POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 52, 5 June 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards Inland (including Cook Islands), Id for cavn 4oz. or fraction thereof, and |d for each succeeding 2qz, United Kingdom, British possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago. Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam. Servia, and Postal Agencies 1.1 Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2J(I for the first oz; or fraction thereof, and 1-Jd for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof. Post Cards.- inland, single, id; reply, Id; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d. Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered). —All places, £d per 2oz. Magazines (registered), inland, Jd for every Boz. or fraction thereof. Foreign. |d per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must be loft ope:\ Commercial capers.—Town (for accounts, etc., only) id for 2ozs.. or Id for first 4oz. and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland. Id for first 40z.. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2id and id for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —In land, £d 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.- Jd additional, is required on -ill the above. Newspapers. —Town and Inland id each. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Cevlon, India. Jamaica. Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If under Boz. sent 'by first available route; over Soz. sent by direct steamer only; unless specially addiessed and paid at rate of H for first 4oz. and id tor each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz. a*nd «ach extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. Cnarges.— At Exchanges continuously open—Business establishments, £7 ; private residences. Co 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 ( i a.m. to 5 p.m. monev orders. Plus telegraph charge. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not owed-