POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 97, 17 April 1914, Page 3

POSTAL INFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES. Letters and Letter Ca/sSs.—lniano (including Cook Islands). Id for each 4oz. or fraction thereof, and \ fc: each succeeding 2oa. United Kingdom British Possessions, United States Chili, Costa Ilica. Egypt, Italy, Mexi co, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pagt Pago, Paraguay, Portugal, and Portn guese Colonies, Slain', Servia, Postal Agencies in Chinas.* Treat-} Ports, Id for each ok. or fraction thereof; all other places .2^d for the first os. or fraction thereof, and !s>• for each succeeding ez. or fractior. thereof. Post Card!.-—lnland, single, Jd; re ply, Id; all other places, single, Id. reply 2d. PrJntod Pafjers (including BooVand Magazines, not registered).—All places, Id per 2oa. Magazines (regiß tared), inland, for ovary Sob. or fraction thereof. Foreign, id per 2o:'. or fraction thereof. One end must be lift open. CcrniKeroia! Psners.—Town (for accounts, etc., only) $d for 2ozs., or id for first 4oz. aud $d eMJi succeeding i!oz. Inland, Id for first loz., ar.d $d for each succeeding 202 i. All < other places lOoz. 2*d, aud for wer? additional 2oz. (Open for inspection). Pattern and SasnpSe Paokets.—lnland, id first 2oz. or fraction thereof; aver 2oz. as for "all other places." Al! jther places, Id first 4oz, every adlitional 2oa. or fraction >}d. Registration.—3d additional for all places. Newspapers.—Town and inland, \ii lachj United Kingdom, Australia, Canida, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal. Orange River, South Sea Islands, and Transvaal, Id etich paper. If under Sok. sent by first available route; over •soz. sent by direct- steamer' only; un■ess specially addressed and paid at ■ate of Id for first 4oa. find Jd for each succeeding 2055. All other places Id ;ach under 4oz. and Jd ■each extra 2os.

TELEPHONES. Charge's—At exchanges continuousopen—Business establishments, £7 ; priv'ato residences,' £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, an equal charge of £5. Telephone Exchanges fit Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, tnvercargill, Napier, Hastings, Palmerston North, and Wanganui are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chieily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceeding—

Money Orders. (By Pes!.).— Pay able in New Zealand, for each £o oi fraction of £5, 3d. Commonwealth, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga, £2, (xl; £5, Is ; £7, Is Od ; £lO, ,2a ; £l2 2s Cd; £ls, 3s; £l7, 3r6d, £2O, 4a; maximum £4O. United Kingdom, Britipb Possessions, Canada, United States, Hawaii and Germany, od for each £} or fraction thereof. (By Telegraph)--Within New Zealand. 3d for every £5 or fraction of £5, and a telegraph fee a Is, Australia, at rate of postal money orders, plus telegraph ch&rge. &ABLGE RATES. I. d. Australian stated 0 4% par word Fiji 0 € „ Norfolk Island 0 8 United States 3 i to 2 S •"■ Cape Colony 2 7 s ' United Kingdom 3 0 " (Signature and address counted as part of the nioasage). MAIL NOTICES. Mails close at the Pcsi Office, Ste** c o.rd, as under:— For— Auckland—Daily, 8.10 a.m.; also Tuesdays, and Fridays, at 6 p.m. Cardiff—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Douglas—Daily, 6 p.m. Eltham—Daily, 8.10 *,.m.„ 8.28 a.m., 2.80 p.m. and 6 p.m. Hawera— Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.50 a.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Kawke's Bay-—Daily, 8.10 a.m., UM a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Huiakama—Daily, 6 p.m. Ruiroa—Daily, 6 p.m. Hurimoana—Tuesday, Wednesday, wv Saturday, at 6 p.m.; also Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m. Inglewqod—Daily, 8.10a.m., 2.80 p.m. : and 6 p.m. Kaponga—Daily, 3.25 p.m. Kioro—Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 p.m. Kohuratahi—Tuesday, Wednesday, %no Saturday, 6 p.m.; also Tuesdays and Saturdays 9 a.m. Lowgarth—Tuesds v, Thursday, am' 1 Saturday, 3.25 p.m. Mahoe—Daily, 3.25 o.m. Main Trunk—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.8( a.m., and 2.30 p.m. Makahu—Tuesday, Thursday and Bti urday, 8 p.m . Midhirst—Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.80 p.m., and 6 p.m. Vew Plymouth—Daily, 8.10 a.m. 12.15 p.m., 2.30 p.m., and 6 p.m. Ngaire--Daily, 8.10 a.m., 9.30 a.m., ' 2.30 p.m.*, and 6 p.nu

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