RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 2692, 8 May 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 tfnndMi are in future to be as follow • nf ° U and after the fifteenth day of November next, the rate of postage to be pai donall letters, newspapers transmitted from New Ze'aland to any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez and Bnndisi shall be and the »n£is 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 m New Zealand by postSstamps, to be affixed upon the covers of so e sent terS ' b ° ok PaCkGtS ' w ™™i™ 2 That on all correspondence received 1L t 7 ? m , mail s despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the date aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid m postage-stamps at the forecroin<* S of the difference between the rates 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 pasonse to whom the same are addressed.