POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1611, 16 September 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS .AND LETTER CARDS.

Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, rj£d. forfirst 4 oz. or fraction thereof; l Ad. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, l%d for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards.—lnland : Single id ; reply, 2d. All other places; Single, I^d; 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, 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 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 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 %d; 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10/-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d.

British Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from fid. to f I 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, fid; £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, J^d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature. 1/2 for everv additional word, Id.