POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 21, 25 September 1913, Page 8

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards.—. Aland, including Cook Islands. Id for each loz or fraction thereof, and to for each succeeding "2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United State*, Jhili, Costa, Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexio, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago 'ago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuu&se Colonies. Siam. Rervia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction woof; aii other placer 2id tor taa rst oz. or fraction tnereof, and iid ir each succeeding oa. or fraction aereof. Post Cards Inland, single, Id :wv aly. Id: all other places, eingla, Id: reply 2d. '‘■rintod Papmr* {: .minding Books rnd Magazines, not registered),- All daces, J(i jyer 2oz • Magazines (registered), inland, |d for every Boz or fraction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz loft open. CommeroJk! pajura.'- —(for re counts, etc., only), id for 2ozs' or Id for first 4oz and id each 'succeeding 2oz. Inland, Id for first 4pz, and Id for each succeeding 2oss All other olaces lOoz 2jd, and id for every aulitional 2oz (Open for inspection i. Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id mch. United Kingdom, Australia, Calada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal. Range River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If unde* ■ V.z sent Ay first available route; ovei loz sout by direct steamer only, miess specially addressed and pair! at •<te of Id for first 4oz and id for each ■ conceding £ 2oz. All other places Id mch under 4oz and }d eacf extra 2oz. Pattern and Sample Packets—lnand, id first 2oz or fraction thereof: iver 2oz as for “all other places.” All 'thor places, Id first 4oz, every adlitioual 2oz or fraction id Registration.—2d additional for all daces. TELEPHONES. CtiargSß. At exenanges contir.uons'y open—Business establishments, £7; irivato residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously often, an ■qua! charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland. Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, nvercargill, Napier. Hastings. Pnim■rston North, and Wanganui ere open ill day and all night. The other Exhanges cbLflv from 9 to 5 j?.ra. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in Now Zealand, uot exceeding—- _ >r fraction thereof. One end must he

Money Orders, (By Post). —P aylb le in New Zealand, for each £5 or faction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth, fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, 6d; £5, s; £7, Is 6d; £lO 2s; £li, 2s 6d; £ls, 3s; £l7, 3g 6d ; £2G. 4s; maxi* cum, £4O. United Kingdom, British 'oasessions. Canada, Ui 'ier\ States, lawaii. and Germany. 3d *«.- each £1 >r fraction thereof. (By Teiegraph;.— Within New Zealand, 3d for every £5 ■r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee >f Is. Australia, at rate ,d postal uouey orders, plus telegraph charge. TELEGRAPHIC RATES. ‘’or 12 words or less, including address and signature— Ordinary Telegrams, (id. and id for ich additional word. . Urgent Telegrams, Is, and Id for aoh additional won 1 Telegrams to >e repeated will bo charged halfales in addition to the aixive, . CABLE KATES,

(Signature and address counted *f. Start of tnensaee.) 6TAMP ( DUTIES, lleceipt or Discharge (for £2 or 'er), Id. Agreement (other than rase), where the matter thereof is <’ the value of £2O or upwards, Ib, sase or Agreement for Lease, where >e rent does not exceed rSO, 2b fid; ir every additional £SO, or part of 50. 2s. 60 MfcfL WOTiCEfc. Mails close at the Poet Office, bratford, as under:— or—

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