POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1550, 13 May 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, l%d.forfirst4oz. or fraction thereof; for each ad* drtional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, I%d for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland : Single Id ; reply, 2d. All other places: Single, iJid; reply 3d. BOOKS AND PRINTED.* PAPERS. All places—id. per 2 oz. or frac tion thereof, Magazrnes (registered).— Inland : Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., id.; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, %d. Newspapers.—Town and inland, 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 to pay a sum not exceeding £?, POSTAL NOTES New Zealand. The notes are issued for nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows For notes of 1/, ;/$, 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, qd; £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 12 ; for every additional word, Id.