'Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide 1930' [‎34v] (71/483)

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liquid in case the bottle be broken. Finally, the box itself,
if it is of brittle wood, must be enclosed in a second case of
metal, or of wood with a screw top. of strong corrugated
cardboard or stout thick leather.
(V) Fatty substances which are not easily liquefied, such as oint
ments. soft soaps, resin, etc. as well as silkworm eggs must
be enclosed in an inner cover (box bag of linen or parch
ment etc,) which must itself be placed in a second box of
wood, metal or stout thick leather.
(d) Dry colouring powders must be placed in stout tin boxes
placed inside wooden boxes with saw-dust between the two
covers ; and dry powders, not dyes, must be placed inboxes
of meial, wood, or card-board. These boxes themselves
be'enclosed in a bag of linen or parchment,
(e) Samples of liquids and fatty substances and those enclosed
in linen or paper envelopes of little strength must have a
label, preferably of p archment, attached with the address of
the addressee, the postage stamp and the impression of the
date stamps. The address must be repeated on the article
itself.
(fj Live bees must be enclosed in boxes so constructed as to
prevent all danger and to allow the contents to be as
certained.
(f/J Articles, such as tinned foods or boxes for preserve, which
would be spoilt if packed in the prescribed manner may
exceptionally be admitted in a cover hermetically sealed.
In that case the sender or addressee may be required to assist
in the check of the contents, either by opening certain
packets or in some other satisfactory manner.
(3) Printers blocks, keys sent singly, fresh-cut flowers, object of
natural history dried or preserved, animals and plants, geological speci
mens and other objects, as also tubes of serum and pathological objects
rendered innocuous by their mode of preparation and packing, are also
admitted to transmission at the rate of postage for samples of
merchandise, provided these articles, except tubes of serum, sent in
the general interest by laboratories or institutions officially recognised,
are not sent for a commercial purpose, and they are packed in the
manner prescribed for samples of merchandise generally.
135, Penalty for Breach of Conditions,— Packets of samples
which contain letter or manuscript notes having the character of actual
or personal correspondence, or which are not made up in the manner
prescribed, or which exceeds the limits of the weight and size fixed for
samples (vide Foreign Post Directory) or which contain anything having-
saleable value or which in other respects do not fulfil the conditions
laid down in the preceding clauses will not be forwarded.