POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 January 1914, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards.—lnland {including Cook Islands), Id for each loz. or fraction thereof, and J 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 .hereof; all other places 2Jd for the Irst oz. or fraction thereof, and lid tor each succeeding oz. or fraction hereof.

Post .Cards. —Inland, single, id; re>ly, Id; all other places, single, Id; eply 2d. Printed Papers (including Books ud Magazines, not registered).—All ilaces, Jd per 2oz. Magazines (regisTcd), inland, id for every Boz. or faction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. r fraction thereof. One end must be ■ft open. Commercial Papers. —Town (for ac.nmts, etc., only) id for 2ozs., or Id a - first 4oz. and id each succeeding iz. Inland, Id for first 40z., and Ad >r each succeeding 2oz. All other laces lOoz. 2id, and id for every adilional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —Inmd, id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; ver 2oz. as for "all other places.” All ■ther places, Id first 4oz, every aditional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration. —2d additional for all laces.

Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id ich, United Kingdom, Australia, Canda, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, range River, South Sea Islands, and ransvaal. Id each paper. If under ya. sent by first available route; over jz. sent by direct steamer only ; un•ss specially addressed and paid at ltd of Id for first 4oz. and id for each ■receding 2oz. All other places Id ich under 4oz. and id each extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. Charges —At exchanges continuousopen—Business establishments, £7 ; rivate residences, £5 per annum, xchangcs not continuously open, an jiial charge of £/5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, 7ellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, ivercargili, Napier, Hastings, Balmston North, and Wanganui are open II day and all night. The other Exhanges chiefly from 9 a.ra. to 6 p.m. PARCEL POST. ireels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceeding—

Monay Orders, (By- Post). —Payile in i\W Zealand, for each £5 or action of - £5, 3d. Commonwealth, ji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, 6d; £5,

; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s 6d ; 1.5, 3s ; £l7, 3s 6d, £2O, 4s; maxiam £4O. United Kingdom, British issossions, Canada, United States, (awaii and Germany, 3d for each £1 ■ fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)— /ithin New Zealand, 3d for ©very £5 r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee f Is. Australia, at rate of postal .oney orders, plus telegraph charge.

CABLE RATES.

(Signature and address counted as srt of the message).

MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Post Office, Stratard, as under: — For—uckland—Daily, 8.10 a.in.; also, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. ardiff—Daily, 3.25 p.m. •ouglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Ilham—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.23 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.n*. fawera—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. 'awke’s Bay—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. luiakama—Daily, 6 p.m, 'uiroa—Daily, 6 p.m. lurimoana—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 6 p.m. aglewood—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. 'nponga—Daily, 3,25 p.m. iore—Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.m. iohuratahi—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at 6 p.m. ■owgarth—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.25 p.m. ■ ahoe—Daily, 3.25 p.m. lain Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. lakahu—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6 p.m . ’idhirst —Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 p.m.,

and 6 p.m. ew Plymouth—Daily, 8.10 a.rn., 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. ■ gaire—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.in., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. -’ormanby—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 0.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. ‘almerston North—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. 'ohokura—Daily, 6 p.m. hmiwhakau—Tuesdays and Saturdays

9 a.m., and Wednesdays, 6 p.m. lowan—Daily, 3.25 p.m. 'outh Island'—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Urathmore—Daily, 6 p.m. i’ahora—Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, 6 p.m. tariki—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. I’aurakawa-—Tuesday and Saturday,

9 a.m.; and Wednesday, 6 p.m. D) Wera—Daily, 6 p.m. I'oko—Daily, 6 p.m.; also, Tuesday

and Saturday, 9 a.m. i'ntutawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 9 a.m. ; Wednesday, 6 p.m. Wairarapa—-Daily, 8.10 l a.m., 9.30 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., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.rn. Wellington—Daily, 8.10 a.rn., 9.30 a.m., arid 2.30 p.m. Whangamomona—Tuesday and Saturday and Thursday 6 p.m. day and Thursday G p.rn. 8. Q. STANTON, Postmaster.

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