POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1442, 4 September 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.— Vzd. per 2 oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland: Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., Vzd. ; every additional 8 oz, or fraction thereof, l /zd. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Yz d. 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 papeis, 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 r /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 arc issued lor nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows :—For notes of 1/ , I/O, 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 £l are issued for payment in the United Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is: Up to 2/0, 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 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, %d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, is.; for every additional word, Id.