RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 2698, 15 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 ■Brindisi are in future to be as follow « That iL ° n 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 be ™d 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 iraction of two ounces ; On all newspapers, twopence each. The said postage shall, in all such cases, be prepaid in New Zealand by postagestamps, to be affixed upon the covers of ’ b °° k PaCkctS ’ or news P a P er s

• 2 - That on all correspondence received m New Ze:iland 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 of the difference between the rates afore-' said and the postage actually affixed to the correspondence shall be made. 1 he said postage shall be payable on all such letters, book-packets, and newspapers ondefiverymthe colony to the pisonse to whom the same are addressed.