POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 38, 12 September 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards Inland 'including Cook Islands), Id for each foz. or fraction thereof, and id for each succeeding 2oz. Nnited Kingdom, British possessions. United States, Chili. Costa Rica. Egypt Italy, Mexico. Nicaragua, Nigeria, ‘ Peni, Pago Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies. Siam, Servia. and Postal Agencies m Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each uz. or fraction thereof; all other places for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and lid for each succeeding oz. nr fraction thereof. Cards. —Inland, 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, |d per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must be left ope v ' Commercial papers.—Town (for „c----coimts, 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. AH other places lOoz. 2£d and id for every additional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern arid 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 all the above. Newspapers.—Town and Inland, id each. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Indif 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 td extra 2oz.

TELEPHONES Cnarges.—At Lxcnanges continuous ly open—Business establishments, £7 ; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge ui £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 Q a.m. to 5 p.m. monev orders, plus telegraph charge. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted to the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed

id additional war tax required on each parcel. Money Orders. (By Boat.)— Payable in New Zealand, for each £5 or fraction of £5. 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, £2, fid; £5, Is; £7, Is fid; £lO, 2s; £l2. 2s fid; £ls. 3s; £l7, 3s fid, £2O; 4s; maximum £lO. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada, United States, Hawaii and Germany. 3d for each £.l or fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)— Within Now Zealand, 3d for every £o nr fraction of £5. and a telegraph fee of Is. Australia, at rate of postal CABLE HAT(,s. a. d. Australian States 0 IT per word Fiji Of! ” Norfolk Island 0 6 ” United States 2» Id to 2 3 ” Cape Colony 2 7 ”

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