POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1699, 17 April 1917, Page 1

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, I kid. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; kid. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, T kid for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards.-—lnland ; Single id ; reply, 2d. All other places : Single, i l / 2 f\ ; reply 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, ele., 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 or 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 I/, :/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage V 2 d 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10/-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders.—British postal orders for fixed suras 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. TELEGRAPH. Tariff rates. telegrams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature, 8d; for every additional word, V 2 d, Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, 1/2 for every additional word, Id.