POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1671, 6 February 1917, Page 1

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; Vid; 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, 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. Ail 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 conditio’ns, to be liable to pay a sum not exceeding £2. POSTAL NOTES New Zealand. The - notes are issued lor nine aihounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows For notes of 1/, 1/6,2/- and 2/6, poundage %d' 3/- and- 5/-, poundage Id.; 10/-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. ~:rBritish 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. THie 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, 15.;.£25, Is Jd; £3O, is sd; £35, is qd; £40.25. TELEGRAPH. Tariff rates. telegrams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature, 8d ; for every additional word, Hd. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signatute. 1/2 fur every additional word, id