POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 April 1917, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

BETTERS AND LETTER CARDS.

- Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, IJd 4osc. or fraction thereof; id for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof. Ihe United Kingdom and British possessions, lid for each oz. or fraction thereof. '

postcards—lnland: Single Id, reply i|t. All other places: Single lid, reply 2id. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS.

11l places: Id. per 2oz. or fraction thereof.

Magazines (registered) copy not exceeding Boz. Id; SBW’ery additional Boz. or fraction thereof id. parcels inland Sid first lb, lid each additional lb.

Newspapers.—Town and Inland. |d each.

REGISTRATION. Registration insures proef of the daßyery of mail-matter by placing it tfie hand-to-hand chock of every officer dealing with it. RfegiSftlred matter should be placed In Strong covers. All classes of matter may be registered; but commer eial printed papers, etc., must {be so packed as to admit of easy examination.

Bvery person who registers- a. letJter Is entitled to a receipt for it from the office at which. it is regisit a further receipt is desired jfm the addressee, this will he obPifeed upon payment by of prf additional fee of 2id at the time t 3€ registration or subsequently. In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered letter from any country with which jNew Zealand has a reciprocal arrangeas to indemnities the Postmas-,tef-'6eneral 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 Ot Is, Is 6d, 2s and 2s 6d, poundage id; Ss and ss, poundage Id; 10s, 15s, and 20s, poundage 2d.

jSfritish Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d to {£ijtp.Q issued for payment in the UniM Kingdom and some of the British pc&seseipna. The poundage is: #p Ob' 2s 6d, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £l, 3d., Money Orders (Tor pieces within Netv Zealand). —For sums not oyer !825 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; : '£l6, sd; £2O, Is; £25, Is 3d; £3O, Is sd; f£S5, Is 9d; £4O, 2s. } “

TELEGRAPH. i Tariff Rates —Inland; Ordinary t6le« Sr&ns from any station to any utm lor 12 -words or less. Including and signature Bd, for every additional word id. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or Is®S, Including address and signature Wp 2d, for every additional word, Id. (

HAILS. f ■ ■ | Mails close at the Taihape Post ©Sice as follows: —Daily (except SunjSsys):—

s&.m. —Utiku, Wanganui, Mataroa, i Twrangarere, Hihitahl, Booth’s ' MiH, Waiouru, Rangataua, Oha-

kune, Kariol. {? a.m. —Obutu, Taoroa.

g a. rr>. —Main Trunk South.

a.m. —Utiku, Ohingaiti, Mafgaenoho, Hunterville, Taranaki (R.P.0.) |2.IS n rn —Mntaroa, Turongarere, Hl*

hitahi, Ohakune, Ohakuna June* 1 t?on, Horoplto.

3.15 p.ai.—Utiku, Mangawekuv, Hunterville, Marton, Marion Junction. Paslding, Palmerston North, Wangaaui. 5 p.m.—Mataroa, Rangafaua, Ohakune. 7 p.m.—Main Trunk North, Raetlhi. 9.45 p.m.—Auckland, Wellington. Meawhapgo—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday—l2.ls p,m. Rural. Kaweka Roed—Tuesday and Friday, 8.30 a.m. Ngawaka—Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.m. Papakal Roiad—Daily 4.30 p.m. Raukura —Daily 7 a.m. Taoroa Road—Dally 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, P. Overton, Q. A. Wheeler (Taoroa) —Daily 7 a.m. M. Morrison—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m.

POSTAGE RATS: BOOK OR PAPER;

PATTERN OR SAMPLE PACKET.

The inland rates for books and printed papers and for pattern and sample pacicets have been reduced to correspond with the Inland parcel rates in all cases where they formerly exceeded them.

The new Inland rates lire as follows for books and printed paper 8

The inland maximum weight for hooks 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 la 51b. The war-tax of $d 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, £he 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.

Up to 2oz. .. Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4oz. a«. Id. ,i 4 oz. »# 6oz. lid. » 6oz. 99 8oz. 2d. » 8oz. ft lOoz. 2id. » 10oz, 99 lib. 3d. „ 11b. tf 21b. 4Jd » 21b 99 31b 6d. „ 31b. 99 41b. 7id.