POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 54, 9 February 1916, Page 8

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards Inland (including Cook islands), Id for each loz. or fraction thereof, and )d for each succeeding 2oz, Nnited Kingdom, British possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Dago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam. Servia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each ox. or fraction thereof; all other places 2)cl for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and Ifd for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Post 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 20/.. Magazines (registered), inland, Id lor every Boz. or fraction thereof. Foreign, Ad per 2oz. or fraction thereof. One end must he left opni.v

Commercial Papers.—Town (for accounts, etc., only) Ad for 2ozs.. or Id for first loz. and Ad cadi succeeding 2nz. Inland. Id for first loz.. and -Jd for eacli succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2.)d, and Id for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —In land, Id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; over 2oz. as for “all other places.” All other places, Id first loz., every additional 2oz. or fraction Id. Registration. —2d additional for all places. War Tax.— Id additional, is required on all the above. Newspapers. —Town and Inland Id each. United Kingdom, Ansi’alia, Canada, Coy lon, India. Jamaica. Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal,- Id each paper. If under So/., sent by first available route; over So/,, sent liv direct steamer only ; unless specially addressed and paid at rate of ’-I for first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 20/.. All other places Id each under 40/.. and Ad each extra 20/,. TELEPHONES. Cnargos.—At Exchanges continuoiisly o))cn —Business ostahlishments, C 7 ; private residences, L's per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of ho. Telephone F.xehanges at A icklaud, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly Irom 1) a.m. to d p.m. PARCEL POST, Parcels posted In the Dominion lor delivery in New Zealand, not exceod-

\d additional war tax required on each pared. Money Orders. (By Bust.) I'nynl>lo in Now Zealand. loi oaoli (Jo or traction of to. ltd. ( orniuon wealth, h'iji, Samoa and Tonga, £2, (id; Co, Is'; C 7, is (id; £lO. ‘2s; £l2, ‘2s (id; £ls 3s; £l7, Os (id, £2O; -Is; »)•••*•- nin lll {J |(). Bnitod Kingdom, Brit ish Possessions, Canada, United States, ■ Hawaii and Clerinany. dd tor ran (i Cl , or traction thereof. (By Telegraph) Within Now /calami, 3d tor every Co or fraction of t'.'i. and a telegraph lee of Is. Australia. at rate of postal mcmey orders, plus telegraph charge. :

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