POSTAL INFORMATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 44, 17 September 1918, Page 2

POSTAL I NFORMATION.

POSTAL RATES Letters ai-id Letter Cards.—inland including Cook Islands), Id for eacn loz. or I faction thereof, and id foi each succeeding 2oz, United Kingdom, British possession. United States, Chili, Costa Rica, Egypt, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Peru, Pago Pago. Paraguay, and Portuguese Colonies Siam, Sends, and Postal Agencies in Chinese Treaty Ports, Id for eaCj oz. or fraction ■ thereof; all other places 2id for the first oz. or fraction thereof, and lid for each suceeding oz. or fraction thereof. Including War Tax id additional. Post Cards.—lnland, single Id ; all other- places, single lid. Printed Papers {including Books and Magazines, not registered).—All places Id per 2oz. Magazines (regis teredV, inland, id for every Boz. or 1 fraction thereof. Foreign, Ri per 2oz or fracton thereof. One end must he I left open. Including War Tax id ad- ; ditioual. | Commercial Papers Town (for accounts, etc., only) 1 for 2ozs, or lid [or first 40z., and id each succeeding | 2oz. Inland, lid or first 40z., and id 1 for each succeeding 2oz. All other places lOoz. /id and id for every additional 2oz (Open for inspection). Pattern and Sample Packets.—ln land, Id first 2oz. or fraction thereof: over 2oz. as for “all other places.” All other places lid first 40z., every additional 2oz. or fraction id. Registration.—2d additional for all places. War Tax.—id additional, is included in all the above. Newspapers.—Town and Inland, id each, United Kingdom! Australia, Can ada, Ceylon, India, Jamaica, Natal, Orange River. South Sea Islands, and Transvaal Id each paper. If under Hoz. sent by first available route; over Buz. sent by direct steamer only; unless specially addressed and paid at rate of Id for first loz, and id for each succeeding 2bz. All other places Id euoh under loz. and Jd each extra 2oz. TELEPHONES. Telephone Exchanges at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch. Jhinedin, luveeargill, Napier. Hastings, Palmerston North, and V anganui are open all day and all night. The other Exchanges chiefly from 9 a.m. and 5 p.m money orders, plus telegraph charge annual charge of £6. Charges.—At Exchange continuous ly open—-Business establishments, £7, private residences £5 per annum. Exchanges not continuously open, £5 per auuum. PARCEL POST. Parcels posted in the Dominion for delivery in New Zealand, not exceed-

ing— N.Z. Aub, TJ.K. b. d. 8. d. B. (J. lib 0 3 0 8 1 0 21b 0 H 1 2 1 0 31b 0 6 1 8 1 0