POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1552, 18 May 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, l%d. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; Vzd. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, lVz<i for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland : Single id ; reply, 2d, All other places: Single,. I^jd; 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, Kd. 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 lor nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows For notes of 1/, :/6, 2/- and 2 16, poundage Vzd ; 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10/-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d. to £1 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 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, %d. Urgent telegrams.*—For 12 words or less, including address and signature. 1/2; for every additional word id. ‘ 1