POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 April 1917, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

LETTERS and letter cards. Inland, the Cook and certain other • South Sea Islands, lid for first 4ozs. or fraction thereof; id for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof. The (United kingdom and British possesBions, lid for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards—lnland: Single Id, reply lid. All other plices: Single lid, i reply 2sd. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places: Id. per 2oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered) Pach copy not exceeding Boz. Id; 33very additional Boz. or fraction thereof id. Parcels inland 3Jd first lb, lid each -additional lb. Newspapers. —Town and inland, |d veach. r.—— *■:% r .... REGISTRATION. i . ’ Registration insures proof of the flelwy of mall-matter by placing it the hand-to-hand check of every (officer dealing with it. Registered matter should h© placed fin strong covers. All classes of matter may he registered; hut cornmer icial papers, printed papers, etc., imist go packed as to admit of easy examination. Ev'ery person who register* a letter is entitled to a receipt fox it from the office at which it, is regist’OTfid- If a further receipt is desired (from the addressee, this will he ob|jained upon payment by of an additional fee of 2id at the time of registration or subsequently. “'ln the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered fitter from any country with which New Zealand has a reciprocal arrangement as to indemnities the Postmas-ter-General consents, under certain to be liable to pay a sum mot 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 2 S 6d, poundage 2d; 3s and ss, poundage Id; 10s, 15s, ami 20s, poundage 2d. BVitish Postal Orders— British postalJfrders for fixed sums from 6d to :£1 ire issued for payment in the Uni-

->d Kingdom arid some of trie British pcjasessions. Trie poundage is; Up to 2s 6d, Id; %o 15s, 2d; to £l, 3d. Money Orders (for places within Nriw Zealand).—For sums not oyer (£5 trie charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, Sd; £2O. la; £25, Is 3d; £3O. Is sd; ’£3s. Is 9d; £4O, 2s. TELEGRAPH. Tariff Rates —Inland: Ordinary telegrams, from any station to any atatTon, for 12 words or less, including address and signature Bd, for every additional vord id.

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

MAILS. Mails close Taihape Post Office as (except Sundays):— * 6 a.m.—Utiku, Wangan.ul, Mataroa, Turangarere,' Hihitakl, Booth’s Waiouru, Rangataua, Ohakune, Kariol. 7 a.m.—Ohutu, Taoroa. #|a.m. —Main "Trunk South. \%iWk.O a.m.—Utiku, Ohingaiti, Malgaonolid, Huntervllle, Taranaki (R.P.0.) 0J.5 ■ p.m.—Mataroa, Hlr? ' 1 kitahl, Ohakune, Ohakune Juno■v:i if ■■»?■■■ , f-, tion, Horoplto. r •.

3.15 p.m—Utlku, Mangaweko, Hunterville. Marton. Marton Junction, Feilding, Palmerston North, Wanganui. 5 p.m.—Matama, Rangataua, Ohakune. 7 p.m.—Main Trunk North, Raetihi. 9.45 p.m.—Auckland, Wellington. Moawhango—Tuesday, Thursday, So*

turday—l2.ls p.m. Rural. Kaweks Road—Tuesday and Friday, 8.30 a.m. Ngawaka—Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.m. Papakal Road—Dally 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, B. 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 ore as follows for books and printed papers

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 slh. The war-tax of id per article must be added in each case. The new rates for books and printed papers were adopted on the 2lst January, 19'16; thq.se for pattern and sample packets operate on the 18th February, 1916. REGISTERED MAGAZINE: POSTAGE FQR AUSTRALIA AND FIJI. So that the postage on registered magazines for Australia and Fiji will not exceed the Postal Union rate, ;the postage 4s to he altered as under: Each copy not exceeding 2oz id. Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4oz. Id. „ 4oz. ~ 3oz. Id.* Every additional 4oz. or fraction thereof, id.

♦An additional id. war-tax must be added in this case.

Up to 2oz ■f id. Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4oz. id. „ 4oz. 9* 6oz. lid. » 6oz. 8oz. 2d. w 8oz. lOoz. 2id. „ lOoz. 11b. 3d. Ub. 21b. 4id „ 21b 3lb 6d. „ 31b. 99 41b. 7id.