POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1551, 16 May 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, i%d. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; Vzd. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, lYzd for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland : Single Id ; reply, 2d. All other places: Single, lYzd. ; 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, Yz d. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Vzd. 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 pav a sum not exceeding £2. POSTAL NOTES, New Zealand. The notes are issued for nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows For notes of 1/, 1/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage Yd; 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10/-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders.—British postal orders for fixed sums from od. to £1 arc issued for payment in the I .'..ted Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage -0 : Up to 2/0, Id ; to 15/-, 2d ; Money Oivkrs (for places within New Toalarfo). —For sums not over sN ;he charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; sv;. £2O, is.; £25, Is 3d; £•0, ‘.s vfi ; £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, Yd. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature. 1/2 ; for every additional word,