RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 2637, 18 February 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 m V 1! F nited Ki “gdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Brindisi shad be and S hereby fixed as herein set forth, that is to say—

On 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 shall, in all such cases, be prepaid in New Zealand by postage’ stamps, to be affixed upon the covers of sclent' SrS> b °° k packets ’ or newspapers

in l3 7 i received tL TW ln , mails despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the date aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid in postage-stamps at the foregoing nf t e b’ P %ff rCharge u equal t 0 tlle equivalent dlff erenee between the rates aforesaid and the postage actually affixed to the correspondence shall be made. ...iff , s f ld Postage shall be payable on all uch letters, book-packets, and newspapers on delivery in the colony to the pasonse to whom the same are addressed.