POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 95, 28 March 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES, Letters and Letter Cards.— lnland (including Cook islands), Jd for eacn loz. or fraction thereof, and Jd for eacli succeeding 2oz, Nnitcd Kingdom, British possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt. Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pagp 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 Jcl for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and JJd for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof. Post Cards. —lnland, single, Jd; reply, Id; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d. Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered).—All places, Jd per 2oz. Magazines (registered). inland, id for every Boz. or fraction thereof. Foreign, jd per 2oz. or fraction thereof. .One end must bo left open. Commercial Papers.— Town (foi accounts, etc., only) Jd for 2ozs.. or Id for first 4oz, and Id each succeeding 2oz. Inland. Id for first -loz.. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2Jd and Jd for every additional 2nz. (Open for inspection). Pattern Sample Packets. —in laud, Jd first 2oz. or fraction thereof; over 2oz. as for “all other places.” AH other places, Id first 40z., every additional 2oz. or fraction Jd. Registration. —2d additional for all places. War Tax.- -Jd additional, is required on nil the above. Newspapers. —Town and Inland id each, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India. Jamaica. Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, id each paper. If under Boz. sent by first available route; over Boz. sent by direct steamer only ; unless specially addressed and paid at rate of 1 d for first 4oz. and Jd for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under loz. a>nd Jd each extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. Cnarges. —At Exchanges continuously open—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 open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 u.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted In the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed-

id additional war tax required ou each parcel. . „ Money Orders, (by ros*./— lavable in Slew Zealand, tor each £o infraction of £5. 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, £2 fad; to. is - £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s 6d : £ls 3s; £1”, 3s 6d, £2O; 4s; maximum £4O.- United Kingdom. British Possessions, Canada. United States, Hawaii and Germany 3d tor each U or fraction thereof. (By 1 elegiap ) Within New Zealand, 3d for every £--> or fraction of £5. and a telegraph tee 0 f is Australia, at rate of postal money orders. Plus telegraph charge. CABLE RATES.

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