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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia,
South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Registered parcels
for the United States to be forwarded to Seattle are to be en-
closed in a separate receptacle from the ordinary parcel-mail.
The parcel-mail from Rarotonga to San Francisco is to include all
parcels for the United States of America.

631. The route by which parcel-mails are despatched to Cape
     Town and Durban is to be shown on the parcel-bills as “direct”
     or “via Melbourne” as the case may be.

632. Postmasters will send parcels for Victoria and South
     Australia forward on Auckland or Invercargill, as the case may
     require, when a more expeditious despatch is likely to be secured
     thereby. The despatch via Wellington is to be utilized in other
     cases.

633. (a.) When a parcel is presented for despatch to any place
     outside the Dominion (the Cook Islands and Western Samoa not
     excepted), the sender must be furnished with the necessary
     Customs declaration form or forms (P.P. 23), and requested to
     fill in the information required. The declaration or declarations
     must then be date-stamped and either securely gummed or pinned
     to the parcel as indicated in column 7 of the Foreign Parcel-
     post Table of the Guide. This column also shows the number
     of identical copies of Customs declarations required for parcels
     addressed to the different countries. Officers accepting parcels
     for the United Kingdom are to see that the particulars of the
     Customs declarations are full and precise, and that in the case
     of parcels containing articles of different kinds the exact quantity
     of each kind is stated; also, in the case of parcels containing
     dutiable articles of British Empire origin, are to direct the atten-
     tion of the senders to the necessity for enclosing certificates of
     origin in the relative parcels.

(b.) Should a parcel for transmission to an office outside New
Zealand be received from a sub-office without a form of Customs
declaration, or without the particulars required in the form, it must
not be sent forward until the necessary particulars are obtained.

(c.) A despatch-note (form P.P. 24) in addition to the usual
Customs declaration is required for parcels addressed to certain
foreign countries. The despatch-note, which is to be filled in by
the sender, is to be pinned to the parcel under the string. The
information as to the countries concerned is shown in column 7 of
the Foreign Parcel-post Table of the Guide. Should a parcel for
which a despatch-note is required be received at an office which
despatches oversea parcel-mails, without the necessary despatch-
note, a despatch-note in respect of the parcel is to be prepared and
attached to the parcel by such despatching office concerned.

(d.) The accepting officer must see that a permit to export is
presented with the parcel when such is necessary. The words
“Permit produced” must be entered in the “Remarks” column
of the parcel-bill against the entry after the permit has been
exhibited. A permit of the Minister of Internal Affairs must be
produced for the despatch beyond the Dominion of any parcel
containing a Maori antiquity or the skins or feathers of native
birds. In any case of doubt whether an article comes within the
definition of a Maori antiquity (see Guide) the matter should be
referred to the Secretary for decision, the article in doubt being
held meanwhile.

634. When a parcel is presented for despatch to the United
     Kingdom or Fiji, the sender’s attention is to be drawn to the
     regulations published in the Guide, providing for the abandon-
     ment, delivery at an alternative address, or the return, of the
     parcel.