POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 9, 5 December 1916, Page 2

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL HATES. Loiters and Letter Cards.—lnland 'including Cook Islands'), Id for ois:■!. ton. or fraction thereof, and {d for onr-h 7iieep.pdiT)sr 2ok. Nm'f-nd Kingdom. British possessions, United ■ States. Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt. Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Porn. Pagi; Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Port?! guose Colonics. Siam. Servia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each uz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2jt'. for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Post Cards.—lnland, single, Jd ; reply, Id ; all other plnees, single, Id; reply 2d Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered).—All pliioos, id per 2oz. Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz. or fraetior thereof. Foreign, jd per 2oz. or fraction thereof One end must bo left ope! 1 , Commercial papers.—Town (for *ccounts, etc., only) id lor 2ozs.. or Id for first 4oz and id each succeeding 2oz. fnlnnd. Id for first 40z.. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2Jd and id for every additional] 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern arid Sample Packets.—ln land. id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; >vor 2oz. as for "all other places." All .Hhei places, Id first 40z., every additional 2oz. or fraction Jd. Registration.—2d additional for all places. War Tax.--id additional, is required on all the above. Newspapers.— Town and Inland id ouch, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, Indi; Jamaica. Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If under Boz. sent by first available route; over •ion. sent by direct steamer only; unless specially addiessed and paid at rate of Id fot first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 2oz All other places Id each under toz. and Ad nr u:b extra 2oz.

YELLPHONEF Cnarg«s.—At li»xcTnangf j continuous. ■y open—Business establishments, £7 ; private resiliences, Aid per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an renal change oi £5. Telephone Exchanges at Ajckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invcrcargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open all day and ah night. The other Es';hanges chieliy from °l a.m. to 5 p.m. ruonev orders. Plus telegraph charge. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted tn the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed ing:—

id additional war tax ronuired on each parcel. Money Orders. (By Post.) -Parable in Mew Zealand, for each £5 or fraction of £5. 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, £2. 6d; £o. Is; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2. 2s (3d; £ls. 3s; £l7, 3s 6d. £2O; 4s; maximum i; 10 United Kingdom, British Possessions. Canada. I'niled P+ntes, Hawaii and Germany .Id foi jm •> £1 or fraction i;l»pr»»»-,J 'Bv T«legr,iptiV— Within New Zealand. 3d for or fraction of £5. and <» telegraph fee of Is. Australia, at rate of postal

CABLE ‘ Ji. H. <l. Australian States 0 4} per word Fiji 0 6 ” Norfolk Island 0 6 ” United States 2 s 4d to 2 3 Cape Colony 2 7 ” United Kingdom 3 0 ” 2d additional war tax required on cneli message. (Signature and address counted as pan of the message). MAIL NOTICES*. Mails close at the Post Office. Srratfoid, as under For— Auckland - Dully, 8.10 am.; also Tuesdays and Fridays, at 6 p.m.

N.Z. A.us. U.K. a. d. 9. J. a. d. Lib 0 3 0 8 1 0 i\b 0 H 1 2 1 0 31b 0 0 J « 1 0 41b 0 7i 2 2 2 0 51b 0 9 2 8 2 0 61b 0 10* 3 2 ,2 0 71b 1 0 3 8 2 0 Sib I 11 * 2 3 n Jib 1 3. A H 3 0 101b i 41 1 8 3 0 111b 1 6 5 0 3 0