POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 27, 6 May 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards Inland | (including Cook Islands), Id for cam i ■!oz. or traction thereof, and id for I eacli succeeding 2oz, Nutted Kingdom, j British possessions. United Suites' Chili. Costa Rica, Egypt. Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pent, 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 2tdl for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and l)d for each succeeding oz. or fraction i thereof. Post Cards. —Inland, single, Ad; 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, |d for every Boz. or fraction thereof. Foreign. |d per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must be left ope", Commercial papers.— Town (fm accounts, etc., only) id for 2ozs.. or Id for first 407., and |d each succeeding 2oz. Inland. Id for, first 4o’z., and |d for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2|d and |d for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —ln land, |d first 2oz. or fraction thereof ; over 2oz. as for “all other places.” All other places, Id first 40z., every additional 2oz. or fraction |d. Registration, —2d additional for all places. War Tax.- -id additional, is required on all the above. Newspapers, —Town and Inland J-d 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 addiessed and paid at rate of id for first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz. and id a ach extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. Criarges.—At Exchanges continuous ly open—Business establishments, £7 ; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, au 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 a.in. to 5 p.m.

Money Orders. (By Pest.)— Bayable in New Zealand, for each io or fraction of £5 3d Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2 6d Lo, Is £7, Is Gd; £lO. 2s; £l2, 2s 0d ; £ls 3s; £l7, 3s 6d, £2O ; 4s; maximum £lO. United Kingdom. Bvitu,h Possessions, Canada. United States Hawaii and Germany. 3d lot- sadi or fraction there-f. 'By Telegraph)Within New Zealand, 3d for eveiy *,o or fraction of £5. and a telegraph fee of is Australia, at rate of postal monev orders. Plus telegraph charge.

CABLE RATES. s ‘ d ‘ .1 Australian States 0 per .word Fiji , nr” Norfolk Island J j United Stac-'s 2a id to 2 <- }) Cape Colony f „ V SMSiS*«r J vequuod on *• ««»w « « Mails close at the Tost Ofiice. Stratford, as under ; Auckland —Daily, 8.10 a.m.; also Tuesdays and Fridays, at bP I • Cardiff—Daily, 8 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Eltham— Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 9.28 a.m., 2.00 p.m. and 0 P-m. Hawera —Daily. 8.10 a.m., 9.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Hawke’s Bay—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m.. and 2.30 p.m. Huiakama —Daily, 6 p.m. Huiroa—Daily. 0 p.m Hufimoana— Tuesday. Wednesday ami Saturday, 6 p.m.; also Mondays Inglewood—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2,30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Kaponga—Daily, 8 p.m . Kioro— Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.m. Kohuratahi— Tuesday. Wednesday and Saturday, at 6 p.m.; also Mondays and Saturdays at 8.30 a.m. and Saturdays at 8.30 a.m. Lowgarth—Daily. 8 p.m. Mahoe— Daily, 8 p.m. Main Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Makalm— Tuesday. Thursday and baturd iv. 6 pm. Midhi T Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 2.30 p.m., y d 6 p.m. New Plymouth—Daily. 8.10 a.m. 12.10 p.ni.. 2.30 p.m.. and 6 p.m. Ngaere—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m.. and 6 p.m Normanby—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.m., and 2.30 p.m. Pohokni a—Daily. 6 p.m. Pnniwhakau —Mondays and Saturdays 8.30 a.m.-. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Rowan—Daily, 8 p.m. South Island—Dally, 8.10 a.m.. 8.30 and 2.30 p.m. Strathmore —Daily, 6 p.m. Saturdays at 8.30 a.m. Tariki—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Taurakawa- —Saturday. 8.30 a.m. Te Wera—Daily, 6 p.m. Toko— Daily. 6 p.m.; also. Tuesday and Saturday, 8.30 a.m. Tututawa— Monday and Saturday 8.30 a.m. ; Wednesday. 6 p.m. Wairarapa -Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m.. and 2.30 p.m. Waitara —Daily,B.l.o a.m. 12.25 p.m., and 6 P-m. Wanganui-Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m.. 2.30 p.m.. and C p.m. Wellington—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Wbangamomona —Tuesday Wednesday Thursday, and Saturday, at j 6 p.rm ; also Monday and Saturday . nbora— Tuesday. Wednesday Saturday. 0 p.m.; also Mondays and at ? 3D g TAN TON,

PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not excccdiitg N.Z. Ans. U.K. s. fl. s. d. s. d. 1lh 0 3O' 8 1 1 0 ‘21 !> 0 4J 1 2 1 0 3!b ! 0 G 1 8 ! ' 3 n lib 0 7) ■ 2 2,, 2 0 51b 0 9 2 8 2 0 G!l> 0 10.* 3 2 2 0 71b 1 0 3 8 2 1 0 81b 1 U 4 2 3 0 91b 13 ,4 81 . i 3 • 0 1()lb 1 41 4 B 3 0 ,3 0 rired on 11 lb i ■■ 1 6 5 u id additional war tax reqi each parcel.