POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 8 September 1916, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, ljd for first ,4ozs. or fraction thereof; Id for each additional 20z.. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom and British possessions, ljd for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards—lnland: Single Id, reply lid. AH other, places: Single lid, reply 2Jd. N 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 £d. Parcels inland 3Jd first lb, ljd 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 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 of an additional fee of 2Jd 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 am'ounts, 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, 15-s, and 20s, poundage 2d. British 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. M ney 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 Jd. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature Is 2d, for every "additional word, Id.