REDUCTION
POST AND TELEGRAPH CHARGES LETTERS, NEWSPAPERS AND TELEGRAMS (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day, The Postmaster-General has announced reductions in post and telegraph charges totalling about £300,000 a year. Letter postage is to be reduced from 2d to and newspaper postage from Id to |d. The charges for telegrams will lieordinary 9d for 12 words: urgent Is 6d for 12 words: night letters. 9d for 27 words. .The new scale Comes into force- on February Ist next.
RETURN TO PENNY POSTAGE
THE MIN ISTER HOPEFUL
WELLINGTON, . This Day
In announcing the postal reductions the Hon. J. G. Coates says overhead charges have been reduced by about £400,000 annually and there will be a large surplus if business kept up. There is not sufficient margin yet to warrant a reduction of postage to a penny, but he hopes with careful management it will get back to it. The present rates are lower than in Australia and with the reductions New Zealand will have the cheapest, rates within the Empire.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 December 1922, Page 5
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169REDUCTION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 December 1922, Page 5
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