RESULTS OF THE POSTAL CONFERENCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2183, 2 April 1891, Page 3

RESULTS OF THE POSTAL CONFERENCE.

Wellington, April 1. The following are the principal alterations and innovations agreed to at the Postal Conference in Sydney which will affect New Zealand : An insurance scheme for post parcels up to £SO, to London and £2O intercolonially ; fee 6d for every £5.

The maximum of money orders is raised to £2O instead of £lO ; the new rates to be 6d for £2 j Is for £3, and so on to 4s for £2O instead of Is for £5 and 2s for £lO.

The maximum weight of newspapers is to be ten oz. A fee of 5s is to be charged for the registration of newspapers at a GKP.O. Intercolonial newspaper rate to be -£d. Trade accounts and similar documents to go at book rates. New Zealand will also probably admit them at circular rates within town limits.

The intercolonial parcels post rates to be 8d for the first pound, and 6d for each additional pound, The present rates are Is 2d for the first two pounds, and 7d for each additional. One telegram may be sent to cover more than one telegraphic money order sent by the same person.

Book packet rates are reduced to 1 d for every fom ounces in place of Id for every two ounces inland, and Id for every ounce intercolonial. With the following proposals, which were agreed to by the other colonies, Few Zealand disagreed j Names of addresses on tplegrams being charged for. In New Zealand

they go free up to ten words, i’o bank notes being sent in open packets. To unpaid letters and packets being detained and sent back to the writers To the abolition of intercolonial cipher messages being sent at single rates. To limiting the number of words of press messages to any paper during the day to hundred.