POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.
LETTERS AND LETTER CARDS. Inland, the Cook and certain other South Sea Islands, id. for first 4 oz. or fraction thereof; %d. for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, id. for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland: Single Vzd ; reply, Id. All other places; Single, id; reply 2d. BOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places.— Vzd. per 2 oz, or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland; Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., Vzd. ; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, Vzd. Newspapers.—Town and inland, Vzd. each. REGISTRATION. Registration insures proof of the delivery of mail-matter by placing it under the hand-to-hand check of every officer dealing with it. Registered matter should be placed in strong covers. All classes of matter may be registered; but commercial papers, printed papeis, ete., must be so packed as to admit of easy examination. Every person who registers a letter is entitled to a receipt for it from the office at which it is registered. If a further receipt is desired from the addressee, this will be obtained upon payment by the sender of an additional fee of 2 x /zd. at the time of registration 01 subsequently. In the event of the loss of an inland registered letter or a registered letter from any country with which New Zealand has a reciprocal arrangement as to indemnities the Postmaster-General consents, under certain conditions, to be liable to pay a sum not exceeding £2. POSTAL NOTES New Zealand. The notes are issued tor nine amounts, upon which poundage is charged as follows : —For notes of 1/, ;/6, 2/- and 2/6, poundage Vzd ; 3/- and 5/-, poundage id.; 10/-, 15/-, and 20/-, poundage 2d. British Postal Orders. —British postal orders for fixed sums from 6d. to £l are issued for payment in the United Kingdom and some of the British possessions. The poundage is : Up to 2/6, Id ; to 15/-, 2d ; to £l, 3d. Money Orders (for places within New Zealand). —For suras not over £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, gd; £2O, is,; £25, Is 3d; £3O, is sd; £35, is 9d; £4O, 2s. TELEGRAPH. Tariff rates. telegrams, from any station to any station, for 12 words or less, including address and signature, 6d; for every additional word, %d. Urgent telegrams.—For 12 words or less, including address and signature, Is.; for every additional word, id.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1472, 13 November 1915, Page 4
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401POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1472, 13 November 1915, Page 4
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