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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 144, 19 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL The Sports Edition of the Evening Post will be published to-night, and will include reports of the various games and horse racing, as well , as the latest war news. The Postmaster-General announces that he has agreed with the PostmasterGeneral of the United, Kingdom to pass either way between New Zealand and the United Kingdom literature for the blind printed in the raised Braille characters as follows: — Maximum weight to be raised to 61b ; the present rate, of £d for 2oz. to be retained up to and including the weight of 200 a., but thereafter one uniform rate of 5d to be levied, irrespective of the extra weight up to j the 61b. Therefore, for a package of 20oz. in weight the postage will be sd, and for one weighing as much as 61b the postage will be only lOd. The Post-master-General is glad to make these concessions, knowing personally of the efforts of devoted men and women in New Zealand to alleviate the loneliness of some of our colonists so largely cut off from communication with their fellow beings as they are by the affliction of blindness. The same rates will apply within the Dominion to packets of printed papers printed in raised characters for the use of the blind despatched to or received by' private persons. Regulations are already published for the exchange free of postage of packets containing matter prepared in the raised characters and addressed to or sent by institutions for tho blind or to or by public libraries. It is necessary that all persons travelling to any European country should have passports. The Minister of Internal Affaire has written to the shipping companies, setting out this fact. Every person requiring a passport will have to submit, to enquiries before the Governor can be advised to sign a passport. Ap plication must be made to the Minister for Internal Affairs, Sir Francis Bell, a.nd in future an intprval of fourteen days will be allowed between the application and tho issue of the passport. The Council of the Wellington Centiai Chamber of Commerce has adopted a echeme, drawn up by Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, for the establishment of a fund for the protection of members by uniting for the purpose of securing the return to the Dominion of absconding debtors. A special committee has been set up to consider the details. "Blanket Bay" is n pleasant place these nights— particularly if the blankets are purchased from Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd. Some remarkable values nre advertised elsewhere in this issue.—