New Zealand Gazette – 1915 – No. 100

Page 3011

✨ 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			£12	£24.	£36.	£48.
1.	2.	3 lb.	7 lb.	11 lb.	Length, Breadth, or Depth.	Length and Girth combined.	Insured Value.
VENEZUELA ..	London	s. d. 3 2	s. d. 4 6	s. d. 5 10	Feet. 3½	Feet. 6	£ ..	s. d. ..	s. d. ..
VICTORIA ..	(See Australia).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
WALFISH BAY	(See South Africa, Union of).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
WESTERN AUSTRALIA	(See Australia).	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
ZANZIBAR (see col. 7)	{London	1 8	3 4	5 0	3½	6	400	0 7	1 0
	Colombo	3 2	5 2	7 3			50	0 10	1 6
	India ..	4 0	4 8	5 4			50	0 8	1 2

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

Special Prohibitions and Observations.

7.	8.
Prohibitions.—Cocoanut-oil, starch, indigo, cocoa, coffee, syrup, honey, salt, sarsaparilla-roots, cigarette-paper, cigarettes of all sorts, machines for making them, and empty cigarette boxes or packets unless addressed to the National Government, saccharine and its products, coin, dies for coining, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods. Observations.—Detailed particulars of the contents and the exact weight of parcel must be entered on the Customs declaration. A separate set of declarations must be prepared for each parcel. No more than twenty kilogrammes of merchandise of one sort may be imported by one addressee by a single mail except on condition of a 10-per-cent. increase of Customs duties and other legal taxes. Parcels must be very strongly packed. If packed in paper only they cannot be accepted.	Venezuela.
	Victoria.
	Walfish Bay.
	Western Australia.
{ Prohibitions.—Opium, bullion exceeding £5 in value, oilskins and similar goods. Observations.—No compensation is paid in respect of loss or damage of uninsured parcels or their contents. Parcels may be accepted for any place in the Zanzibar Protectorate, including Pemba; but delivery is confined to the Town of Zanzibar and to Chaki-Chaki and Weti in the island of Pemba; and the addressees of parcels for other places in the Protectorate must arrange accordingly. Via London, uninsured parcels must not exceed £50 in value. }	Zanzibar.