POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 100, 30 December 1913, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards.— lnland (including Cook Wands). Id for each 4oz. or fraction thereof, and i tor each succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United States. Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, 1 ago 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 2*d lor the first oz. or fraction thereof, and ljd for each succeeding oz. or fraction hereof. Post Cards.— lnland, single, id ; re,)ly, Id; all other places, single, Id; eply 2d. , Printed Papers (including Books aid Magazines, not registered).-r-All >laces, Id per 2oz. Magazines (regisprcd), inland, id for every or raction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. r fraction thereof. One end must be ■ft open. Commercial Papers.— Town (for acounts, etc., only) id for 2ozs., or Id or first 4oz. and id each succeeding oz. Inland, Id for first 40z., and id it each succeeding 2oz. All other ■laces lOoz. 2id, and id for every adilional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets.—lnind, id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; ver 2oz. as for "all other places." All Iher places, Id first 4oz, every aditioual 2oz. or fraction id. . Registration.— 2d additional for all >laces. Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id Veil, United Kingdom, Australia, Canla, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, '•range River, South Sea Islands, and ransvaal. Id each paper. If under >/.. sent by first available route; over o/.. sent by direct steamer only; unss specially addressed and paid at ite of Id for first 4oz. and id for each tcceeding 2oz. All other places Id ach under 4oz. and id each extra 2oz.

TELEPHONES. Charges—At exchanges continuous - - y open—Business establishments, £7 ; divato residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an iual charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, cllington, Christchurch, Dunedin, ivercargill, Napier, Hastings, I'alriiston North, and Wanganui are open I day and all night. Tlie otlW Exlangcs chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. ircels-posted in the Dominion'For delivery in New Zealand, not- exceeding— '.; ! i

Aloncy Orders. (By Post).—Paylo in, New. Zealand, for each £5 or iction of £o, 3d. Commonwealth, i, Samoa, and Tonga,> £2, 6d; £5, ; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s 6d ; .e-,5, 3s <; '£l7, 3s 6d, £2O, 4s; maxi- • iii £-10. United Kingdom, British ,)ss,e,ss,i i ons! l j Canacte, ;i United State's, .'••i\v ( ai'i and Germany, 3d for each £1 1 fraction thereof.. (B,y:Telegj;aph).^-l ''itliiiV'iN'ew' Zealand,, 3dfor ej.ery £5 fraction of £o', and a telegraph fee. I, Is;. Australia, at 'rate of.' postal oney orders, plus telegraph, charge.' an • ...■!■ CABLE RATES. _'■'■ .„;. }-,«!■

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(Signature and address counted as it of the message). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Tost Office, Stratrd, as For—.tckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.; also, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. ardiff—Daily', 3.25 p.m. uiglas—Daily, 6 p.m. itham—Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 0.23 a.m., 2.30 p.m. aud 6 p.m. invent—Daily, 8.10 a.m.j 9.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. .nvke's Bay—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 ?.'■■;. a.in., and 2.30 p.m. uiakama—Daily, G p.m. uroa—Daily, G p.m. lurimoana—Tuesday, Wednesday, and .Saturday, 6 p.m. nglewood—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. ■ iponga—Daily, 3.25 p.m. iore—Monday, Wednesday, and Frii day, G p.m. ohuratahi—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at 6 p.m. i.ivgarth—Tdcsday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.25 p.m. ajioe—Daily, 3.25 p.m. ain Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. .ikahu—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6 p.ru . idhirst—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. •w Plymouth—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 0 p.m. ormanby—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. ilmerston North—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. iliokura—Daily, 6 p.m. mi'.vliakau—Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m., and Wednesdays, 6 p.m. owan—Daily, 3.25 p.m. >utli Island—Daily, «.10 a.m., 9.30 ' a.m., aud 2.3 U p.m. rathmore—Daily, 6 p.m. iliora—Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, 6 p.m. iriki—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. aurakawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 9 a.m. ; and Wednesday, 6 p.m. e Wera—Daily, G p.m. ■iko—Daily, 6 p.m.; also, Tuesday .and Saturday, 9 a.m. ututawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 9 a.m. ; Wednesday, 6 p.m. \'airarapa—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m.. and 2.30 p.m. Vaitara—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 12.25 p.m., and 6 p.m. Vanganui— Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and G p.m. Vellington—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. rVliangamomona— Tuesday and Saturday and Thursday 6 p.m. lay ami Thursday 0 p.m. 8, G. STANTON, Postmaster.

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