POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1914, Page 6

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Cards.—lnland J (including Cook Islands), Id for each ioz. or fraction thereof, and i 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, Siarn, Sorvia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for each oz. or fraction thereof; all other places 2|d for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and l£d 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).—All places, id per 2oz. Magazines (registered), inland, Jd for every Boz. or miction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. or fraction thereof. One end must he left open. Uommarcial Papers.—Town (for accounts, etc., only) Jd for 2ozs. 3 or id tor first 4oz. and id each succeeding 2oz. Inland, Id for first 40z., and *d for each stieceeding 2oz. A:i other places lOoz. 2id, and id lor every ad- ■ ditional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —Inland, |d first 2oz. or fraction thereof; over 2oz. as for "all other places." Al! other places, Id first 40:',, every additional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration.—2d additional lor all places. Newspapers.—Town and Inland, id each, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id each paper. If under Soz. sont by first available route; over Soz. sent by direct' steamer only; unless specially addressed and paid at rate of Id for first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each under 4oz. and id each extra 2oz. TELEPHONES Charges— At exchanges continuousopen—Business establishments, £7; private residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, ftunedin, Invercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open ill day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery iu Now Zealand, not exceeding—

Money Orders. (By Post).— Pay- I able in Now Zealand, for each £5 or | fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, 6d; £5, | Is; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2a 6d; £ls, 3s; £l7. 3s 6d, £2O, 4s; maximum £4O. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada, United States, Hawaii and Germany, 3d for each £1 or fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)— Within Now Zealand. 3d for every £5 or fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee of Is. Australia, at rate of postal money orders, plus telegraph charge. CABLE RATES.

(Signature and address counted as part of the message). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the i’oat Office, Stratford, as under: — For— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 R.ra.; also, Tuesdays, and Fridays, at 0 p.m. Cardiff—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Eltham—Daily, 8.10 a.in., 0.23 a.n.., 2.30 p.ro. and 6 p.m. Hawera—Daily, 8.10 a.in., 9.50 a.in., 2.30 p.m., and G p.m. Hawke’s Hay -Daily, 8.10 ft.ta., 0.30 a.in., and 2.30 ».m. Huiakama —Daily, 6 p.m. Huiroa—Daily, 6 p.m.

N.Z. Axis U.K. «. d. b. d. 8. d. lib 0 8 0 H 1 0 21b 0 4 J 1 2 1 0 31b 0 6 1 8 1 0 4lb 0 74 2 2 2 e 51b 0 9 2 8 2 0 61b 0 iot 8 2 2 0 71b 1 0 8 8 2 0 5<lb 1 u i 2 S 0 91b 1 8 4 8 3 0 101b 1 41 4 B 8 0 111b 1 fl B 1 a s

s. d. Australian states 0 4$ per word Fiji 0 0 Norfolk Island 0 6 United States 2 4 to 2 3 Capo Colony 9 <u \ United Kingdom 3 0