1917

HONGKONG POSTAL GUIDE-Prohibited Contents
515
39a.—Same as Italy.
40. —Letters, rags, shoddy and disused
clothing.
40a. - Same as Denmark.
41. —Letters, secret and forbidden arms,
ammunition, game out of season (grouse
not included), fresh meat (except fillets
and sirloins of beef), birds of various
kinds, birds snared or netted, foreign
bronze coin, tobacco (unless addressed to
the “Regie” or in limited quantities for
the personal use of the addressee), essence
of tobacco, playing cards, shrubs, young
trees (unless accompanied by phylloxera
certificate), vine, cuttings with or without
roots, grapes. &c,, unless the consent of the
Government is previously obtained. Me¬
dicine is accepted at the sender’s risk, and
the prescription must be copied upon the
•Customs Declaration Form. Articles of
gold and silver and other precious articles
can only be sent in insured parcels, and
gold and silver jewellery not of the French
legal standard will be broken up before
being returned to the senders.
42. —Same as France, except that tobacco
is admitted without restriction.
43. —Same as France, except that tobacco
is admitted.
44. —Letters (except one for the ad¬
dressee.)
45. —Same as France, with the addition
-of opium and silver coin. Medicine,
Havana tobacco, and playing cards are,
however, admissible.
46. —Same as France. Letters, coin,
articles of gold or silver and other pre¬
cious articles.
47. —Guadeloupe.—Same as France, ex¬
cept that tobacco is admitted. Martinique:
letters.-
48. —Letters, plants, cuttings and leaves
•of vines from countries where phylloxera
•exists unless accompanied by a certificate,
cotton seeds (except in special conditions);
aims, parts of arms, accessories and am¬
munition, unless for the Government
Service or imported through official depots
•for persons other than natives; copper
coins of a design different from that of
the Society of Qerman East Africa, Maria
Theresa crown-pieces, and British East
African rupees.
48a.—Letters, arms and ammunition,
except for the Government or with a
Government permit ; vines and parts and
products of vines, except by the medium
of the Government; vsed props and sup¬
ports for trees and plants; hemp seed and
raw hemp. Rooted plants other than
vines a re liable to examination.
t9.—Letters, saccharine, and similar
products, an 1 preparations containing
•them ; loose playing cards and incomplete
packs of cards ; parts of the vine (except
grapes) ; earth compost : mushroom
spawn ; potatoes of American origin ;
fresh fruit infected with the San Jose
insect and plants of American, Australian
or Japanese origin (except water plants) ;
meat (except game and warm-blooded
water animals if in sound condition)
whether fresh (frozen, dried, smoked
pickled in vinegar) or prepared with
chemical preservatives or colouring mat¬
ter, or in sealed cases ; swine’s flesh of
American origin in any form (unless
accompanied by a proper sanitary certi¬
ficate) ; sausages and mixtures of minced
meat; salt meat in pieces weighing less
than 4 kilos, (8 lb. 13 oz.); the nests and
eggs of certain birds (but not the eggs of
gulls and plovers) ; birds of various kinds,
except poultry and game birds (subject to
German Game Laws).
50. —Arms, parts of firearms, ammuni¬
tion, utensils of war, naval or military
stores, unless special permission has been
obtained; essences of gin, rum, brandy
and whisky.
51. —Letters (except one for the ad¬
dressee) ; firearms, ammunition, machines
for making or filling cartridges.
52. —Letters, samples declared to be of
no value, copper and bronze money ; fresh
meat; worn linen and used bedding, un¬
less washed, old clothes, old shoes, rags,
old paper, playing cards, cigarette papers,
salt and other articles which fall within
the monopoly of the Greek Government;
saccharine and its products, unless ad¬
dressed to a chemist; vines, plants gen¬
erally and parts thereof, including flowers
and fruit, pig’s flesh, sausages, raw hides,
wool, horns, bone and other parts of oxen
and sheep, unless accompanied by a certi¬
ficate of origin properly authenticated by
a Greek Consul.
53. —Letters, powders or liquids likely
to damage correspondence, liquid poisons,
electric apparatus and firearms.
54. —Letters; pirated editions of copy¬
right works, bronze coins and bronze dies
for coining articles excluded by the
Phylloxera Convention ; grapes ; uncured
hides, flesh, wool, and hair of animals
(other than pigs’ bristles prepared for the
manufacture of brushes), except by per¬
mission of the Minister of Agriculture;
plants from America; gooseberry, currant
and raspberry plants, as well as tliematerial
in which they have been packed ; other
plants unless accompanied by a certificate
of origin.
55. —Letters ; poisons ; liquids, greasy
or easily liquefiable substances ; fruit or
vegetables which readily decompose ; dead
animals and insects unless stuffed.