HEAVY INCREASES

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20173, 27 February 1931, Page 10

HEAVY INCREASES

POST AND TELEGRAPH CHARGES. existing rates compared. Heavy increases in postal and telegraphic rates are contained in tho now acale of charges of the Post and Telegraph Department, which will come into effect on March Ist, 1931, Following are the postal rates, those at present in.force being added in parentheses: —

Letters and Letter-Cards. Inland: «2d for first oz and Id for each additional oz (Id and i&). Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Irish Free State, Australia, Canada, United States of America, and all other places to which Postal Union rates (minimum 2Jd) do not apply: 2d for first oz and Id for "each additional oz (Id and Id).

Postcards. Inland: Single, Id (id); reply, 2d (Id). .

Registration Pee. For all places: 4d (3d). Acknowledgment of receipt for registered articles (for all places) 3d (2*d).

Late Fee. Letters: 2d (Id). Packets. (Comprising commercial papers, books, and printed papers, pattern and sample packets, and unregistered magazines.) Inland: Id for each 4oz up to lib and 4d for each additional lb up to 51b (3d for the first 2oz up to 21b and 2d for each additional lb up to 51b). Newspapers. Inland: Id for each Boz (Jd). Groat Britain and Northern Ireland, Irish Free State, Australia, South Sea Islands, and many other British possessions: Id for each 6oz (Id). Registered Magazines. Inland: Bach copy, 2d for first Boz and 2d for .each additional Bosc (Id for each 8oz). , Parcel-Post. Inland: Not exceeding lib, 6d> not ox- ■ cooding 21b, Is; each additional pound or fraction of a pound up. to 111b, 3d. Maximum weight, 111b (6d for tho first lb, 2d for each succeeding lb up to 101b, and Id each additional lb up to 281b maximum). For tho dispatch of parcels in hampers the fee payable is Is or 1b <sd according to tho size of the parcel..:' -■

Maximum dimensions for parcels for , delivery in New Zealand: 6ft length and girth combined. Customs Clearance Fee. Foe (Jd. y s , TELEGRAPHIC CHARGES. ' Telegraphic charges' are increased as ■fallow*: — " /, Week-days. Ordinary telegrams: 1b for 12 words i and. Id eaeh additional word (9d and Id). : Urgent telegrams &s for 12 words and 2d each additional' word (Is fid and fid). ' Letter telegrams: Is for 24 words and Id for each additional 2 words -or fraction (0d for first 27 words, Id each additional three words)..

- Sundays and Holidays, •' Double week-day charges for ordinary, and urgent telegrams. (Sapid.), '.t Press Telegrams. , A limit is being t imposed on the amount of" Press telegrams'other - than'cable or wireless mews that newspapers may receive at Press 1 rntes on 'week-days after 5 p.m.' Morning newspapers are limited to an aggregate of 6000 words of inland and Parliamentary news , at la 6d or Is 4d per 100 words or fraction. Any excess id a word. Evening newspapers are limited to an aggregate of 1000' words and .Parliamentary news at ,1s 84 , or 1b 4d a 100 words or fraction* Any excess id a word. The present scheduling and charging of Press messages received' -by evening newspapers 'between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. and sporting Press messages received on Saturdays after 4 p.m;- are* unaltered. Sunday and holiday Press rates are unaltered.

[At present morning papers pay Is 6d a 100 words after 5 p.m., total unlimited. Evening papers pay Is 0d a 100 yords up to 3000 words,- excluding gables, 'and then id a word., There is at present no limit for evening papers after 5 p.m.] ' Return to Fenny Postage. t After the war and tho depressions which followed,it, New Zealand had.the distinction of being the first country in the world to return to penny postage. During the war years, a special war tax was imposed of one halfpenny additional postage on all letters, books, 1 parcels, and packets except newspapers, Letl'crs were then ljd, postcards /Id, newspapers id. A war tax of 2d was imposed on all telegrams and cables, making the telegraphic charges $d for or Is 2d for 12 words urgent. During the depression of 1921-22, the charges were again increased, and in 1922 they were:—Letters 2d (late fee 2d), postcards ljd, newspapers Id, registration fee 3d, telegrams Is for 12 words and Id for eadh additional word. These charges were subsequently reduced to those now in force. , , , Comparison of Bptes. New Zealand's letter ratfe now exceeds that in England, which is only IJd. The following are comparisons with inland rates in other countfies:-

Letters, • Newspapers. England .. . for 2oz Id up to floz South Africa Jd per oz id per 4oz Australia '.. lid per oz Id per oz Canada .. 2 cents per 025 1 cenj/per ozUnited States of America 2 cents per oz 1 cent per 2oz New Zea- " ' " land -. 2d for first oz Id for Boz

In England, telegrams cost Is for 12 words and Id for each additional word. l