POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 25 August 1916, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other Soutji Sea Islands, IJd for first 4ozs. or fraction thereof; id for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom and British possessions, lid for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards —Inland: Single Id, reply lid. All other places: Single lid, reply 2id. 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 3id first lb, lid each 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 offieer 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 of an additional fee of 2id 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. 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. BVitish Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d to £1 are issued for payment in the Unii ' Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is; Up to 2s Gel, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £l, 3d. Money Orders (for places within New Zealand). —For sums not oyer £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, 9d; £2O, Is; £25, Is 3d; £3O, Is sd; £35, Is 9d; £4O, 2s. TELEGRAPH. Tariff Rates —Inland: Ordinary tele» grams, 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

Mails close at the Taihape Post Office as follows:—Daily (except Sundays) : 5 a.m.—Utiku, Wanganui, Mataroa, Tunangarere, Hihitahi,. Booth’s Mill, Waiouru, Rangataua, Ohakune, Karioi. 7 a.m. —Ohutu, Taoroa. 8 a.m.—Main Trunk South, 9.40 a.m. —Utiku, Ohingaiti, Maigaonoho.'Hunterville, Taranaki (R.P.0.) 12.15 p.m.—Mataroa, Tunangarere, Hihitahi, Ohakune, Ohakune Junction, Horopito. 3.15 p.m.—Utiku, Mangawekta, Hunterville, Marton, Marton Junction,

Feilding, Palmerston North, Wanganui. 5 p.m. —Mataroia, Rangataua, Ohakune. 7 p.m. —Main Trunk North, Raetihl. 9.45 p.m. —Auckland, Wellington. Moawbango—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday—l2.ls p.m. Rural. Kaweka Road —Tuesday and Friday, 8.30 a.m. Ngawaka—Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.xn. Papakai Road —Daily 4.30 p.m. Raukura —Daily 7 a.m. Taoroa Road —Daily 7 a.m. Wainui (Raukura) —Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m. Winiata —Daily 7 a.m. Private Bags. P. Casey, J. G. Collins, E. Gilbert, F. Overton, G. A. Wheeler (Taoroa) —Daily 7 a.m, M. Morrison —Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m. POSTAGE RATE: BOOK OR PAPER; 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. Above 2oz. afid not exceeding 4oz. Id. „ 4oz. „ 6oz. l|d. „ 6oz. „ Boz. 2d. „ Boz. „ lOoz. 2S’d. „ lOoz. „ lib. 3d. „ lib. „ 21b. 4Jd „ 2.1 b . 31b 6d. ~ 31b. „ 41b. 7id., 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 id per article must b© added in each case. The new rates for books and printed papers were adopted on the 2Tst January, 1916; those for ttern and sample packets operate on tne 18th February, 1916. REGISTERED MAGAZINE: POSTAGE FOR AUSTRALIA AND FIJI. Bo that the postage oir 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 id. Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4oz. Id. „ 4oz. „ Boz. Id.* Every additional 4oz. or fraction thereof, id. ♦An additional id. war-tax must be added in this case.