Aug. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2981

7. Mushrooms shall not be sent through the post unless they are enclosed in liquid-tight tins and securely packed.

8. No Maori antiquities or curiosities or articles of Maori workmanship, or apparently of Maori workmanship, shall be accepted for transmission by parcel-post to places beyond New Zealand unless they are accompanied by the permit of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

9. Tobacco may be imported into New Zealand by parcel-post without restriction.

10. Parcels of bullion shall be accepted for inland transmission subject to the same conditions as to size and weight as ordinary parcels.

11. All plants, bulbs, fruit, &c., received by parcel-post from places beyond the Dominion and accompanied by the requisite certificate shall, if after inspection by an officer of the Department of Agriculture they are found to be free from disease, be admitted at the Ports of Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington, and Bluff only; if received at any other port in the Dominion, they shall be despatched at once to the nearest of these five offices to be first inspected by an officer of the Department of Agriculture.

12. Before delivery of any parcel (inland or foreign) a receipt shall be obtained from the addressee.

13. For the purpose of assessing the charge for demurrage watches shall not be deemed to be jewellery.

UNCLAIMED PARCELS.

14. If an inland parcel is not claimed in fourteen days the sender shall be advised. If in such a case redirection is required a fresh rate of postage shall be charged. A charge for postage insufficiently prepaid in the first instance shall not be waived on the return of an undelivered parcel.

15. Parcels originating in the United States of America or any of its dependencies, and unclaimed at the expiration of thirty days from their receipt at the office of destination, shall be returned to the office of origin without charge. Parcels originating in other countries which cannot be delivered shall be kept at the office to which they are addressed for one clear month irrespective of the one in which they are received, and, if not claimed, forwarded to the chief post-office. The senders shall be advised through the Post Office of the country of origin, and in the absence of instructions the parcels originating in Australia shall be retained for four months, and those from other countries six months, from the date of posting of the advice of non-delivery, and then returned through the Dead Letter Office to the countries whence they were received.

REDIRECTED PARCELS.

16. Where the original and corrected addresses of a redirected parcel are both within a delivery from the same post-office, a new rate of postage shall not be charged for each redirection. Parcels addressed to His Excellency the Governor and his household shall be readdressed without charge within New Zealand. Parcels shall not be redirected to the United States of America unless the redirection fee is prepaid in New Zealand.

INSURANCE OF PARCELS.

17. A parcel of which the contents have no saleable value may be insured for a nominal sum in order to obtain the safeguards of the insurance system; the fee payable shall be the minimum one.

18. A fresh insurance fee shall not be charged on an insured parcel for each redirection within New Zealand. Ordinary redirection charges only shall be levied, and the insurance shall be maintained without additional charge.

19. In the case of a parcel originating outside New Zealand, no application for compensation shall be entertained unless it is made within twelve months from the date of posting.

20. Where the insurance system is shown in column 7 of the following table to be restricted to particular post-offices, only parcels addressed to those offices shall be accepted for insurance, unless the note “See clause 20, page 2981,” appears against the entry. In that case parcels for destinations beyond the post-offices named shall also be accepted for insurance, but only for that part of the journey which terminates at one or other of those offices. The covers of the parcels accepted under this agreement must be endorsed by the sender “To be insured as far as the service permits.”