POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 21, 24 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 thereof; all other places 2Jd for the first oz, or fraction thereof, and lid for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof. Post Cards.- Inland, single, pi j reply, id; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d, Fruited Papers (including Books md Magazines, not registered).—All places, id per 2oz. Magazines (regislercd), inland, id for every Boz. or ■'ruction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. ir fraction thereof. One oral must be left open. Commercial Papers. -Town (for ac•ounts, ole., only) id for 2<>zs., or id hr lirst 4oz. ami id each succeeding hz. Inland, Id for first 40z., and id hr each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2)d, and id for every adlitiunal 2oz. (Optra for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets.—ln and, id first 2uz. or fraction thereof; ivor 2oz. as for “all other places.” All 1 1 her places, Id first 4oz, every adlitional 2oz. or fraction Jd.

Registration.— 2d additional for all daces.

Newspapers.— Town ami Inland, Jd ach, United Kingdom, Australia, Canida, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, 'range River, South Sea Islands, ami Transvaal. Id each paper. If under Buz. sent by first available route; over Buz. sent by direct steamer only; un-

"ss specially addressed and paid at ate of Id for first loz. and jd for each neoeeding 20/.. All other places Id ■ach under 4oz. and id each extra 2oz.

TELEPHONES.

Charges —At exchanges continuous-

open—Business establishments, £< ; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open dl day and all night. The other Ex changes chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceeding—

Money Orders. (By Post). —Pay able in Now Zealand, for each £5 a

fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth Eiji, < vmof, and Tonga, £2, 6d; £5, £7, 1 Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s 6d ; vls, As; £l7, 3s 6d, £2O. 4s; maxiniim £4O. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada, United States. Hawaii and Germany, 3d for each £1 ir fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)— Within New Zealand, 3d for every £5 >r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee if Is. Australia, at rate of postal money orders, plus telegraph charge.

CABLE RATES.

(Signature and address counted as oart of the message). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Post Office, Strut-, •ord, as under:— For—* Uieklaud—Daily, 8.10 a.rn.; also, /Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. Tudiff—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. ICllham—Daily, 8.10 a.m,, 9.23 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. laweru— Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Hawke’s Day—Daily, 8.10 *.10., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. iluiakuma—Daily, 6 p.m. Huiroa-—Daily, 6 p.m. iiurimoaiia—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 6 p.m. Inglewood—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Ivapunga—Daily, 3.25 p.m. viore—Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-

day, 0 p.m. ivohuratahi—Tuesday. Wednesday, and Saturday, at 6 p.m. :.anvgarth—'Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.25 p.m. ilahoe—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Main Trunk—Daily, 8.10. a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. *'" Makahu—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6 p.m . Midhirst—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. New Plymouth—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Ngaire—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Vormauby—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. i’almerstou North—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.un., and 2.30 p.m. Pohokura—Daily, 6 p.m. t’uniwiialiau—Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m., and Wednesdays, 0 p.m. Rowan—Daily, 3.25 p.m. South Island—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Strathmore—Daily, 0 p.m. i’ahora— I Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, G p.m. I’ariki—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and G p.m. I'anrakawa—Tuesday and Saturday,

9 a.in. ; am] Wednesday, 6 p.m. I'e Wera—Daily, 6 p.m. I'oko—Daily, (5 p.m.; also, Tuesday and Saturday, 9 a.m. lututawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 9

a.m. ; Wednesday, G p.m. Wairarapa- -Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.90 a.m., and 2.90 p.m. Waitara —Daily, 8.10 a.m., 12.25 p.m., and C p.m. Wanganui—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.90 a.m., 2.90 p.m., and 6 p.m. Wellington—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.90 a.m., and 2.90 p.m. Whangamomnna—Tuesday and Saturday and Thursday 6 p.m. day and Thursday G p.m. B. Q. STANTON,

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