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68 POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Postal Order business 9 a.m. till 9 p.m., and for Money Order, Savings Bank,
Life Insurance, and Annuity business from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m. On Sunday the
Office is open for Postal business from 9 till 10 a.m., and from 1 till 2 p.m.
For Telegraph business there is attendance continuously during day and
night both on Week days and Sundays, entrance after 9 p.m., first and second
door in Shiprow.
Holidays. — New Year's Day, first Monday in May, and fourth Monday in
September. On these days the Office will be open throughout the day for Tele-
graph Business, Delivery of Poste Restante Letters, Registration of Letters,
and Sale of Stamps, but not for Money Order, Savings Bank, Insurance or
Annuity, Postal Order, or Parcel Post Business.
Rates of Postage and Conditions of Transmission.
LETTERS— /Inland).
The rates of Postage when prepaid are as follows : —
For a letter not above 1 oz Id.
Do. above 1 oz. , but not above 2 oz l|d.
Do. do. 2 oz. , do. 4 oz 2d.
And so on by ^d. for every additional 2 oz.
A letter posted unpaid is chargeable on delivery with double postage ; if
insufficiently paid, with double the deficiency.
No letter may exceed IS inches in length, 9 in width, or 6 in depth, unless
it be sent to or from a Government office.
If the stamps affixed to letters are mutilated or defaced, the letters will be
liable to the unpaid rates.
Payment of postage cannot be made by means of imperfect postage stamps,
or of embossed or impressed stamps cut out from envelopes, cards,
wrappers, or telegraph message-forms, even although the stamps have not
been before used.
Re-directed letters are charged an additional postage for each re-direction,
according to the prepaid scale.
All persons sending letters by the post unpaid, which, from any cause
whatever, cannot be delivered to the parties to whom they are addressed, are
liable to pay the postage charged thereon, which may be recovered, with
costs, by summary proceedings before a magistrate.
NEWSPAPE RS— (Inland).
Inland Newspapers are subject to the following regulations : —
To have the privilege of passing as a newspaper, the publication must first
have been accepted as a Newspaper by the Postmaster-General.and
have been placed on a register at the General Post-Office, from which
it is liable to be removed, either through the non-renewal of the regis-
tration fee, 5s., year by year, or in consequence of any change which
may deprive it of the characteristics of a Newspaper. Registration for
inland circulation includes registration for transmission abroad.
For each inland newspaper, whether posted singly or in a packet, the
postage, when prepaid, is one halfpenny ; but a packet containing two
or more registered newspapers is not chargeable with a higher rate of
postage than would be chargeable on a book packet of the same weight,
viz., one halfpenny for every 2 oz., or fraction of 2 oz.
A newspaper posted unpaid, or a packet of newspapers posted either unpaid
or insufficiently paid, is treated as an unpaid or insufficiently paid
book packet of the same weight.
The postage must be prepaid either by an adhesive stamp or by the use of a
stamped wrapper.