THE PENNY POSTAGE

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 12, 16 January 1901, Page 1

THE PENNY POSTAGE

The Chief Postmaster, Mr G, W. Sampson, desires us to direct the attention of the public to the fact that the rates of postage, except for letters and letter-cards, have not been reduced. Commercial papers newspapers etc. still require the same postage, as before .As considerable doubt exists as to the exact extent of the ramifications of the penny postage lately inaugurated in the _ colony, and as queries have been addressed to us asking for information on the subject, we publish the following information supplied by the General Post Office at Wellington The postage on letters or letter-cards posted for delivery within the colony, or for the places enumerated in tho schedule below, is for each i-oz or fraction thereof, one penny. For places not named, the rate of postage will, for the present, remain at 2Ad for each doz or fraction thereof, except Australia, which will continue to be 2d. Schedule —United Kingdom; Cook, Ducie, Ester, Norfolk, Pitcairn, Samoan, Society, Solomon and Tongan Islands; New Hebrides; and the undermentioned British possessions and protectorates, viz; Aden, Ascension,. . Bahamas, Barbados, Bermudas, British Central Africa, Protectorate, British .East Africa Protectorate, British Guiana, British Honduras, British North Borneo, Canada, Cape Colony, Ceylon Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Hongkong, India, Jamaica Johor, Labuan Lagos, Leeward Islands (viz., Antigua, St Kitts, Nevis, Dominica, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands), Malay States (protected) (viz. Perak, Selangor, Negri-Sembilan, and Pahang,) Malta, Mauritius, Natal, Newfoundland, Nigeria (Northern), Nigeria, (Southern), Orange River Colony, St Helena, Sarawak, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Straits Settlements, Eobago, Transvaal, Trinidad, Turk’s Islands, Uganda, Windward Islands (viz., Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Zanzibar.