POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1914, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES, a and Letter Card®.—lmm» (including Cook Islands), Id for each 4oz. or fraction thereof, and i 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, Sorvia, 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.

Pott 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 2oz. Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz. oj traction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. or fraction thereof. One end must be (eft open Commercial Papers. —Town (for accounts, etc., only) jd for 2ozs., or id for first 4oz. and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland, Id for first 40a., and in for each succeeding 2oz. All other places IGoz. 2id, and id for every ad rational 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —Inland, id first 2oz. or fraction thereof ; aver 2oz. as for “all other places.” All other places, Id first 4oz, every adlitional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration. —2d additional for *ll places. Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id -ach, United Kingdom Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, Range River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If under ooz. sent by first available route; over sent by direct steamer only; unless specially addressed and paid at rate of Id for first 4oa. and id for each uicceeding 2oz. All other places Id ach under 4oz. and id ~-ach extra 2oz TELEPHONES. Charges—At exchanges continuousopen—Business establishments, £7 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 o; m ill day and all night. The other Fv

manges chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m

PARCEL POST.

Parcels posted in the Dominion for d livery in N&v Zealand, not excet iug—

Maney" Orders. (By Post;.-* i hie in New Zealand, for each £3 or taction of £5, 3d. Commouv.->ilch, Nji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, 6*l; £5, s ; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s Gd ; i.l-5, 3s;. £l7, 3s 6d, £2O, 4s; maxinnni £lO. United Kingdom,- British .-’ossessiorrs, Canada, United Stares, dawaii and Germany, 3d for each £1 <r fraction thereof. (By Tolegrap .) - Vithiu Now Zealand. 3d for every £0 »r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee ■I is. Australia, at rate of postal •ioaey orders, plus telegraph charge.

CABLE RATES. t. d. Australian state* 0 per word bji • 0 6 oi l oik Island 0 6 ” United States 2 4 to 2 3 ” Cape Colony 2 7 ” United Kingdom 8 0 " (Signature and address counted as jart of the message). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Post Office, Stratford, as under:— For— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 s.m.; also, Tuesdays, and Fridays, at 6 p.m. Cardiff-—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Eitham—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 8.23 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. tlawera—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 0.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m, iiawke's Bay—Daily, 8.10 a.m,, 9.80 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. fluiakama—Daily, 6 p.m. fluiroa—Daily, 6 p.m. Hurimoana—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at, 6 p.m.; also" Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m. Inglewood—Daily, B.lu a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 0 p.m. Kapouga—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Kiore—Monday, Wednesday, and Fri-

day, U p.m. Kohuratahi—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday, 6 p.m.; also Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m. Lowgarth—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.25 p.m. Mahon—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. 12.15 p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m.

Ngaire—Daily, b.lO a.m., 9.3 U a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Vonnanby—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Palmerston North—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.in., and 2.30 p.m. Pohokura—Daily, 6 p.m. Puni ivhaUan —Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m., and Wednesday a, 0 p.m. {■ iVJ ti—Daily, 3.25 p.m. ■ iuL Island—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. . thmore—-Daily, 6 p.m. iabora—Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday, 6 p.m., also Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m. i’a: ihi - Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. S'aawa —Tuesday mid SatimUiy. j a.m. ; and Wednesday, 6 p.m. To Wera—Daily, 0 p.m. Toko—Daily, 0 p.m.; also, Tuesday ami Saturday, 9 a.m. I'ntiitawa --Tuesday and Saturday, 9 m. : Wednesday, 6 p.m, Wri; ani pa- -Daily. 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. W.diara— Daily, 8.10 a.m., 12.25 p.m am! (1 p.m. ivangaeoi—Daily, 8.10 fv.ru., 9 30 : >i , 2.30 p.m., and 8 p.m. Wellington- Dally, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a m., am! 230 p.m. Whungemomona.—Tuesday, Wedncs. ■ Thursday and Saturday, at 0 p.m.; also Tuesday and Saturday at 9 a.m, * f \. STANTON,

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