POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1418, 1 July 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; Vz d. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, Id. for each oz. or fraction thereof.

Postcards. —Inland: Single %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., %d.; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, l Ad. Newspapers. —Town and inland, Yzd. 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 J4d, 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-Genera) 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 1/ , :/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage V 2 d ; 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; £IS, 9d; £2O, Is.; £25, is 3d; £3O, is sd; £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, V 2 d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, Is.; for every additional word, Id.