New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 100

Page 2985

✨ Parcel-Post Rates and Prohibitions

BRITISH, AUSTRALASIAN, AND FOREIGN PARCEL

Place of Destination.	Route.	Rates of Postage.	Limits of	Insurance Fees payable to secure Compensation up to	Place of Destination.
		3.	4.	6.	8.
		Parcels not exceeding	Size.
		3 lb.	7 lb.	11 lb.	Length, Breadth, or Depth.
1.	2.	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.	Feet.
BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA PROTECTORATE	(See Nyasaland Protectorate)
BRITISH EAST AFRICA AND UGANDA	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½
BRITISH GUIANA	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½
BRITISH HONDURAS	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½
BRITISH NEW GUINEA (Papua)	(See Papua).	..	..	..	..
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½
	Singapore	2 2	3 4	4 6	3½
BRITISH SOMALILAND	(See Somaliland (British)).	..	..	..	..
BRUNEI	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½
	Singapore	2 2	3 4	4 6

*For insurance of parcels over £60 see special table following.

POST.—TABLE OF RATES OF POSTAGE, ETC.—continued.

Special Prohibitions and Observations.

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.. | British Central Africa Protectorate.
Prohibitions.—Manufactured articles bearing a false trade description. Opium and its preparations can only be imported if addressed to licensed dealers. Stone-fruit trees and parts thereof, eucalyptus, acacia, and coniferous plants and parts thereof, except seed, peach-stones, apple-stocks, including young rooted plants, coffee-plants, coffee-beans, coffee (except roasted beans and ground coffee) can only be imported by special permission of the Director of Agriculture. The importation of cotton-seed is subject to special restrictions. Plants other than those mentioned (unless accompanied by a certificate that they are free from disease) are liable to inspection and precautionary fumigation, and to destruction if pest or disease is found. Seed potatoes are admitted only when accompanied by a sworn declaration of origin and a prescribed Government certification in addition to the ordinary certificate. Observations.—Insurance confined to Entebbe, Jinga, Kampala, Kisumu, Lamu, Mombasa, Nairobi, and Nakuru (see clause 20, p. 2981). No compensation is paid in respect of loss or damage of uninsured parcels or their contents. All parcels are conveyed in British East Africa in ordinary mail-bags; and, to prevent injury, should be very strongly packed. Waterproof covers should be used for parcels intended for places beyond the services of the Uganda Railway. | British East Africa and Uganda.
Prohibitions.—Spirits, opium, and the following products derived from the hemp plant: ganja, charas, bhang, cannabis indica; parts of dutiable articles (except by permission of the Governor), bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods. | British Guiana.
Prohibitions.—Tobacco packed with other goods, tobacco sweetened with the leaves of trees or plants other than the tobacco-plant, saccharine and other substances of a like nature or use (such as saxon, &c., or mixtures of the same); shoddy, oilskins and similar goods. | British Honduras.
.. | British New Guinea.
} Prohibitions.—Opium, foreign coin, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods. Observations.—Insurance confined to Beaufort, Jesselton, Kotabelud, Kudat, Lahad-datu, Papar, Sandakan, Tangkulap, Tawao, Tenom, Tuaran, and Weston. | British North Borneo.
.. | British Somaliland.
{ Prohibitions.—Same as Straits Settlements. Observations.—No compensation is paid in respect of loss or damage of parcels or their contents. | Brunei.

Aug. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2985

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