RATES OF POSTAGE VIA SUEZ AND BRINDISI.

Kumara Times, Issue 2702, 20 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 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-pacW and newspapers transmitted from New Zealand to any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland by way of Suez 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. Hie said postage shall, in all such cases, be prepaid in New Zealand by postagestamps to be affixed upon the covers of so sent ' C PaCketS) 0P news P a P e^ in T a P corres P°ndence received in New Zealand m mails despatched from the United Kingdom on and after the date aforesaid, and which has not been prepaid in postage-stamps at the forepoinc* rates, a surcharge equal to the equivalent of :.ie difference between the rates aforesa :1 and the postage actually affixed to »J" correspondence shall be made ■ he said postage shall be payable on all s, ;.i letters, bo<,k-packets, and newspapers -n delivery in the ,olony to the pasonse to whom the same are addressed.