POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 10, 10 January 1913, Page 8

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards.— lnland, including Cook Islands, id for each 4oz or fraction thereof, and id for each succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam, Servia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2id for the first oz. or fraction tnereof, and Ijd for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof. Post Cards. —lnland, single, id; reply, Id; ail other places, single, Id; reply 2d. Printed Papers (fuemdiug Books and Magazines, not registered).—All places, id per 2oz • Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz or fraction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz or fraction thereof. One end must be left open. Commercial Papers —Town (for accounts, etc., only), id per ioz., or Id for first 4oz and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland, Id for first 4oz, and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz 2id, and Jd for every additional 2oz (Open for inspection). Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id each. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal. Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvao l , Id each paper. If unde, Soz sent oy first available route; ovei Soz sent by direct steamer only. unless specially addressed and paid a 1 rate of Id for first 4oz and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz and id eacl extra 2oz Pattern and Sample Packets. —Inland, id first 2oz or fracthn thereof: over 2oz as for “all other places.” Ah other places. Id first 4oz, every ad ditional 2oz or fraction io Registration. —2d additional for al places. PARCEL POST, Parcels posted in the Dominion for de livery in New Zealand, not exceed

Money Orders. (By Post). —Payable in New Zealand, for each £5 or fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth. Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2. Cd; £5, Is; £7, Is Gd; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s Gd; 01/5, 3s; £l7, 3s 6d; £2O, 4s; maximum, £4O. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada, United States. Hawaii, and Germany, 3d for each £1 >r fraction thereof. (By Telegraph).— Within New Zealand, 3d for every £5 i r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee of Is. Australia, at rate of postal money orders, plus telegraph charge. TELEPHONES. Charges.-' it exchanges continuously open—Business establishments, £7 ; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an • •qual charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open ill day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 to 5 p.m. TELECRAPHiC RATES. For 12 words or less, including address and signature— Ordinary Telegrams, Gd, and id for each additional word. Urgent Telegrams, Is, and Id foi ■ach additional word. Telegrams tr he repeated will be charged halfrates in addition to the above. CABLE RATES. 9. d. Australian States 0 4id per word Fiji 0 8 Norfolk Island ... 0 3 ~ United States 2 4to 2 8 „

Tape Colony 2 7 ~ ’ nited Kingdom 3 0 (Signature and address counted as part of message.) STAMP DUTIES.

Receipt or Discharge (for £2 oi over), Id. Agreement (other than Lease), where the matter thereof is if the value of £2O or upwards, Is. Lease or Agreement for Lease, where the rent does not exceed £SO, 2s 6d; for every additional £SO, or part ol £SO. 2a. 6d. MAIL .NOTICES. Mails close at the Post Oihce, jtratxord, as under : j or- - Auckland—Daily 2 8.10 a.m.; also Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fn days, at 6 p.m. Cardiff—Daily. 3.26 p.m. Uouglas—Daily, 6 p.m, ' Fitiiam—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 3.30 a.m. 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. dawera—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 3.30 a.m. | 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. , dawke’s Day—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 3.3C1 a.m., aud 2.30 p.m. duiakama—Daily, 6 p.m. iluiroa—Daily, 6 p.m. I Hurimoana—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 0 p.m. Inglewood—Daily, 8,10 a.m., 2.3 u p.m., and li p m. Kaponga—-Daily, 3.25 p.m. Kiore—Monday, Wednesday, and Fri day, 6 p.m. Kohuratahi—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 6 p.m. Lowgarth—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.25 p.m. Malice—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Main Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m,, and 2.30 p.m. Makahu- -Thursday and Saturday, 6

p.m. Midhirst—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. New Plymouth—Dally, 8.10 a.m., 1 p.m,, 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m, Ngaire—Daily, 8.10 a.m,, 9.30 a.m 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Norrnanby—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Palmerston N n th—Daily, 8.10 a.m. 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Pohokura —Tuesday, Thursday, ano Saturday, h p.m. Puuiwhakau—Tuesdays nd Satu. days, 10 a.m. ; and Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Rowan—Daily, 3.25 p.m. South Island—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.80 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Strathmore—Daily, 6 p.m. Tahora—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 6 p.m. Tariki—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.m raurakawa—Tuesday and Saturday, !0 a.m. Te Wera—Daily, 6 p.m. Toko—Daily, (j p.m,; also, Tuesday| and Saturday, 10 a.m. Tututawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m. ; Wednesday 6 p.m. Wairarapa—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 930 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Waitara—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 2.30 p m., and 6 p.rn. Wanganui—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.p. 2.30 p.m anc' 3 p.m Wellington—Dailv, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. W h a n ga rn ora on a—Tuesday, T h ursday. and Saturday, 0 p.m. ft. U. STiVTON. Pontrrasietr.

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