POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 21 July 1916, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

POSTAGE RATE: BOOK OR PAPER;

POSTAL NOTES,

TELEGRAPH

MAILS.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, for first 4ozs. or fraction thereof; id for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom and British possessions, l|d for each oz. or fraction -.hereof. Postcards—lnland: Single Id, reply Ud. All other places: Single lid, ’reply 21d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places: Id. per 2oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered) Each copy not exceeding Boz. Id; Every additional Boz. or fraction thereof Id. Parcels inland 31d first lb, lid eacl} additional lb, Newspapers.—Town and inland, id each.

REGISTRATION,

Registration insures proof of the delivery of mail-matter by placing it under the hand-to-hand check of every officer dealing with it. Registered matter should be placed in strong covers. All classes of matter may be registered; but commer cial papers, printed papers, etc., must be so packed as to admit of easy examination.

Every person who registers a letter is entitled to a receipt for it from the office at which it is registered. If a further receipt is desired from the addressee, this will be obtained upon payment by the sender of an additional fee of 21d at the time of registration or subsequently.

In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered letter from any country with which New Zealand has a reciprocal arrangement as to indemnities the Postmas-ter-General consents, under certain conditions, to be liable to pay a sum not exceeding £2.

New Zealand.—The notes 'are issued for nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows:—For notes of Is, is 6d, 2s and 2s 6d, poundage •Id; 3s and ss, poundage Id; 10s, 15s, and 20s, poundage 2d. ft’ritish Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d to £1 are issued for payment in the Uni-

Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is; Up to 2s Gd, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £l, 3d. Money Orders (for places within New Zealand). —For sums not over £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 9d; £2O, Is; £25, Is 3d; £3O, Is sd; £35, Is Sd; £4O, 2s.

Tariff Rates —Inland: Ordinary telegrams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature Bd, for every additional word id. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature Is 2d, for every additional word. Id.

Mails close at the Taihape Post Office as follows: —Daily (except Sundays):— 5 a.m. —Utiku, Wanganui, Mataroa, Turangarere, Hihitahi, Booth’s Mill, Waiouru, Rangataua, Ohakunc, Karioi. 7 a.m. —Ohutu, Taoroa. S a.m.—Main Trunk South. 9.40 a.m. —Utiku, Ohingaiti, Maigaonoho, Hunterville, Taranaki (R.P.0.) 12.15 p.m.—Mataroa, Turangarere, Hihitahi, Ohakune, Ohakune Junction, Horopito. 3.15 p.m.—Utiku, Mangaweka, Hunter-

Feilding, Palmerston North, Wan-

ganui. 5 p.m.—Mataroa, Rangataua, Ohakune, 7 p.m.—Main Trunk North, Raetihi. 9.45 p.m—Auckland, Wellington. Moawhango —Tuesday, Thursday, Sa-

turday—l2.ls p.m. Rural. Kaweka Road —Tuesday and Fri-

day, 8.30 a.m. Ngawaka—Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.m. Papakai Road —Daily 4.30 p.m. Raukuna —Daily 7 a.m. Taoroa Road —Daily 7 a.m. Wainui (Raukura)— Tuesday. Thurs-

day, Saturday, 12.15 p.m. Winiata—Daily T a.m. Private Bags. P. Casey, J. G. Collins, E. Gilbert, F. Overton, G. A. Wheeler (Taor-

oa) —Daily 7 a.m. M. Morrison— Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m.

PATTERN OR SAMPLE PACKET,

The inland rates for books and printed papers and for pattern and sample packets have been reduced to correspond with the inland parcel rates in all cases where they formerly exceeded them.

The new inland rates are as follows for books and printed papers Up to 2oz Id.

The inland maximum weight for books and printed papers is 4 lb. For pattern and sample packets— Up to 41b., same as for books and printed papers Above 41b. and not exceeding 51b. 9d. The inland maximum weight for pattern and sample packets is 51b. The war-tax of |d per article must be added in each case. The new rates for books and printed papers were adopted on the 2lst January, 1916; those for pattern and sample packets operate on the ISth February, 1916. REGISTERED MAGAZINE: POSTAGE FOR AUSTRALIA AND FIJI. So that the postage on registered magazines for Australia and Fiji will not exceed the Postal Union rate, the postage is to be altered as under: Each copy not exceeding 2oz |d. Above 20z. ! and not exceeding 4oz. Id. „ 4oz. „ Boz. Id.* Every additional 4oz. or fraction thereof, |d. *An additional |d. war-tax must be added in this case.

Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4oz. Id. „ 4oz. 99 6oz, l|d. „ 6oz. 99 8oz. 2d. „ 8oz. 99 lOoz. 2Sd. „ lOoz. 99 11b. 3d. „ 11b. 99 21b. 4Jd „ 21b 99 31b 6d. „ 31b. 99 41b. 7|d.