POST AND TELEGRAPH

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 April 1917, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH

INFORMATION.

IsJSTTERS AND LETTER CARDS.

' inland, the Cook and certain other SSHjtii Sea Islands, lid 4oza. tor 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 I'id, reply 2id. EDOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS, ill places: Id. per 2oz. or fraction -thereof. ' :■' • (registered) copy not exceeding Boz, Id; additional Boz. or fraction ? thereof id. ! parcels inland 3|d first lb, lid each additional lb.

Newspapers.—Town and Inland, id ■eadh. ;

REGISTRATION. , r •* Registration insures proof of the dejlyerf of malf-mitter by placing it the hand-to-hand check of every dealing with it. matter should be placed in strong covers. All classes of matter may he registered'; but commir cial papers, printed pdpers, etc., nniat so packed as to admit of easy examination.

IjSlrdry person who registers- a letieti 'is entitled to a receipt for i,t from the office at which it is regisIf a further receipt is desired the addressee, this will he bbupon payment by of gjf additional fee of 2Sd 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 !N#w Zealand has a. reciprocal arrangeas to indemnities the jpostinas-teif-UehefaT consents, under certain cohditfblis, to be liable to pay a sum .not exceeding '£2. ' -

POSTAL NOTES.

' New Zealand. —The notes are issued --for nine amounts, upon which pound-

age 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. jSnfish Postal Orders. —British pos“tai orders for fixed sums from 6d to [£l are issued for payment in the Hill'd kingdom and some of the British The poundage is: tUt» to* : 2s 6d, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £l, 3d.. Money Orders (f&r within Ndw Zealand). —For sums not oyer ]£s the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, ■fid; £2O, 1b; £25, Is 3d; £3O, 1b sd; - !£35, Is 9d; £4O, 2s.

TELEGRAPH.

Tariff Rates—lnland: Ordinary tele* gyams, from any station to any atati'dn, 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 Ip 2d, for every additional word, Id.

HAILS.

Mails, close at the Taihape Post Office as follows:—Daily (except Sun-

days);—

s v a.m.—Utiku, Wanganui, Mataroa, Turangarere, Hihitahi, Booth’s Mill, Waiouru, Rangataua, Ohakune, Karloi. 7 a.m. —Ohutu, Taoroa. g* g.m —Main Trunk South.

|9;40 a.m—Utiku, Ohingaitl, Maigaono1b h 6, Hunterville, Taranaki (R.P.0.) 1215 p.m Mataroa, Turangarere, Hi* • hitahi, Ohakune, Ohakhne 3nn<S* • tion, Horoplto. '

3.15 p.m.—TJtlku, Mangaweba, Huntervine, Marton, Marton Junction,' FaUdlng, Palmerston North, gaauL--5 p.m.—MatarOa, Rangataua, Ohakune. 7 p.m.—Main Trunk North, Raetihl. 9.45 p.m. —Auckland, Wellington. Moawhango—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday— 12.15 p.m. Rural. Kaweka Road—Tuesday and Friday, 8.30 a.m. Ngatraka—Wednesday and Saturday, S a.ih. Papakal Road —Daily 4.30 p.m. Raukura —Daily 7 a.m. Taoroa Hoad—Hally 7 ft.m. Wainui —Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m. Winiata —Daily 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: 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 rate* lire as follows for books and printed papers

The Inland maximum weight for hooks and- printed papers Is 4 lb. For pattern and sample packets— Up to 41b., same as for hooks and printed papers Above 41b. and not exceeding 51b. 9d. The Inland maximum weight for pattern and gample packets is 51b. The war-tax of id per article must be added in each case. The new rates for books an<j printed papers were adopted on the 21st January, 1916; those for pattern and sample packets operate on the 18th February, 1916. REGISTERED MAGAZINE: POSTAGE 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. Id. 99 4oz. „ 60z. l£d. 99 6oz. » 8oz. 2d. U 8oz, >, lOoz. 2Jd. 99 lOoz. „ 11b. 3d. 99 Ub. 21b. 4Jd 99 21b „ 31b 6d. 99 31b. „ 41b. 7Jd.