INCREASED TELEGRAPH & POSTAL CHARGES.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 24 September 1915, Page 3

INCREASED TELEGRAPH & POSTAL CHARGES.

Sir, —Will you kindly give publicity to the following announcement of increased telegraph and postal charges which come into force to-day : For ordinary telegrams delivered within the Dominion on week-days, for twelve words, or less, andinclud-. ing address and signature—urgent Is 2d, ordinary Sd : extra words Id and -id each respectively. On Sundays, urgent 2s 2d, ordinary Is 2d, extra words 2d and Id each respectively. Sunday rates will be charged at all offices without exception. The alteration in the rates means an addition of 2d to the rates hitherto charged on week-days and Sundays, and makes the Sunday rate apply at all offices. For cable messages, the charges will be as hitherto, plus twopence for each message. Beginning to-day, an additional postage rate of one halfpenny will be levied on letters, books, parcels aud other postal packets of every kind, except newspapers, posted in Now Zealand for all places either within the Dominion or overseas. Geo. Levy, Relieving Postmaster. P.O. Woodville, Sept, 24th, 1915.