POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 98, 27 December 1913, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards. —Inland (including Cook Islands), Id for each loz. or fraction thereof, and J fot jack succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom Jritish Possessions, United States Ihili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexio, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago ’ago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam, Servia, and ’ostal Agencies in Chinese 'treat\ ’orts, Id for each oz. or fraction hereof; all other places 2’d for the' rst oz. or fraction thereof, and lid or each succeeding oz. or fraction hereof.

Post Cards.—- Inland, single, id; re >ly, Id; all other places-, single, Id oply 2d. , i •,; 1 ■ • : Printed Papers. (inejuding Boole ml MagaziiiA, not registered).—Ai laces,,!ld ! per ‘2bz. Mii^azines 1 (rogis''fed), inland;-'id 1 for'ev'Cry Boz. bi ■action thereof, i 'Foreign, ijd ,pen2oz. ~j* fraction thereof. One end must be ,i;ft ;Op«jn, ( , 1,0 ! : Commercial Papers. —Town;.(for ac- • hunts',‘fetid., only) id for £ozs,/dr Id n-' lirst»-407.v- and ,id ‘each ‘succeeding ■ nz. laJand/' ld'- fpr first Aozr., 'and id ..-jf•eaefejspflcoedipgf• -2ozAIL other laces,lOoz., ji(]/ ,apd Jd ( ,fpr ,eyory, a,<]iflqhal 2oz. (Open for pnspy,cti,on). , Pattern ( and Maniple .Packets. —lnmd, Jcl first 2oz. or fraction thereof; ver 2oz. as for “all other places.” All Mbher.vplaces; Id-first 4ob, every aditioual 2oz. or fraction Jd. Registration. —2d additional for all olaces. ,

Newspapers.— Town and Inland, Id Wh, United Panda y. /Ceylon,'-/India,’ 1 1 , grange. River. /South .SeaHslandsy <aaid .’rqiLsyaal. -Id qfqch paper.,, If under ’oz. sent by first .available,yputy,; over ■oz. 'sent by direct steamer' only,; un--sss specially* addressed 11 and paid at ate of Td -for first 4oz. and )d for each ncceeding. ,20z,: . All other places Id ach under 4oz. and id each extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. , Charges— At exchanges continuously open—Business establishments, £7 ; nivate residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an qual charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, .Vellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, nvercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palm--rston North,! and Wanganui are open 11 day and all night. The other Ex•hanges chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. ’arcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceeding—

Money Orders. (By Post). —Payble in New Zealand, for each £5 or .action of £5, 3d. Commonwealth, 'iji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, 6d; £5, s; £7, Is 6d£lo, 2s; £l2, 2s Gd ; ;10, 3s; £l7, 3s Gd, £2O, 4s; .maxi-, ■urn £4O. United Kingdom. British 'ossessions, Canada, United States, lawaii and Germany, 3d for each £1 >r fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)— Vithin New Zealand, 3d for every £5 .r fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee 4 Is. Australia, at rate of postal noney orders, plus telegrapll*charge.

CABLE RATES.

(Signature and address counted as >art of the message). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Post (Mice, Stratord, as under:— For— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.; also, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 p.m. Cardiff—Daily, 3.25 p.m. )oug!as—Daily, 6 p.m. (Ithani—Daily, 8,10 a.m., 9.23 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. rlawera—Daily, ,8.10 a.m. a 9.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Hawke’s Bay—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Huiakama—Daily, C p.m. Huiroa—Daily, G p.m. S. G. STANTON, Postmaster.

>* N.Z. Aus ILK. s . (1. s. d. s. d. 11) 0 3 0 8 1 0 ill) 0 4i 1 2 1 0 111) 0 6 I 8 1 0 ah 0 7i 2 2 2 0 ;ib 0 9 2 8 2 0 .lb 0 10i 3 2 2 0 lb 1 0 3 8 2 0 lb 1 u 4 2 3 0 •lb 1 3 4 8 3 0 Olb 1 4J4 8 3 0 Lllb 1 6 ' 5 8 3 0

s. d. Australian states 0 per word 0 6 „ Norfolk Island * . 0 G Jnited States 2 4 to 2 3 Jape Colony 2 7 Tinted Kingdom 3 0