Postal Reform

New Zealand Tablet, 8 November 1906, Page 22

Postal Reform

..,. ! -" ?&ase to; remember the ; Fifth ".of*'. November,/:/; says last "Mondajr's punedln', .{ Evening ;star, r r , '"isfa legend , which Vjs obsolescent,;^ '.not" kciiualg^obspjete, and Sir Joseph Ward'"' would perhaps "that 41 Please to remember thc_ First "of '"November '"'"'might suitably take its place, so' far as New Zealand is concerned. Certainly, last .-Thursday shbiifd bjeTrmaTked': in . ., whit ?, •in the .. a n»als of „ the , Colony... ...First,^the InternationaL Exhibition .was opened £mid. promising " circumstances ; - secondly, ;_4he rate, of letter" postage "to America was, reduced from Td ,'per. half-ounce'V thirdly,- the injand'/rato of letter ppsiageVfpirall "at. once from .Id „ for o half an , ounce ,/to."'" Jld for fouV ounces; ana, f ourtWy,' ;;the system of "telegrams .. at a word "came "into, operation.' "'. ' '" ' J