POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 1 August 1916, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS.

Inland, the Coot and certain other South Sea Islands, lid for first 4ozs. or fraction thereof; §d for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom and British possessions, for each oz. or fraction thereof.

Postcards—lnland: Single Id, reply l£d. 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 Soz. or fraction thereof Id.

Parcels inland 31d first lb, lid each additional lb.

Newspapers.—Town and inland, Jd each.

REGISTRATION.

Registration insures proof of the delivery of mail-matter by placing it under the hand-to-hand check of every offiter 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 2Sd at the time of registration or subsequently.

In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered ; etter from any country with which Mew 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.

POSTAL NOTES,

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. British Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d to £1 are issued for payment in the UniKingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is: Up to 2s 6d, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £l, 3d. Mcnpy Orders (for places within

.'aw Zealand). —For sums not over £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 3d; £2O, Is; £25, Is 3d; £3O, Is sd; £35, Is 9d; £4O, 2s.

TELEGRAPH.

Tariff Rates—lnland: Ordinary tele* grams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature Bd, for every additional word |d.

Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature Is 2d, for every additional word, Id.