POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters ant! Letter Cards. —Inland (including Cook Islands), Id for each 4oz. or fraction thereof, and j for each succeeding 2oz. United Kingdom, British Possessions, United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Page Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portuguese Colonies, Siam, Scrvia, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Ttm-.h Ports, Id for each. oz. or mu-lion thereof; all other places 2id for d ;, ‘ first oz. or fraction thereof, and lit for each succeeding oz. or fraction thereof.

Pest Cards.—lnland, single, *d ; rely, id; all other places, single, Id; •'ply 2d. Printed Papers (including Books id Magazines, not registered).-—All daces, id per 2oz. Magazines (mgisfered), inland, id for every Boz. t' r faction thereof. Foreign, id per 2oz. sr fraction thereof. One end must be ■eft open. Commercial Papers. —Town {for ao -aunts, etc., only) id for 2ozs., or_Jd or first 4oz. and id each succeeding foz. Inland, Id for first 40z., and id 'or each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. 2id, and id for every adlitional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets. —Inland, id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; over 2oz. as for “all other places.” All other places, Id first 4oz, every adi'tional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration.—2d additional for all daces. Newspapers. —Town and Inland, id ‘fich, United Kingdom, Australia, Canida, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, Orange River, South Sea Islands, end Transvaal, Id each paper. If under doz. sent by first available route; over doz. sent by direct- steamer only; mi'ess specially addressed and paid at rate of Id for first 4oz. and id for each succeeding 2oz. All other places Id each 4oz. and id extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. Charges —At exchanges continuonsopon—Business establishments, £7 ; orivate residences, £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. 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 a.m. to 5 p.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceeding—-

Money Crtirrs. (By I!ost).—Bayable in New Zealand, for each £5 or fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth. Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, Gd; £D is; £7, Is 6d; £lO, 2s; £l2, 2s fid , £ls, 3s; £l7, 3a fid, £2O, 4s; mux: muni £-50. United Kingdom, British Possessions, Canada, United States, Hawaii and Germany, Sd for each £1 or fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)— Within New Zealand. 3d for every £5 or fraction of £5, and a telegraph foe of Is. Australia, at rate of postal money orders, pins telegraph charge. GABLE HAVES.

(Signature and address counted a* part of the message). NOTICES, Mails close at the Post Otllco, Stratford, as under:— For— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.; also, Tuesdays, and Fridays, at G p.m. Cardiff—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Eltham—Daily, 8.10 a.in., 9.23 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Hawern—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 5.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Hawke’s Bay : —Daily, 8.1.0 a.m., 9.30 a.m., and 2 30 o.m. Fluiakama—Daily, 6 p ra, Huiroa—Daily, 6 p.m.

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