POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 99, 28 July 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

—•- POSTAL RATES, Letters anti Letter Cards,— lnland (including Cook Islands), id fob oiici. 4oz. or fraction, thereof, and,, id - fur each succeeding 2oz, Nnited Kingdom, British possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica. Egypt. Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago. Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese' Colonics. Siam. Servia, and Postal Agencies m'‘Chinese Treaty Ports. Id for each dfc'J or fraction thereof; all other places 2|C for the first ay,, or fraction thereof, and lid for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof. Post Cards, —lnland, single, id; 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, id for every Boz. or fraction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must be left open, 1 Commercial papers,—Town (foi 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 iUoz. 2id and id for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection): Pattern Sample Packets,— ln laud, 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 all 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 Soz.isent by first av.dlaoJe route; over Boz. sent by direct steamer only; unless specially addxessod and paid at rate of Jd for first 4oz. and id tor each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz. and ~d each extra 2oz. TELEPHONES Cnarges. —At Exchanges continuous ly open—Business establishments. £7 ; private residences, £5, per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge ol £5. Telephono Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Raimerston North, and Wanganui are open ail day and all night, the other Exchanges chiefly from 0 a.in. to 5 p.m. monev orders, plus telegraph charge. PARCEL POST. Darnels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed

ad additional war tax required on each parcel. Money Orders. (By Post.)— Payable in New Zealand, tor each £5 01 fraction of £o. 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, ha; to, is; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s hd; £ls. 3s; £l7, 3s Gd, £2O; -is; maximum £-10. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada. United States,

mg:— u. K. N.Z. Aus. s. d. s. u. Si. d. 11b 0 3 0 8 1 0 21b 0 4* i 2 1 0 31b 0 6 1 8 1 0 41b 0 7J 2 2 2 0 51b 0 9 8 2 0 61b 71b 0 1UJ 1 0 3 3 2 8 2 2 0 0 81b I li i 2 3 0 91b 1 3 4 8 3 0 101b 1 44 4 8 3 0 lilb 1 6 5 0 3 u