POSTAL INFORMATION

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 7 February 1923, Page 7

POSTAL INFORMATION

THE NEW RATES. POSTAGE, TELEGRAPHIC AND TOLL CHARGES. The following is the full schedule: Letters and Letter Cards. Inland: Ijd for first 2oz and Id for each additional 2oz. United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, United States of America, and all other places to which Postal Union rates (minimum 2Jd) do not apply; IJd for first ounce and Id for each additional ounce. Postcards. Inland: Single, Id; reply, 2d. Packets. Comprising commercial papers, (accounts, invoices, etc.), books and printed papers; pattern and sample packets, and unregistered magazines Inland: Id not exceeding 2oz, IJd for exceeding 2oz and not exceeding 4oz; lid for each additional 4oz up to lib, and 2d for each additional pound up to 51b. Newspapers. Inland: Jd each. Inland Telegrams. Week days (other than the public holidays mentioned below) :—Ordinary: 9d for the first 12'words (including address and signature) and Id for each additional word. Urgent: 1/6 for the first 12 words (including address and signature), and 2d for each additional word. Sundays and the following pubHc holidays, viz., New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, King’s Birthday, Labour Day, Christ mas Day, and Boxing Day: Double the rates for week days. Savings Bank Telegrams. Ordinary: 9d. Urgent: 1/6. Inland Mult pie Telegrams. The additional fee for each address after the first shall be: For ordinary telegrams 4Jd, urgent telegrams 9d. Weather Telegrams for Farmers. Telegrams from farmers, addressed ‘‘Weather,” Wellington, seeking information as to the state of the weather shall be charged 1/- for the message and reply. Night Letter Telegrams. The charge for a night-letter telegram shall be 9d for the first 27 words or fraction thereof, and Id for each additional three words or fraction thereof. Telephone Toll Calls.

From 8 a.m. to 9 p.rn.—Up to 20 miles 4d, for every additional five miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles Id, for every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles 2d.

From 9 p.m. to midnight and from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. at exchanges which are open at any time between those hours: —Up to three minutes: For distances up to 40 miles ' 4d, for every additional five miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles Jd, for every additional 10 miles or fraction thereof exeeding 100 miles Id. From midnight to 6 a.m.: —Up to six minutes: For distances up to 40 miles 4d, for every additional five miles or fraction thereof up to 100 miles id, for every additional ' 10 miles or fraction thereof exceeding 100 miles Id.

For every additional minute exceeding three, between 6 a.m., and midnight, and for every additional minute exeeding six between midnight and 6 a.m., the charge shall be one-third of the initial rate. AU fractions of a penny shall be counted when calculating the charge for a communeiation, but fractions smaller than a half ptjnny shall be disregarded in the total. Notes on Toll Charges. The following explanatory notes upon the new telephone charges have been (supplied by the department: — It will be noted that several important concessions have been made in the schedule, the most important being under the following headings: A: Five-mile steps have been introduced instead of the 50-mile step hitherto used. The 50-mile step has been found to work out unfairly in its effects upon a large number of exchanges, but while a smaller number of exchanges is benefit thereby it is considered that the majority of subscribers at the various exchanges will be more equitably treated under the five-mile step. B: The concession of half-rates will commence at 9 p.rn. instead of at 10 p.m. as heretofore. In making this concession it has keen found necessary to adhere to a minimum

charge of 4d for any toll communication. From the above it can be seen that there are more eases of reduced charges being made than increases. In the. readjustments necessary it is inevitable that ireredses must occur in some eases.