POSTAL INFORMATION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 41, 18 October 1913, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION

POSTAL RATES. Latter* end Letter Card*.— lnland, including (look Islands, Id for each 4oz or fraction thereof, and id for each succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, ATgo Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portufuese Colonies, Siam, Bervia, and ostal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2id to? the first ok,, or fraction tnereof, and l|d for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Post Cards.— lnland, tingle, id; repit, Id; ail other places, single, Id; veplv 2d.

Printed Paper* (including Books and Magazines, not registered).—All places, id per 2oz • Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz or fraction thereof. Foreign,-id per 2oz left open. Commerolni Paper*—-Town (for accounts, etc., only), id for 2ozs, or Id for first 4oz and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland, Id for first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 2oa. All other places lOoz 2id, and id fox every additional 2oz (Open for inspection). Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id rach. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If undei Boz sent hy first available route; over Boz sent by direct steamer only, unless specially addressed and paid at rate of Id for first 4oz and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz and id each extra 2oz. Pattern and Sample Packets.—lnland, id first 2oz or fraction thereof; nver 2oz as for “all other places.” All places, Id first 4oz, every additional 2oz or fraction id. . > ■ Registration.— 3d additional tor all places. TELEPHONES. ' Charges— It exchanges continuously open—Business establishments, £7; private residences, £6 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £6. 1 Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 to 5 jj.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New 1 Zealand, not exceeding— sv '' or fraction thereof. One end must b© N.Z. Ana. U.K.

Money (By Post).— Pay- ; :;able u i’n NeW Zealand, for e&ch £5 or faction of?£s, 3d. Commonwealth, and Tonga, £3, 6d; £6, Ts* £7-,‘ Ts- 3d £lO. Ss: fill, ! 2s 6d j £l6, 3a; £l7, 3s odr£2o maxi- • miim|‘£*o/ 'unitfed Kingdom, British 1 Possessions,' Canada, oi IW% -States, ! Hawaii; and Germany, J 3d <oir each £1 <dr* fraction thereof. (By T&egrUphf.— ' Within‘NeW‘Zealand, 1 3d for-ovary £5 t r or l fraction b! £ s y aril a 1 telegraph fee } ‘of Ts.' ■ Aiistrahay At:‘fate postal : nfbtiby'drdbra, 'plus telegraph charge. TELEGRAPHIC RATES. For 12 words or less, including address and signature— Ordinary Telegrams; od, and id for each additional word. -Urgent Telegrams, la, and Id lor each additional word. Telegrams to be repeated will be charged halfrr atas ,• W:.addition, to ‘the; above. I- moil Mi-'v'tifti to»''d9TAiNTpJL io noilanrmaß-'it lo ; ,i:v;U to llffd-v ;;>flT -gU-C.? i 1

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