POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 70, 31 March 1913, Page 7

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Latter Card*. —Inland, including Cook Islands, id for each loz or fraction thereof, and id for each succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam, Servia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2Jd for the ttrst oz. or fraction tnereoi, and IJd for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Post Cards. —lnland, single, id; reply, Id; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d. Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered).—All places, id per 2o« • Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz or fraction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz or fraction thereof. One end must bo left open. Commercial Papers.— Town (for accounts, etc., only), id for 2ozs, or Id for first 4oz and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland, Id for first 4oz, and |d for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz 2fcd, and |d for every additional 2oz (Open for inspection). Newspapers.— Town and Inland, id each. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If unde. Soz sent first available route; ovm Soz sent by direct steamer only, unless specially addressed and paid at fate of Id for first 4oz and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz and id eacl extra 2oz Pattern and Sample Packet*.— ln land, id first 2oz or fraction thereof; over 2oz as for “all other places.” All Hher places, Id first 4oz, every auditional 2oz or fraction JO. Registration. —2d additional for all places. i ‘ TELEPHONES. Charges.— it exchanges continuously open—Business establishments, £7; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an feudal charge of £6. Telephone Exchange* at Auckland, Wellington. Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palm prston North, and Wanganui are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chi ell v from 9 to 5 fl.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for de livery in New Zealand, not exceed-

'Money Orders. (By Post).—Pay able in New Zealand, foi each £5 oi (fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth, ■i/'tii,' Samoa, and Tonga, £2. 6d; £5 Vj £7, Is Qd,; £lO. 2s; £l2, 2s 6d, , 3s; £l7, 3a 6d ; £2O,- 4s; maxi |iiium, £4O. United Kingdom, British ndaeessidns, Canada, United States, (IfWaij, and Germany, 3d for, each £J • if 5 fraction thereof. 7 (By Now Zealand, 3d for every ££. or flection of £5, and‘a telegraph fee jf Is. Australia, at rate of postal 1 money orders, plus telegraph charge.' TELEGRAPHIC RATES. For 12 words or less, including address ( and signature— Ordinary Telegrams, 6d, and |d for ■ach Additional word. Urgent Telegrams, la, and Id foi ;ach additional word. Telegrams ,tc tie repeated 1 will be ' charged half- ' -ates *a addition to the above. Vustralian States 0 4}d per word Fiji -I ... ... 0 8 „ Norfolk; Island h‘... i 0 3 „ United States 2 4to 2 8 „ Cape Colony* 2 7 „ United Kingdom 3 0 - (Signature and address counted as part ( of message.) STAMP DUTIES. Receipt or Discharge (for £2 or rver), Id. Agreement (other than Lease), where the matter thereof is if the value of £2O or upwards, Is. Lease or Agreement for Lease, where the rent does not exceed £6O, 2s 6d; (or every additional £6O, or part oi 060. 2s. 6d MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at tne Tost Office, Stratford, as under:— For— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.'j also Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. Cardiff—Daily. 3.26 p.m, Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Ultham—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 8.80 a.m. 2.30 p.m,, and. 6 p.m. Sawera—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.80 a.m. 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. fJawko’s Bay—Daily, 8.10 ».m., 8.3 C a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Huiakama—Daily, 6 p.m. Huiroa—Daily, 6 p.m. Hurimoaua—Tuesday, Wednesday am. Saturday, at 6 p.m. (nglewood—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.« K p.m., and 6 p.m. Kaponga—Daily, 3.26 p.m. Kiore—Monday, Wednesday, and Pri day, 6 p.m. Kohuratahi—Tuesday, Wednesday ano Saturday, at 6 p.m. Lowgarth—Tuesday, Thursday, anc Saturday, 3.25 p.m. Wahoe—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Main Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m,, 9.34 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. \lakahu-—Thursday and Saturday, 6

p.m. Midhirst—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.80 p.m. and 6 p.m. Vew Plymouth—Dally, 8.10 a.m., I p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Vgaue—Daily, BJ.O a.m., 0.30 a.m. 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. S'ormanby—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 0.8( a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Palmerston N jrth—Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Pohokura—Daily, 6 p.m. I'uniwhakau-—Tuesdays nd featu* days, 10 a.m.; and Y/ecines days, 6 p.m. Rowan—Daily, 3.25 p.m. South Island—Daily, 8.10 ft.m., 9.3 C a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Strathmore—Daily, 6 p.m. fahora—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, G p.m.' Tariki—-Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 .p.m .

and 6 p.m. Faurakawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m.; and Wednesday, G p.m. To Wera—-Daily, G p.m. I'oko—Daily, G p.m.; also, Tuesday and Saturday, IU a.m. Fututawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m.; V/edneaday 6 p.m. Wairarapa—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 0.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Waitara—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 12.25 p.m., and 6 p.m. Wanganui—Daily, 8.10 a.m., it. Bo a.m 2.30 p.m and T p.m. Wellington—Daily, 8.10 a.m., G. 30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Whangamomona—Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, al 6 p.m. fl. Q. STANTON. iVatmaswr.

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