POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1370, 6 March 1915, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, tiic Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, id. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; L>d. for each additional 2 02. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, id. for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland: Single f?.d ; reply, id. All other places: Single, Id : reply 2d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places.— per 2 oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland ; Each copy not exceeding 8 oz , ; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, Y 2 d. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Dd, each. , REGISTRATION. Registration insures proof of the delivery of mail-matter by placing it under the hand-to-hand check of every officer dealing with it. Registered matter should be placed in strong covers. All classes of matter may be registered ; but commercial papers, printed papers, ete., must be so packed as to admit of easy examination. Every person who registers a letter is entitled to a receipt for it from the office at winch it is registered. If a further receipt is desired from the addressee, this will be obtained upon payment by the sender of an additional fee of 2%d. at the time of registration 01 subsequently.

In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered letter from any county with which New Zealand has a reciprocal arrangement as to indemnities the Postmaster-General consents, under certain conditions, to he liable to pay a sum not exceeding £2. POSTAL NOTES. New Zealand. — The notes are issued tor nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows : —For notes of I/-, l/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage J Ad ; 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10/-, IS/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d. to £r are issued for payment in the United Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is : Up to 2/6, id : to 15/-, 2d ; to £l, 3d. Money Orders (for places within New Zealand). —For sums not over £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 9d; £2O, is.; £25. is 3d ; £3O, is 5d ; £35, is gd ; £4O, 2s. telegraph. Tariff rates. telegrams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature, 6d; for every additional word, %d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, Is. ; for everv additional word, Id.