POSTAL NOTES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1584, 17 December 1885, Page 2

POSTAL NOTES.

We have received the following circular notice from the Secretary of the Post Office, Wellington :— After the Ist January, 1886, postal notes for fixed sums will be sold at the following rates at all money-order offices m New Zealand for payment at anj of those offices. For a postal note of one shilling the charge will be one halfpenny ; one shilling and sixpence, one halfpenny ; two shillings and sixpence, one penny ; five shillings, three halfpence ; seven shillings and sixpence, twopence ; ten shillings, threepence ; fifteen shillings, threepence ; seventeen shillings and sixpence, threepence ; twenty shillings, threepence. The denominations of postal notes have been so arranged that any number of shillings and sixpences, up to one pound, may be transmitted by means of not more than three notes ; but if any person should desire to transmit other amounts of pence, nnobliterated stamps, not exceeding five pence (sd) m value, may be affixed on the back of any one postal note, and the amount of the postal note, with the value of stamps affixed to it, will be paid. Ever3 r person to whom a postal note is issued shouldkeep a record of the number, amount, date, and name of ofhee of issue, to facilitate enquiry if the note should be lost. The postal notes will only be payable at money-order offices m New Zealand.