New Zealand Gazette – 1863 – No. 9

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✨ Postal Rate Details

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The above postage must be accounted for to this Department.
The postage upon these Letters may be paid in advance, or it may be left to be paid on
delivery of the Letters, at the option of the sender, but unpaid Letters will be liable to an
increased charge on delivery.

Letters addressed to any of the Countries enumerated above may be registered, if the
writers desire it; but upon all such Letters the postage must be paid in advance. In addition
to the postage due to this Office and to half the fee chargeable for registration between
Land the United Kingdom, a Foreign registration fee of
sixpence must be accounted for to this Office. And upon Registered Letters for Russia and
Poland, a further registration fee of fourpence per half-ounce, in addition, must be collected
and accounted for to this Office.

Newspapers and Printed Papers of every kind may also be forwarded to Germany, and to
the following States through Germany, at the undermentioned rates, viz. :—

Destination.	Not exceeding 2 ozs. in weight.	Exceeding 2 ozs. and not exceeding 4 ozs.	Exceeding 4 ozs. and not exceeding 8 ozs.	Exceeding 8 ozs. and not exceeding 1 lb.	Exceeding 1 lb. and not exceeding 1½ lb.	Every succeeding 8 ozs.
	s.	d.	s.	d.	s.	d.
German States Denmark....... Norway Sweden Russia... Poland Heligoland	0	3	0	6	1	0

The rates set forth in the above Table are to be accounted for to this Office, and must be
levied independently of any Colonial rate to which the Newspapers and other Printed Papers
referred to are liable. Under the term "Printed Papers," are comprehended Books or other
Publications, Photographs, Prints, or Maps, printed, engraved, or lithographed, and whether on
paper, parchment, or vellum. Further, all legitimate binding, mounting, or covering of a Book,
Publications, &c., or of a portion thereof, will be allowed, whether such binding, &c., be loose
or attached; as also Rollers, in the case of Prints or Maps, Markers (whether of paper or
otherwise), in the case of Books, and, in short, whatever is necessary for the safe transmission
of literary or artistic matter, or usually appertains thereto; but no patterns or book of patterns
(unless these consist merely of paper) can be allowed.

The regulations, with respect to the transmission of Printed Papers, will be as follows:—

Every Packet must be sent without a cover, or with a cover open at the ends or sides.
There must be no enclosure, except Newspapers or other Printed Papers.
There must be no other writing or marks upon the Newspapers, or Printed Papers,
than the name and address of the person to whom they are sent; nor anything upon
the Cover but such name and address, the printed title of the Papers, and the printed
name and address of the Publisher or the Vendor who sends them.
No Packet must exceed two feet in length, width, or depth, or three pounds in weight.

I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
W. PARKHURST.

P.S.-Upon Letters, Newspapers, &c., for any of the above-named Countries, forwarded
in the mails for the United Kingdom sent viâ Marseilles, you will of course collect, in addition,
the usual French transit rates of postage.

The Postmaster-General,
Auckland.

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