POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1393, 4 May 1915, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS.

Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, id. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; l /zd. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, id. for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland: Single T /i<i ; reply, id. All other places ; Single, id; reply 2d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places.— 'Ad. per 2 oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland : Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., y 2 d. ; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, %d. Newspapers. —Town and inland, V 2 d. each.

REGISTRATION. Registration insures proof of the delivery of mail-matter by placing if under the hand-to-hand check of every officer dealing with it. Registered matter should he 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 which 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 ot subsequently.

In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered letter from any country with which New Zealand has a reciprocal arrangement as to indemnities the Postmaster-General consents, under certain conditions, to be 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/-, 1/6. 2/- and 2/6, poundage Vi d ; 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; IOV, 15/-. and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders.—British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d. to £1 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 £3 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 9d; £2O, is.; £25, is 3d; £3O, is 5d ; £35, Is 9d ; £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, Ad.

Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, is.; for every additional word, Id.