POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 April 1917, Page 7

POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

BETTERS AND LETTER CARDS.

v v Jaland, the Cook and certain other fjputh Sea Islands, lid 4oz*. jbr traction thereof; id for each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof. The iJJnited Kingdom and British possessions, lid for each oz. or fraction

thereof. Postcards—lnland; Single Id, reply DL|d. All other places: Single lid, reply 21d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS.

All places: Id. per 2oz. or fraction thereof.

Magazines (registered) 3g)ach copy not exceeding Boz. Id; ©very additional Boz. or fraction thereof id.

Parcels inland 3id first lb, lid each additional lb.

Newspapers.—Town and inland, id each.

REGISTRATION. ■ Registration insures proof of the d,eUyeyy of mail-matter by placing it usder 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, as entitled to a receipt for it from the office at which it is registered, If a further receipt is desired £rgm the ad_dressee, this will be Obtained upon payment by of an additional fee of 2|d 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 Postmaa-te/-General consents, under certain ■conditions, to be liable to pay a sum not exceeding '£2.

POSTAL NOTES.

New Zealand. —The notes are issued f-or nine amounts, 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, 15s, and 20s, poundage 2d. JBVitish Postal Orders. —British posorders for fixed sums from 6d to '£l are issued for payment in the Uhii Kingdom and some of the British poss.sessi.on3. The poundage is; Ifp to 2s Cd, Id; to 15s, 2d; to £l, Bd. Money Orders (for wlthiii New Zealand). —For sums not oyef '■£s the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d;' £ls, •fid; £2O, Is; £25, Is 3d; £3O, la 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 •additional word |d.

Urgent telegrams. —For 12 words or less, including address and signature 1? 2d, for every additional word. Id.

MAiLS.

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

days)

5 a.xn.—Utiku, Turangarere, Hihitahi, Booth’s Mill, Waiouru, Rangataua, Ohakune, Kariol. 7 a.m.—Ohutu, Taoroa.

a.m.—Main Trunk South'. a.m. —Utiku, Ohlngaitl, Maigaono-

lid, Hunterville, Taranaki (R,P;G.) 12.15 p.m,—Mataroa, Turangarere, Ht- • hitahi, Ohakune, Ohakiine JuneI tion, Horopito. ■

3.15 p.m.—Utiku, Mangawektn, HunterTill e, Marton, Marten Junction, Feilding, Palmerston North, IWanganuL 5 p.m.—Mataroa, Rangataua, Ohakune. 7 p.m.—Main Trunk North, Rae,tlhi ; 9.45 p.m.—Auckland, Wellington. Moawhango—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday—l2.ls p.m. Rural. Kaweka Road —Tuesday and Friday, 8.30 a.m. Ngawaka—Wednesday and Saturday, 8 a.in. Papakai Road —Dally 4.30 p.m. RaUkura —Daily 7 a.m. Taoroa Road—Dally 7 a.m. Wainui (Rauknra) —Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.16 p.m. Winlata —Dally 7 a.m. Private Bags. P. Casey, J. G. Collins, E. Gilbert, F. Overton, G. A. Wheeler (Taoroa) —Daily 7 a.m. M. Morrison—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 p.m.

POSTAGE RATH: 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 parcdl rates In all cases where they formerly exceeded them.

The new inland rates Ore as follows for books and printed papers Dp to 2oz Above 2oz. and not esceeding 4oz. Id.

The Inland maximum weight for books and printed papers is 4 lb. For pattern and sample packets— Dp 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 51b. 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, £he postage is to be altered as under: — Each copy not exceeding 2oz id. Above 2oz. and not exceeding 4os. Id. „ 4oz. „ Boz. Id,* Every additional 4oz. or fraction thereof, id, *An additional id. war-tax must be added In this case.

)» 4oz. 99 6oz. l|d. 99 5oz. 99 8oz. 2d. w 8oz. 99 lOoz. 2Jd. 99 lOoz. 99 11b. 3d. 99 11b. 99 21b. -4Jd 99 21b 99 31b 6d. 9f 31b. 99 41b. 7Jd.