Rates of Postage.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 2

Rates of Postage.

liETTBfiS. „ Id fos each half oosce orfiacHon thereof. , iH for etuoh hall ounce or fraction thereof. -.- 00l- \ ' Coo^, | i. <"c , r after. ] j. Km folk, Pit- 1 f r"Fn, Xctmn,,ui, ' £ r l f ot c^-ch half ojzoee Solomon a>'() f .-' wflwn theieof. loiijjAn Islands, Banish New Qiiinea, New ■. 3-Jol?ides / Ail other places two p&nes half penny ever., half ounce or fraction tbeieof.

POST CAJIDS. Tov/n, Inland ustralia, and South Sea Islsnds, single, Id; reply, 2d. other places, single, l£d reply, 3d. BOOKS AND PMNTED PAPEHS. All places, Jd for each 2oz or fraction thereof. .Christmas or any other seasonable or complimentary cards come under this head

COMMEROIAi PAPERB. Town, half-peney if not exceeding half ounce, or Id for the first 4oz or fi action theieof, and a halfpenny foi each succeeding 2oz or fiaction theieof. fniand, Id for the fiist 4oz 01 less, and alfpenny for each enceoeding 2oz or thereof Aasfcialia and ail other places twopence halfpenny for the first lOoz, and halfpenny for each succeeding 2oz or fiaction theieof.

BOW TO PAOH. A book packet may be posted either ! ithout a cover (in which ease it must not be fastened in any \ray) or in a cover j entirely open at one or both ends. It may i he tied at the ends with siring, but the iring mast be easy to unfasten.

SJMITB OF BWB AND WEIGHT. The limits of size for book-packets are ISm. in any direction. If made up in the form of a roll, a packet may measure up ♦■o 2ft. Gin. in length and 4in. in diameter ; the weight must not exceed 41b.

PATTERN AND SAMPLK PACKETS. All places, not exceeding 4oa, Id ; e% cry additional 2oz or fraction thereof, | halfpenny. \

magazines (not registered). All places except Queensland, halfpenny per 2oz or h action thereof. Queensland, Id per 4oz or h action theieof.

joagazines (regieteied). New Zealand, Auatialian colonies, I excep Queensland and Western Austiaia, and Tasmania: Each eop>, firbt Soz, Id; e^eiy additional 4oa or fiaction heieof, halfpenny. Qneensland, Id foy 4oz or fi action tneieof Western Australia and other places, as unregistered magazines.

Town and Inland, halfpenny each. Australia, except Queensland, aad South bea Islands, Id each. All other places,, inducting Queensland, Id each if not exceeding 4oz, and halfpenny additional for every succeeding 2oa 01 fraction fchaieof. A newspaper rnuat not oontain any ■wilting beyond the name and addiess of ih addressee, the initials oi name and addiess of the sender, and an^ maiks 01 signs simply intended to call altantion to passage in a text.

PAECELS. Inland, 6d for the fhst lib, and 3u for each succeeding lib or fraction theieof. Aiistialian Colonies, Cook, Samoan, Mjrfoik, end Hawaiian Islands, 8d for the ..at lib, an 4 6d for each sucoeeding lib iracuon tiieieof. Tho post office Is not, by law, responpibi for Any loss or inconvenience which p. r v aiise from the nou-delivery, missnding or mi^-dehvery of Buy unregifeieJ letter, or other postal packet, nor is it esponsible for any injury which u packet T-ay Bus.t«iiii during, transmission. To guard against thehr being injured, all postal packets which are likely bo suffer irora stamping or from great pressure should be placed va strong covers.

REGISTRATION, Tho fee for all places ia 3d. The Bender of a legisteied article may obtain an acknowledgement of its due receipt by the addressee on payment, at the time of posting of the article, of an " acknowledgment fee" of twopence halfpenny, in addition to the ordinary registration fee. Any letter, letter oaid, post caid, book, 01 ether packet, newspaper, or inland .parcel will be accepted for regißtraiioo Parcels for places beyond thoeoiorjjj? cannot be legistared.

X*a.lE FEE LETTERS. Late fea letters must bear in addition to ordinary postage, Id tor inland letters. i 2d for letters for Australia and the ' South Sea Islands. > Twopence .halfpenny for all other places. • Id for letter cardß or poßt cards however addressed. Such letters may be posted in the guard's van up to the time of departure of the train.

TELEBBATH BASES EN NEW ZBAJiAWD. Ordinary Telegrams. From ft»y station to any station, Po the words or less, including address and signature, 6d. For every additional word, Id. Urgent Telegrams. For the first 12 -words or less, including address and signature, Is. For every additional word, 2d, On Sundays, doable the above rates.