POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1543, 27 April 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

i LETTERS AND LETTER i CARDS. ' Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, I V 2 d. for first 4 oz. . or fraction thereof; Vid. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British 1 possessions, i%d for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland : Single Id ; i 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, %d. Newspapers.—Town and inland, l / 2 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 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 or 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 Ijo, 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 feted 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 oves £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 9d; £2O, is.; £25, is 3d; £3O, is sd; £35, is Qd; £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, J£d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, 1/2; for every additional word Id.