POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 April 1917, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

SETTERS AND KE7TTER CARDS, Biland, the Cook aid certain otter tooth Sea Mauds, l|d for first 4om. r fraction thereof; id for each additonal 2oz. or fraction thereof. Th® lilted Kingdom and British poseeaions, lid for each oz. or fraction hereof. " * Postcards—lnland: Singlo Id, reply %L All other places: Single lid, eply 2id. HOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places: Id. per 2oz, or fraction lereof. Stagazines (registered) Jack copy not exceeding 80 %. Id; jtery additional Boz. or fraction lereof id; Parcels inland 3id first lb, lid each dditional lb. Newspapers.—Town and Inland, id

REGISTRATION.

Registration Insures proof of tbs of by placing it

rffier si© hand-to-hand check of every with it. Regisrored matter should b© placed i gtrdhg covers. All classes of mater na|y he registered; but ebrumer ial pipers, printed papers, etc., rmist e so packed as to admit of easy ©xminaflon.

Every' person who registers a letsf is entitled to a receipt for it ■om the office at which it Ig reglfrfifed. If a further receipt is desired

On the addressee, this will be Ob[ned upon payment by of additional fee of 2Sd at the time

I registration or subsequently. In the event o£ the loss of an inihd registered letter or a registered stter from any country with which few Zealand has a reciprocal arr&ngeaSnt as to indemnities the Postinaaconsents, under certain ionditfons, to he liable to pay a sum ot exceeding '£2.

POSTAL NOTES,

New Zealand. —The notes are issued or nine amounts, upon which pouhdge is charged as follows: —For notes 1 1 Is, Is 6d, 2s and 2g 6d, poundage id; 3s and ss, poundage Id; 10s, 15s, md 20s, poundage 2d. BVitish Postal Orders. —British pos;al orders for fixed sums from 6d to gl are issued for payment In the tJhl■'l Kingdom and some of the British Kfesessions. The poundage is; fp o 2s Gd, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £i, 3d.. Money Orders (ffer peaces Withlh few Zealand). —For sums not otaf E 5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, id; £io, Is; £25, Is 3d; £3O, la sd; E 35, Is 9d; £4O, 2s.

TELEGRAPH.

Tariff Rates —I6land: Ordinary tele< •tarns, from any station to any staifbn, for 12 words or less, including cffdress and signature Bd, for every idditional word |d. Urgent telegrams. —For 12 words or ass, including address and signature ip 2d, for every additional word. Id.

HAILS.

Mails close at the Taihape Post !>ffice as follows:—Daily (except Sunlays);— t a.m. —Utiku, Wanganui, Mataroa, Turangarere, Hihitahi, Booth’s Mill, Waiouru, Rangataua. Ohakune, Kai*T'. \ a.m. —Gbutu, Taoroa. 5 am. —Main Trunk South. f. 40 a.m.—lTtilcu, Ohingaiti, MaigaonoHunterville, Taranaki fR.P.O.) 12.15 p.m.—Mataroa, Tumngarere, Hihitahi. Ohakune, Ohakune Junction, Foropito. • '«

3.15 p.m.—Utiku, Mangaweka, Huntervlile, Marion, Marion Junction, Fotldln®, Palmerston North, 'Wanganui 5 p.m.—Mataroa, Rangataua, Ohakune. 7 p.m.—Main Trunk North, Raetihi. 9.45 p.m.—Auckland, Wellington. Momwhango—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday—l2.ls p.m. Rural. Kaweka 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 ia.m. Wainui (Raukura) —Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m. Winluta —Dally 7 a.m. Private Bags. P. Casey, J. G. Collins, B. Gilbert, P. Overton, G. A. Wheeler (Taoroa) —Daily 7 a.m. M. Morrison—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m, POSTAGE RATE: HOOK 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 fi.ll cases where they formerly exceeded them.

The new inland rates lare as follows for books and printed paper@

'Hie inland maximum weight for books and printed papers is 4 lb. For pattern and sample packets— Up to 4lb„ same as for books and

printed papers Above 41b. and not exceeding 51b. 9d. The inland maximum weight for pattern and sample packets is 51h.

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 21st January, 1916; those for pattern and sample packets operate on the 18th February, 1916.

REGISTERED MAGAZINE: POST-

AGE FOR AUSTRALIA AND FIJI

So that the postage on registered magazines for Australia and Fiji will not exceed the Postal Union rate, fhe postage is to he 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 |d. war-tax must be added In this case.

Up to 2oz ... 31 Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4oz. 3U« Id. ” 4oz. 6oz. lid. » 6oz. „ 8oz. 2d. « Soz. M 10os. 2id. „ lOoz. „ lib. 3d. „ lib. 21b. 4|d 21b 31b 6d. - 3! *>- 41b. 7Jd.