POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 10 April 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards.— lnland (hieluding Cook Islands), Id for eai'ii loz. or-fraction thereof, and id for each succeeding 2oz, Nnited Kingdom, British possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt. Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siara. Servia, and Postal Agencies in ,Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction thereof; all other places for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and l£d for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof. Post Cards. —lnland, single, £d ; reply, lei; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d. . Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered). places, i ; d per. 2oz. Magazines (registered), inland, id-i for every 86a.v>. or fraction thereof, foreign, jd per 2oz. or fraction thereof " One end must be left ope." '<. Commercial capers.—Town (foi accounts, etc.. only) Jd for 2ozs.. or id for first 4oz. and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland, id for first -loz.. and Jd for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2id..and id for every additional 20z. ; (Open for inspection). Pattern Sample Packets. —In land; id first !toz. or fraction thereof; over 2oz. as for "all other places." All other places*, Id first 40z., every additional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration.— 2d additional for all places. War Tax.- -id additional, is required on ill 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 H for first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under -loz. atid id each extra 2oz.

TELEPHONES. Cnarges. —At Exchanges continuously open—Business establishments, £7 ; private residences, to per' annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christehuvch, Dunedin. Invercargill. Xapier, Bastings, Palinerston North, and Wangaiuu are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed-

fa ' N.Z. Aus. U.K. S. (1. S. < i. s. d. lib 0 3 0 8 1 0 21b o -u 1 2 1 0 31b 0 G 1 S 1 o lib 0 7i 2 2 2 0 51b 0 <) 2 8 2 0 Glh 0 10J 3 2 2 0 71b 1 0 3 8 - 2 0 81b , 1 1} 4 2 3 0 9lb 1 3 4 8 3 0 ]01b 1 4} 4 8 3 0 111b 1 6 5 0 3 0 id addition;) 1 war tajc required cm eucli parceU