LITERATURE FOR BLIND.
REDUCED POSTAGE BATES,
[BY telegp.afii.— press association.] Wellington*, Saturday. The Postmaster-General announces that ho 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 raised Braille characters as follows : —Maximum weight to be raised to 61b. Present rate of halfpenny for 2oz to be retained up to find including a weight of 20oz, but thereafter one uniform rate of fivepence to be levied, irrespective of extra weight, up to the 61b. Therefore, for a packet of 20oz in weight the postage will be fivepence, and for one weighing as much as 61b the postage will be only tenperscc.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15949, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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117LITERATURE FOR BLIND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15949, 21 June 1915, Page 5
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