New Zealand Gazette – 1913 – No. 29

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✨ Parcel Post Regulations



APRIL 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to the sender. When a book of certificates is used up it is to be sent to the Chief Accountant.

821. Should a parcel for transmission to an office outside New Zealand be received from a sub-office without a form of Customs declaration, or without the particulars required in the form, it must not be sent forward until the necessary particulars are obtained.

822. Officers despatching parcel-mails to Monte Video must attach a despatch-note, C. & F. P.P. 7, in addition to the usual Customs declaration, C. & F. P.P. 1. The weights on these forms must be shown in grammes, the avoirdupois weights being converted by means of the gramme conversion card.

823. The route by which parcel-mails are despatched to Cape Town and Durban is to be shown on the parcel-bills as “direct” or “via Melbourne” as the case may be.

824. Postmasters will send parcels for Victoria and South Australia forward on Auckland or Invercargill, as the case may require, when a more expeditious despatch is likely to be secured thereby. The despatch via Wellington is to be utilized in other cases.

825. Parcel-mails for places beyond New Zealand are made up as follows:—

Invercargill to
Tasmania,
Victoria,
South Australia,
Western Australia,
Straits Settlements,
Ceylon,
India.

Auckland to
Victoria,
New South Wales,
Queensland,
San Francisco,
Chicago,
Honolulu,
Philippine Islands,
Pago Pago,
Fiji,
Samoa (Apia),
Tonga,
Natal,
Cape of Good Hope,
Norfolk Island,
Canada,
Uruguay,
London.

Wellington to
London,
Victoria,
New South Wales,
Queensland,
South Australia,
Cape of Good Hope,
Natal,
San Francisco,
Chicago,
Hong Kong,
Uruguay.

Christchurch to
London,
Uruguay.

It may, however, happen that a steamer will leave another New Zealand port, in which case a special mail should be made up. Foreign parcels sent forward for despatch should invariably be enclosed in hampers.

826. The parcel-mail for San Francisco is to include registered parcels for the whole of U.S.A. and ordinary parcels for the States not included in the parcel-mail for Chicago. The parcel-mail for Chicago is to include ordinary parcels for the following



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Parcel post, Regulations, Customs declaration, Despatch routes, International mail