POSTAL INFORMATIOIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 91, 19 July 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATIOIN.

POSTAL HATES. Letters and Letter Cards.— lnland including Cook Islands), Id for ea-Jl) loz. or fraction thereof, and id foi each succeeding 2oz, Nnited Kingdom, British possessions. United States. Chili' Costa Rica. Egypt Italy, M<-xi-co, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Fago Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, ami I'oitu •'uese Colonift. Siam, Servia, and Postal Agencies ia Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each uz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2\d for the first rtz, or fraction thereof, and 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, id per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must ho left ope^

Commercial papers.— Town (for accounts, etc., only) id for 2ozs.. or Id for first -loz. and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland. Id for first -low,. 1 and id for each succeeding 2oz. A,\\ ( places lOoz. 2Jd. and id for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection).' '• Pattern Sample Packets.— ln land, id first 2oz. 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. Jd each, United Kingdom, Australia. Canada, Ceylon, Indi?, Jamaica. Natal, Orange River, Sotah Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If under Boss, sent by first available route; over So/, sent by direct steamer only; unless specially adduced and paid at rate of H for first 4oz, and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz. and Ad *»cb extra 2oz.

TELEPHONES Cnargus.—At kxeftanges continuous. I.v open—Business establishments. £7; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunodin. Invercargill, Napier. Hastings, Paimerston North, and Wanganui are open all.day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. money orders, plus telegraph charge. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed' ing:—

id additional war tax required on each parcel. Money Orders. (By Post.)—Payable in New Zealand, for each £5 or fraction of £5. 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa and Tonya, £2, Gel; £5, Is; £7, Is (id; £lO. 2s; £l2, 2s Cd; £ls. 3s; £l7, 3s fit!, £2O; 4s; maximum £4O. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada, United States, Hawaii and Germany. 3d for sadi £1 or fraction therecf. (By Telegraph)— Within New Zealand, 3d for every £o or fraction of £.">. and a telegraph fee of Is. Australia, at rate of postal

CABLE RATVS. s. d. Australian States 0 'H per word Fiji 0 G " Norfolk Island 0 6 *' United States 2s 4d to 2 8 Cape Colony 2 7 United Kingdom 3 0 2d additional war tax required on each message. (Signature and address counted as part of the message). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Post Office. Stratford, as under ; For— . Auckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.: also Tuesdays and Fridays, at b' p.m. Cardiff—Daily, 8 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Eltham—Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 9.28 a.m., 2.30 £.ni. and 0 p.m.

' N.Z. Aus. U.K. s. d. S. ( j s. d. lib 0 3 0 8 1 l) 21b 0 4 } 1 2 1 0 31b 0 6 1 8 1 (J 41b 0 7* 2 2 2 0 51b 0 9 2 8 2 0 Gib 0 10 i 3 2 2 0 71b 1 0 3 8 2 '0 81b i n 4 2 3 0 91b 1 3 4 8 3 0 101b 1 4} 4 8 3 0 111b 1 6 5 0 3 0