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Amounts to the extent af Fivepence may be made up by affixing
postage
Payment of Postal Orders can also be obtained at Constantinople.
Gibraltar, Hong-Kong, India, Malta, Newfoundland, and Straits
Settlements.
Post Office Savings Banks. — Every Money Order Office, being
a Post Office Savings Bank, receives deposits of One Shilling (or 12
Penny Stamps on an official form), or any number of Pounds and
Shillings from any depositor, provided the sums deposited do not
exceed £50 in any one year, and the total amount standing in the
depositor's name does not exceed £200 inclusive of interest — interest
at the rate of £2 10s per cent, per annum.
Investments in Government Stocks. — Any depositor in a
Savings Bank who desires to Invest a certain sum in Government
Stocks must send to the Controller of the Savings Bank an
application signed by him on a form to be obtained at any Postal
Savings Bank. The sum invested shall not be less than Is, and
shall not exceed £200. The whole amount of Stock credited to any
one account shall not exceed £500 Stock.
TELEGRAMS.
The charge for a Telegram throughout the United Kingdom is
Sixpence for Twelve Woi'ds and under, including the names and
addresses of sender and receiver, and, if exceeding Twelve Words,
One Halfpenny for every additional word. The amount paid for
transmission of a message covers the cost of delivery within three
miles from the terminal officce, or within the town postal delivery
of that office. When the addressee resides beyond the free delivery
porterage is charged at the rate of Threepence per mile or part
thereof, reckoning from the terminal telegraph office.
POST OFFICE TELEPHONE.
Communication by Telephone has been established between the
most important towns in the United Kingdom.
The scale of charges for three minutes conversation is as follows : —
For distances not exceeding 25 miles, ... ... ... 3d.
Exceeding 25 miles and not exceeding 50 miles, ... 6d.
50 „ „ 75 „ ... 9d.
65 „ „ leO „ ... Is.
Every additional 40 miles or frac*;ion thereof, . . . 6d.
When the conversation originates on the system of the Post Office,
and is with a person on the system of the National Telephone