RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 2641, 23 February 1885, Page 4

RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

By an order in Council dated 28th Oc tober, 1884, the rates of postage on correspondence transmitted via Suez and Brmdisi 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 Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Bnndisi shall be and the »me 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, bo prepaid in New Zealand by posta-e----stamps to be affixed upon the coVers° o f so sent ' P£lCketS ' cr news Papers in AW? T correspondence received Ltt ? e ft? "\ mails de spatclicd from the United Kingdom on and after the date aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid in postage-stamps at the foregone o? £ SS! arg l eq " al t 0 the «■? d fT UCe between the r ates aforesaid and the postage actually affixed to the correspondence shall be made. lhe said postage shall be payable on all such letters, book-packets, and newspapers on delivery m the colony to the pjsonse to whom the same are addressed.