New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 100

Page 3003

✨ 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.
ROUMANIA ..	London	s. d. 2 7	s. d. 3 7	s. d. 4 7	Feet. 3½	Feet. 6	£ 400	s. d. 0 8	s. d. 1 2	s. d. 1 8	s. d. 2 2	s. d. 2 8*
R U S S I A I N EUROPE (including Finland and Trans-Caucasia)	London	2 7	3 7	4 7	3½	6	400	0 8	1 1	1 6	2 0	2 6*
R U S S I A I N ASIA	London	3 7	4 7	5 7	3½	6	400	0 8	1 1	1 6	2 0	2 6*
ST. HELENA ..	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½	6	50	0 7	1 0	1 5	1 10	2 3
ST. KITT’S ..	(See Leeward Islands).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
ST. LUCIA ..	London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½	6	120	0 7	1 0	1 5	1 10	2 3*
ST. PIERRE and MIQUELON	London	2 8	3 8	4 8	2	4	..	..	..	..	..	..

For insurance of parcels over

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

Special Prohibitions and Observations.	Place of Destination
7.	8.
Prohibitions.—Coin, oilskins and similar goods, ikons (religious images or pictures), photographs and reproductions of works representing scenes from foreign history, soiled paper, cotton-waste, coffee prepared with colouring matter, arms (unless specially authorized) and ammunition, colouring matter and essences used for the manufacture or adulteration of wine, saccharine (unless for authorized chemists), patent medicines and pharmaceutical preparations (except to authorized institutions), trees and plants of all kinds (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate), food (unless accompanied by a sanitary certificate countersigned by a Roumanian Consul). Tobacco in any form, cigarette-papers, playing-cards, salt, mineral waters, and weights and measures of any kind are only admitted by special permission.	Roumania.
Observations.—Contents should be described in detail in French on the Customs declaration according to the terms of the Roumanian tariff. The value and net weight of each kind of article or goods must be stated. Parcels containing goods sent for purposes of trade must in all cases be accompanied by invoices.
Prohibitions.—Coin, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods, used Russian postage-stamps, labels not sent with the goods to which they apply, plants (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate), all parts of the vine except grapes, gold or silver articles not up to the proper standard, prize coupons, swordsticks, air-guns, arms (except by special permission to be obtained by the addressee), playing-cards, unauthorized medicines, articles coloured with arsenical dyes, aniline and similar dyes except in crystal form, margarine products, artificial saffron, compounds described as “tea,” but containing mixtures of other herbs; and to Finland: brandy, poisons, potatoes, alcoholic varnish; articles of celluloid except in wooden boxes.	Russia in Europe.
Observations.—Parcels must be packed in wood, tin, canvas, linen, or similar material, and not merely in paper or cardboard, and be securely sealed with wax or lead, preferably lead. Parcels not packed in wooden or metal boxes must be covered with canvas, linen, or oilcloth (not linen-faced paper), sewn up at the flaps and folds, and secured with string sealed at the knots and ends. Wooden boxes must be of stout material, well screwed or nailed together at the sides, top, and bottom. Addresses must be clearly written. The name of the town and province should be added in English, French, or German. Customs declarations must show the gross weight (in grammes) of the parcel, including the packing, and the total value of the parcel must be stated. No erasure or amendment may be made in the entries relating to the quantity or the quality of the contents. A separate entry must be made of each kind of article or goods, describing precisely in each case the quality according to the commercial denomination, the quantity (according to ordinary trade usage) by number, measurement, and net weight (in grammes), and the value both in Russian and in English currency. Neglect of these regulations will lead to the rejection of the parcel by the Russian Customs and its return to the sender.
Same as Russia in Europe.	Russia in Asia.
Prohibitions.—Bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods.	St. Helena.
Observations.—No parcel may exceed £50 in value
..	St. Kitt’s.
Prohibitions.—Bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods.	St. Lucia.
Prohibitions.—Same as France, except that tobacco is admitted.	St. Pierre and Miquelon.