POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1629, 26 October 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS.

Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, if-fd. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; fid. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, I fid for each oz. or fraction thereof.

Postcards. —Inland : Single id ; reply, 2d. All other places: Single, I fid ; reply 3d.

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 lie 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 2f£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/ , ;/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 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 qd ; £4O, 2s. TELEGRAPPI. 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 every additional word, Id.