RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 2612, 20 January 1885, Page 4

RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

By an order in Council dated 28th October, 1884, the rates of postage on correspondence transmitted via Suez and Brindisi are in future to be as follow : 1. That, on and after the fifteenth day of November next, the rate of postage to be paid on all letters, book-packets, °and newspapers transmitted from New Zealand to any place in the United Kingdom of treat Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Brindisi shall be and the same is hereby fixed as herein set forth, that is to sayOn all letters, one shilling per halfounce or fraction of half an ounce : On all book-packets and parcels, threepence for every two ounces or traction of two ounces ; On all newspapers, twopence each The said postage B l iaU i„ 0 11 such cases, be prepaid m New Zealand by postal stamps to be affixed upon the coVers°of scl sent P GtS ' ° r news P a Pers ■ % Th r} °, u all correspondence received in Isew Zealand in mails despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the date .aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid in postage-stamps at the foregoing rates, a surcharge equal to the equivalent ot the diflcrence between the rates aforesaid and the postage actually affixed to the correspondence shall be made. The said postage shall bo payable on all such letters, book-packets, and newspapers on delivery in the colony to the pjsonse to whom the same are addressed.