POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1447, 16 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; %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 T Ad ; 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., l A<\. ; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, Aid. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Vid. 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, etc., 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 Ad. at the lime of registration 01 subsequently. In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter ora registered letter from any country 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 1/, 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 £l 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 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, Vid. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, Is.; for every additional word, Id.