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NEW POSTAL RATES ALL LETTERS TO PAY 2D Is MINIMUM FOR. TELEGRAMS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The new postal and telegraph charges are announced. Briefly, the changes are as follows : Letters, 2d, instead of Id. Post cards, Id, instead of id. Late fee, 2d, instead of Id. Packets, Id for eacii 40z., instead of Ad for each 2oz. up to 21b., and 2d a lb. thereafter. Newspapers, Id for each Boz., instead of i<l per copy. Registration fee, 4d, instead of 3d. Parcels, 6d a lb. for the first 21b., and 3d a lb. thereafter up to 111 b. Fragile fees of 6d and 9d on parcels are doubled. Telegrams are increased to Id a word, with a. minimum of Is, with urgents at double that rate. Night letter telegrams will be charged Is for 24 words. Radio telegrams will be increased from 5d and lOd a word to 6d and lid. The press rate of Is 6<l per 100 words will remain, but a limit of 6000 words will he imposed on press messages for morning papers lodged after 5 p.m. For evening papers the limit after 5 p.m. is fixed at 1000 words, words in excess of those maxima being charged for at the rate of £d each.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 11
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