MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 8955, 4 January 1908, Page 5

MAIL NOTICES

Closing at Masterton

For New Plymouth and Auckland, per Manawatu train, daily, 5.30 a.m.

MONDAY, 6th JANUARY,

For New Plymouth and Auckland, also Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, to connect with Atua at Auckland, per Manawatu train, 5.30 a.m.

The next best despatch for Canada and United States of America will leave Wellington by Manawatu train on Tuesday, 21st January, to connect with Hauroto at Auckland. Mails close at Masterton at 5.30 a.m. The following reduced rates of postage come into operation on Ist January -.—Postage: Inland, Id for the first 4oz or fraction thereof, and %d for each succeeding 2oz or fraction thereof. Postcards: Inland, single reply Id; all other places (Postal Union rates), single Id, reply 2d. Magazines (registered): Inland, each copy not exceeding 16oz, Id; every additional 16oz, or fraction thereof, Id; Australia (except Queensland and Westland Austraila) each copy not exceeding 2oz, )^d; if over 2oz to Boz Id, every additional 4oz or fraction thereof, ; Queensland, West Australia, and all other places not otherwise specified, %& for 2oz or fraction thereof. The registration fee on letters has also been reduced from 3d to 2d for all places. The new postal regulations came into force on Ist October. Rates of postage on letters and Letter-cards addressed to places beyond New Zealand are as follows:—To"the United Kingdom, British possessions, and countries named in postal guide, Id for each ounce or fraction thereof, instead of, as formerly, for each half-ounce. To all other places, 2}£d for the first ounce, and for each succeeding ounce or fraction thereof, instead of for each half-ounce or fraction thereof.