POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1637, 14 November 1916, Page 4

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, IFid. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland : Single Id ; reply, 2d. All other places: Single, I Fid: reply Sd. 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 covens. All classes of matter may be registered; but commercial papers, printed papeis, 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 additionai fee of 2}4d. 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 ths 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/-, 1 5/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders. —British postal ®rders for fixed sums from bd. 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 IS/-, 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. inland: Ordinary 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.