New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 100

Page 3007

✨ 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
		Parcels not exceeding	Size.
		3 lb.	7 lb.	11 lb.
1.	2.	s. d.	s. d.	s. d.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS (see col. 7)	{ Direct
London	2 0	3 0	4 0	3½
		1 8	3 4	5 0
SWEDEN	London	10	3 2	4 6
SWITZERLAND	{ London-France	2 0	3 0	4 0
	{ London-Belgium (route suspended)	2 3	3 3	4 3
TAHITI	(See French Settlements of Oceania).	..	..	..
TASMANIA	(See Australia).	..	..	..
TIBET	(See India).	..	..	..
TOBAGO	Same as Trinidad.	..	..	..
TOGOLAND	London (service suspended)	2 10	3 10	4 10

For insurance of parcels over

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

Special Prohibitions and Observations.

7.	8.
{ Prohibitions.—Spirits and bhang; firearms, parts of firearms and ammunition, except under permit; opium, morphia, morphine, and cocaine, unless addressed to the Principal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements; hypodermic syringes, except under special license from the Medical Department. Drugs should be fully described in the Customs Declaration; otherwise they are liable to be detained for examination.
Observations.—Straits Settlements comprises Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Labuan, Malacca, Penang, Province Wellesley, and Singapore. For Malay States, see separate entry. Communication with the Cocos Islands, where there is no Post-office, is irregular and infrequent.	Straits Settlements.
Prohibitions.—Bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods, manufactured gold and silver not of a certain degree of fineness, some pharmaceutical products and arsenic (unless addressed to a State pharmacy or to specially authorized persons). Articles made abroad, which bear the name of a place, property, manufactory or tradesman in Sweden, or any marking in Swedish to explain the nature of the goods, must bear the word “import” or the name and domicile of the foreign manufacturer applied conspicuously and indelibly. Goods which do not comply with this regulation are confiscated.
Observations.—Parcels exceeding 1 kilogramme (2½ lb.) in weight are not delivered, except in Stockholm, but must be claimed at a Post-office.	Sweden.
{ Prohibitions.—Coin, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods, newspapers and post-cards intended for distribution, glassware with Swiss Federal or Cantonal gauge-marks, salt (unless with the permission of Cantonal authorities), alcohol (unless addressed to Federal authority) and other spirits (unless gross weight and percentage of alcohol are shown on the Customs declaration), earth compost, grapes addressed to places in the Canton Valais, vines and parts thereof, other plants and bulbs (unless accompanied by a phylloxera certificate and a special permit from the Federal Department of Agriculture), preserved meat in sealed receptacles, must be marked with the description of the contents and the name or trade-mark of the manufacturer or vendor. All parcels containing meat must be accompanied by a certificate of origin and inspection of approved form.
Observations.—The Customs declarations for parcels for Switzerland must be made out in the French language. It is very desirable that this should be done by the sender whenever practicable. No compensation is given for damage in Switzerland to parcels containing liquids.	Switzerland.
	Tahiti.
	Tasmania.
	Tibet.
	Tobago.
Prohibitions.—Bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods, plants requiring special care during transit; firearms and ammunition can only be imported through official depots.
Observations.—Insurance is confined to parcels for Agome-Palime, Anecho, and Lome.	Togoland.