POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 63, 20 March 1913, Page 7

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES.

Letters ami Latter Cards.— lnland, including Cook Islands, id lor each loz or traction thereof, and £d for each succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United braces, 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 on. or fraction thereof; all other places 2£d for tho first oz. or fraction tueroot, and lid for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Post Cards.—lnland, single, id; reply, Id; all other places, single, Id; reply 2d. Printed Papers (including Books and Magazines, not registered).—Ail places, id per 2oz • Magazines (registered), inland, id for every Boz or fraction thereof. Foreign, jd per 2oz or fraction thereof. One end must be left open. Commercial Papers.— Town (for accounts, etc., only), id for 2ozs, or Id for first loz 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 fransvaa', Id each paper. If uudei Soz sent oy first available route; ovei Soz sent by direct steamer only, un> less specially addressed and paid at rate of Id for first 4oz and id tor each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz and i-d eacl extra 2oz. Pattern and Sample Packets.—lnland, id first 2oz or fraction thereof ; over 2oz as for “all other places.” All »ther places, Id first 4oz, every atiJitionai 2oz or fraction fra. Registration. —2d additional for all places. . i TELEPHONES.

Charges.— it ©xenangss continuously open—Business estabiishment8 f £7 ; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £6. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 to 5 i>.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed-

fi-loney Ordsra. (By Post). —Payable in New Zealand, fov each £5 or fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, 6d; £5, la; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s 6dj ■;l6, 3s; £l7, 3a 6d ; £2O, 4s; maximum, £4O. United Kingdom, British Possessions. Canada, United States, Hawaii, and Germany, 3d for each £1 ir fraction thereof. (By Telegraph).— Within New Zealand, 3d for every £5 >r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee >f Is. Australia, at rate of postal money orders, plus telegraph charge.

TELEGRAPHIC RATES. For 12 words or less, including address I 'and i signatureOrdinary Telegrams, 6d, and id for ja.ch additional word. Urgent Telegrams, la, and Id for !ach additional word. Telegrruns to Oe repeated will be charged hulfatos m addition to the above, CABLE RATES. s. d. Australian States 0 4Jd per word Fiji ... 0 8 „ Norfolk Island ... 0 8 ~ United States 2 4to 2 8 „ Cape Go-lony 2 7 „ United Kingdom 8 0 (Signature and address counted as Dart of message.) STAMP DUTIES. Receipt or Discharge (for £2 or over), Id. Agreement (other than Lease), where the matter thereof is ff the value of £2O or upwards, Is. Lease or Agreement for Lease, where the rent does not exceed £50,.2s 6d; for ©very additional £SO, or part of C6O. 2s. 6d MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at tne Fost Office, Stratford, as under:— for— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.; also Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. Cardiff—Daily. 3.26 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. ISltham—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 8.80 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. tlawera—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 0.80 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Hawke’s Bay—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 8.80 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Hulakamar—Daily, 6 p.m.

Fluiroa—Daily, 6 p.m. Hurimoana —Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, at 6 p.m. Inglewood—Daily, 8-10 a.m,, 2.130 p.m., and 6 p.m. Saponga—Daily, 3.26 p.m. Siore—Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.ra. Kohuratahi—Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, at 6 p.m. Lowgarth—Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 3.26 p.m. ifaitoo—Daily, 3.25 p.m. , Main Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Makabu—Thursday and Saturday, 6 p.m. Midhirst—Daily. 8.10 a.m., 2.80 p.m., and 6 p.m. Vew Plymouth—Dally, 8.10 a.m., J p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m, Tgairo—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.50 a.m.. 2.30 p.m., and 0 p.m. \orman by—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.80 a.m., 2.30 p.ra., and 0 p.m. Palmerston N}rth—Daily, 8.10 ».m.. 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Pohokura—Daily, 6 p.m. Puniwhakau —Tuesdays nd featu. days, 10 a.m.; and Wednesdays, 6 p.m. [lowan —Daily, 3.26 p.m. South Island—Daily, 8.10 a.m., D.BO a.m., and 2,30 p.m. Strathmore —Daily, G p.m. Taiiora—Tuesday, Thursday, Batwrdav, 8 p.m. Tariki—Daily, 8.10 a.m.. 2.80 pun and 6 p.m. Taurakawa—Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m. ; and Wednesday, u p.ui. I’e Wera —Daily, 0 p.m. Toko—Daily, o p.m.; also, Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m. fututawa —Tuesday arid Saturday, 10 a.m.; Wednesday 6 p.m. Wairarapa—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.80 , a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Waitara —Daily, 8.10 a.m., 12.26 p.m., and 8 p.m. Wanganui—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m 2.30 p.m and *5 p.m. Wellington—Daily, 8.10 «.m.. 3.,‘i0 a.m., and 2.30 p.m Whangarnomona—Tuesday Wcalnesday, Tlmrsday, uud Saturday, at (j p.m. O. STAMTO-N. PojrtmaaWr

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