POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1526, 23 March 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, I Yd. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; V 2 d. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, I/id for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland : Single id ; reply, 2d. All other places: Single, l^d; reply 3d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places.—id, per 2 oz. or frac tion thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland: Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., id.; every additional 8 oz.’ or fraction thereof, l / 2 d. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Yzd. ieach.

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%d. 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 1/, ;/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage l / 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, 8d; for every additional word, y 2 d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, 1/2; for every additional word, Id.