the packets will be detained, and sent to the Dead Letter Office for disposal.

Definitions.

5. The pattern and sample post for places beyond New Zealand is restricted to bonâ fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise, and natural-history specimens not forwarded for commercial purposes. Patterns or samples must be of no saleable value, or they will be detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office. Packets containing articles of saleable value may be sent at sample rates to any place within New Zealand. Packets containing watches, jewellery, &c., may be sent under this regulation, but must, if the value exceeds ten shillings, be registered. See section 18, page 33, also “Bullion and Jewellery,” Parcel Post regulations.

6. Samples of eider-down, raw or thread silk, woollen or goats’ hair thread, vanilla, or isinglass are inadmissible if they weigh more than 3 oz.

7. Wedding-cake may be forwarded by sample-post to places within New Zealand and Australia if securely packed in tin boxes and marked “Packet Post.” For other places beyond New Zealand wedding-cake must be paid for at letter rates of postage or sent by parcel-post, and must be enclosed in tin boxes. Such packets, unless fully prepaid at letter or parcel rates, will be detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office.

8. Cinematograph films posted in New Zealand addressed to places within New Zealand are accepted at sample-packet rates if within the maximum weight and dimensions, and at parcel rates if not. Films for places beyond New Zealand are required to be sent as parcels. Undeveloped films of foreign manufacture are subject to Customs duty.

9. Packets not bonâ fide samples or patterns may be sent by parcel-post to any of the countries with which parcel-post exchanges exist.

How to Pack.

10. Patterns or samples, when practicable, must be sent in covers open at the end, and packed in such manner as to be easy of examination; but samples of seeds, drugs, and such-like articles, which cannot be sent in covers of this kind, may be posted enclosed in boxes or in bags of linen, or other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened. (See “Dangerous Articles.”)

No Writing allowed.

11. Patterns and samples must not bear any writing except the name and address of the sender, the address, a manufacturer’s trade-mark, numbers, prices, and indications relative to weight or size, or to the quantity to be disposed of.

12. Writing in characters such as Chinese, &c., will render the packet liable to letter rates of postage.

Dangerous Articles.

(See also Prohibited Articles, page 41.)

13. Such articles as scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch-machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, provided that they are packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mail-bags and to the officers of the Post Office, while at the same time they may be easily examined, may be forwarded as samples.

14. Articles of glass must be securely packed in boxes of metal, wood, leather, or cardboard, so as to prevent all danger to correspondence or postal officers. Samples of glass posted in covers of corrugated cardboard fastened at the ends with staples which may be pulled apart to allow of examination of the contents are not regarded as being closed against inspection.

15. Tubes of serum and pathological specimens may be sent if rendered innocuous by their mode of preparation and packing.

16. Liquids, oils, and fatty substances which are easily liquefied must be enclosed in glass bottles hermetically sealed. Each bottle must be placed in a wooden box furnished with sawdust, cotton-wool, or spongy material in sufficient quantity to absorb the liquid in case the bottle is broken. Finally the box itself must be enclosed either in a case of metal or of wood, with a screw top, or of strong and thick leather. When hollow wooden blocks, with minimum thickness of 2½ millimetres (about ⅛ in.), are used with sufficient quantity of absorbent material inside, and provided with a lid, the blocks need not be enclosed in a second case. Liquids, oils, and fatty substances, if insecurely packed, will be stopped. The public are warned that such insecurely packed packets come within the category of articles “likely to injure any postal packet or any person,” and are, therefore, prohibited from being sent by post. The senders of such packets are liable to penalties under “The Post and Telegraph Act, 1908,” whether the packets are sent by letter or by parcel post.