POST AND TELEGRAPH INFORMATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1474, 18 November 1915, Page 4

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; for each additional 2 oz. or fraction thereof. The United Kingdom, and British possessions, id. for each oz. or fraction thereof. Postcards. —Inland: Single %d ; reply, id. All other places : Single, Id; reply 2d. iBOOKS AND PRINTED PAPERS. All places.—%d. per 2 oz. or fraction thereof. Magazines (registered).— Inland ; Each copy not exceeding 8 oz., %d.; every additional 8 oz. or fraction thereof, %d. Newspapers.—Town and inland, %cl. 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 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 pertain conditions, to be liable to pay a sura 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 V 2 d ; 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 sums not over £5 the charge is 3d; £lO, 6d; £ls, qd; £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.