New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 100

Page 2999

✨ Parcel-Post Rates and Prohibitions

BRITISH, AUSTRALASIAN, AND FOREIGN PARCEL

Place of Destination.	Route.	Rates of Postage.			Limits of Size.		Insured Value.	Insurance fees payable to secure Compensation up to
		Parcels not exceeding			Length, Breadth, or Depth.	Length and Girth combined.		£12.	£24.	£36.	£48.	£60.
1.	2.	3 lb.	7 lb.	11 lb.	4.		5.	6.
MOZAMBIQUE..	(See Portuguese East Africa).	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.	Feet.	Feet.	£	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.
NATAL	(See South Africa, Union of).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
NEVIS	(See Leeward Islands).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
NEW CALEDONIA	Sydney	Not over 1 lb.	2	3	2	4	..	..	..	..	..	..
		For each additional lb. or fraction of a lb. up to 11 lb.	0	7
NEWFOUNDLAND	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½	6	400	0 7	1 0	1 5	1 10	2 3*
NEW GUINEA, BRITISH (Papua)	(See Papua).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
NEW GUINEA, GERMAN	(See German New Guinea).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
NEW HEBRIDES (including the Banks and Torres Islands)	Sydney	Not over 1 lb.	1	1	3½	6	..	..	..	..	..	..
		For each additional lb. or fraction of a lb. up to 11 lb. ..	0	10
NEW SOUTH WALES (including Norfolk Island)	(See Australia).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
NICARAGUA ..	London	3 8	5 10	8 0	3½	6	..	..	..	..	..	..
NIGERIA, NORTHERN	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½	6	..	..	..	..	..	..

For insurance of parcels over

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

Special Prohibitions and Observations.

7.	8.
..	Mozambique.
..	Natal.
	Nevis.
{Prohibitions.—Same as France with the additions of seeds and plants of the coffee-tree. Tobacco is, however, admitted.\nObservations.—Parcels may be accepted for any place in New Caledonia or its dependencies, but delivery is confined to Noumea.}	New Caledonia.
Prohibitions.—Salt which has been used in curing fish, prison-made goods, adulterated tea, worn clothes intended for sale, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods.	Newfoundland.
	New Guinea (British).
	New Guinea (German).
Prohibitions.—Same as France.\nObservations.—No compensation is paid in respect of loss or damage of parcels or their contents.	New Hebrides.
	New South Wales.
	New Zealand.
Prohibitions.—Liquids or substances easily liquefiable, alcohol, telegraphic and telephonic apparatus, arms, parts of firearms, police-whistles, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods.\nObservations.—Parcels are accepted for Bluefields, Boaco, Cape Gracias a Dios, Chinandega, Corinto, Esteli, Granada, Jinotega, Jinotepe, Juigalpa, Leon, Managua, Masaya, Matagalpa, Ocotal, Rama, Rivas, San Juan del Norte, San Juan del Sur, Somoto, and The Bluff. If the value of goods contained in a parcel or in several parcels sent by the same mail by one sender for the same addressee exceeds 50 dollars American gold, or £10 5s., the declaration must be certified by a Nicaraguan Consul. Parcels must be sealed and strongly packed.	Nicaragua.
Prohibitions.—Arms of precision; spirituous liquors and wines must be accompanied by a permit to import, signed by the Governor; coin, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods.\nObservations.—The addressees of parcels for all places in Northern Nigeria have to pay on delivery additional charges for inland conveyance. The conditions of transport in Northern Nigeria are exceptionally severe, and to prevent injury all parcels for Northern Nigeria should be very strongly packed. The senders of all parcels must indicate, by means of a label attached to the cover of the parcel, whether, in the event of non-delivery within twenty-eight days of its arrival at the office of destination, it shall be (a) treated as abandoned, or (b) returned at the sender’s expense. No other alternative is permissible.	Nigeria, Northern.