POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1401, 22 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; Vzd. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, id. for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland: Single Vzd ; reply, id. All other places : Single, id; reply 2d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places.— V 2 d. per 2 oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland : Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., Vzd. ; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, Vzd. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Vzd. 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 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 x /zd. at the time of registration 01 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 Vzd ; 3/- and 5/-, poundage Id.; 10/-, 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 £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 9d; £2O, is.; £25, is 3d; £3O, is sd; £35, is 90; £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, l / 2 d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, is.; for every additional word, Id.