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(a.) Any such liquid or substance must be enclosed in a receptacle hermetically sealed, which receptacle must itself be placed in a strong wooden, leather, or metal case in such a way that it cannot move about, and with such a quantity of absorbent material—such as sawdust or cotton wool—as will absorb the whole of the contents of the package, so packed about the receptacle as absolutely to prevent any possible leakage from the package in the event of damage to the receptacle. The packet so made up must be conspicuously marked “Fragile, with care,” and bear the words “Pathological Specimen,” and also the signature and address of the medical practitioner or veterinary surgeon who sends it.

(b.) The packets must on no account be sent by parcel post, and any such packet found in the parcel post will be at once stopped and destroyed with all its wrappings and enclosures.

(c.) Packets of the kind not packed and marked as directed above sent by letter post are also liable to be stopped and destroyed.

PROHIBITED ARTICLES.

(See Dangerous Articles, p. 28; also sections 12-15, p. 31; 19-21, p. 33; and 13, p. 40.)

1. (a.) Any indecent or obscene print, painting, photograph, lithograph, engraving, book, or card, or any other indecent or obscene article;

(b.) Any letter, newspaper, publication, packet, or card having thereon any words, marks, or designs of an indecent, obscene, libellous, grossly offensive, or objectionable character (including in the term “objectionable character” the word “Debt,” or any other word or words indicating that the postal packet relates to a debt or liability for money, except the usual form of invoice or account);

(c.) Any postal packet (not a letter or a letter-card) advertising a lottery or other scheme of chance;

(d.) [The following is a list of addresses of persons or institutions sending lottery circulars for delivery within New Zealand which are to be stopped in the course of post and sent to the Dead Letter Office:—
Bank A. Török and Co., Limited (Royal Hungarian Lottery), Budapest or Buda-Pesth
Cunliffe, Russell, and Co., 10 and 12 Place de la Bourse, Paris
Jarmulowsky, Albert, Hamburg
Kornberg, J., Hamburg
Pfälzer, Salomon, Hamburg
Royal Hungarian Lottery (Bank A. Török and Co., Limited), Budapest or Buda-Pesth
Sorge, August, Hamburg
Straus, S., Hamburg 36, Bartelsstrasse 100, Germany
“Tattersall,” Hobart

(e.) The prohibition is not restricted to circulars from these persons only, but may be extended to any lottery-circulars observed in the post.
For list of persons and firms against whom warrants have been issued prohibiting the delivery of postal packets addressed to them, see pages 42 to 44.]

(f.) Matches of any kind;

(g.) Any letter, post-card, &c., bearing the imitation or the fac-simile representation of any postage-stamp or part thereof, or any fictitious or forged postage-stamp;

(h.) Any explosive, dangerous, or noxious substance;

(j.) Anything likely to injure the contents of the mails or any officer of the Post Office;

(k.) Any living creature, excepting live bees and harmless entomological specimens for delivery in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (see section 19, page 29, “Patterns and Samples”);

are detained and transmitted to the Dead Letter Office, to be there dealt with as undelivered and otherwise as the law directs.

(Under the Inland Parcel-post, however, fish, meat, game, eggs, &c., razors, scissors, needles, knives, forks, or other sharp instruments, are permitted to be forwarded if so packed as to prevent all risk of injury to other parcels or to the officers of the Post Office. Liquids, or semi-liquids, such as paint, &c., or glass in any form, are also received if so packed as to be secure from breakage.)

Every person who posts fire, or a match, or light, or any explosive, dangerous, or destructive substance or fluid, or any matter or thing likely to injure any postal packet or any person, is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

2. The transmission by post of gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c., to many countries (see column 6 of Table of British and Foreign Countries) is prohibited. Such articles may, however, be sent to such of the countries as have parcel-post exchanges with New Zealand, except in cases where the Parcel-post Regulations specially exclude their admission. Vine-cuttings, except such as are addressed to the care of the Agricultural Department, are not permitted to be imported into New Zealand; any received through the post, unless so addressed, will be delivered to the Customs. A Maori antiquity must not be exported from New Zealand without the express permission in writing of the Minister of Internal Affairs, and any person found guilty of attempting to do so is liable to a fine not exceeding £100 in addition to the forfeiture of the article.

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