POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1602, 24 August 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, I Hd. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; Vid. for each additional 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, i lid : reply Id. 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, etc., must be so packed as to admit of qasy 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 pav 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/ , 1/5. 2/- and 2/6, poundage %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, %d. Urgent telegrams. —For 12 words or less, including address and signature. 3/2 for everv additional word, Id.