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tied over the ends and round the middle of the letters,
and after being looped wherever it crosses, must be
tied tightly in a fast knot at the back of the letters,
so that the knots may not interfere with the addresses.
Letters containing cash or stamps, passing between
a Chief Postmaster and a subordinate officer, although
entered on the list as registered, are not to be tied
with green tape.

Book Packets.

67. Every packet intended to be transmitted as a
    book packet, must be sent either without a cover, or
    in a cover open at the ends or sides, subject to Regu-
    lation 35.

68. A book packet may contain any number of
    separate books or other publications, prints or maps,
    and any quantity of paper, parchment, or vellum (to
    the exclusion however of letters, whether sealed or
    open); also photographs, but exclusive of glass in
    any form, and the books or other publications, prints,
    maps, &c., may be either written, printed, or plain,
    or any mixture of the three. Further, all legitimate
    binding, mounting, or covering of a book, publication,
    &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.

69. The packet must not contain any letter, closed
    or open, nor any enclosure sealed or otherwise closed
    against inspection; nor must there be any letter, or
    any communication of the nature of a letter, written
    or printed, in any such packet, or on its cover.

70. It will be the duty of every Postmaster from
    time to time to examine packets and newspapers
    open at both ends, sent as exempt from letter post-
    age, and in case he should discover that any such
    packet is not entitled to exemption from letter post-
    age, he is to forward to their destination all such
    packets or newspapers addressed to places within the
    Colony, charged with a double letter postage fee.
    When such packets or newspapers are addressed to
    places beyond the Colony, they must be detained,
    and if applications for their return be made within
    three months by the persons who posted them, they
    may be returned on payment of a double inland rate
    of letter postage, or, in case of no such applications
    being made, they shall be sent to the Dead Letter
    Office.

71. No Postmaster shall be required to receive for
    transmission by any inland or overland mail a book
    packet which, from any reason, may appear calculated
    to retard the carrier, or otherwise to cause inconve-
    nience.

Bankers' Parcels.

72. Bankers' Parcels, containing only bank notes,
    orders, bills, and promissory notes, cheques, pass-
    books, or bank returns, sent by or to any bank or
    banker within the Colony (provided such parcels are
    securely closed and sealed, and contain no letter or
    communication in the nature of a letter, and bear,
    along with the address of such parcel, the words
    "Banker's Parcel without Letter," subscribed by the
    sender of such parcel with his name and address),
    shall be received as book packets, and shall be trans-
    mitted within the Colony at the same rates as Book
    Packets.

Pattern Parcels.

73. Pattern parcels addressed to places within the
    Colony, the United Kingdom, and the Colonies of
    Victoria and New South Wales, and such other places
    as are set forth in the New Zealand Postal Guide, or,
    as may from time to time be notified in the New
    Zealand Gazette, may be sent by post subject to the
    following restrictions :-

I. No packet must exceed 24 ounces in weight.
II. There must be no writing or printing other
than the address of the person for whom the
packet is intended, the address of the sender, a
trade mark and number, and the prices of the
articles.
III. The patterns must be sent in covers open at
the ends, so as to be easy of examination. Sam-
ples, however, of seeds, &c., may be enclosed in
boxes, or in bags of linen or other material,
fastened in such a manner that they may be
readily opened.
IV. The rule which forbids the transmission
through the post of any article which might
injure the contents of the mail bags, or the
officers of the Post Office, is so far relaxed as to
permit the transmission of scissors, knives,
razors, forks, steel pens, nails, keys, watch ma-
chinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore,
and such like as samples, provided they be packed
and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford
complete protection to the contents of the mail
bags and the officers of the Post Office; while
at the same time the patterns may be easily
examined.
V. Any packets not in accordance with the above
regulations will be treated as letters.

Newspapers.

74. Newspapers for transmission within the Colony
    shall be posted in single numbers, so put up that the
    date of publication may be readily seen. Packages
    of newspapers consisting of more than one number
    shall be treated as book packets.

Late Letter Fees.

75. All sea-borne mails to be kept open to within
    one hour of the departure of the mails from the Post
    Office. Every Chief Postmaster shall cause letters
    for the United Kingdom and Australia to be received
    at his office, after the closing of the general mails, to
    be made up into supplementary mails, consisting of
    late letters only, and for each of which an additional
    fee of one shilling over and above the ordinary post-
    age rate, shall be paid in postage stamps affixed to
    the letters; such supplementary mails to be kept
    open until within twenty minutes of the latest period
    of despatch from the office.

76. Late letters for places within the Colony shall
    be received at each Post Office until within twenty
    minutes of the hour of despatch; and for each of
    such late letters an additional fee of sixpence over
    and above the ordinary postage rate shall be paid in
    postage stamps affixed to the letter.

77. On all inter-provincial letters posted in the
    receiving boxes on board the Mail Steamers, the
    above-mentioned late fee of sixpence over and above
    the ordinary postage shall be prepaid in postage
    stamps affixed to the letters, otherwise a double fee
    of one shilling will be charged on delivery.

Private Boxes.

78. Any Postmaster may set apart and allow a
    private box in his Post Office to any person who may
    apply for the same; and such person shall hold such
    box subject to the following rules :-

79. Every private box shall be so arranged that
    access may be had both from the outside and inside
    of the Post Office.

80. The outside end of each box shall be provided
    with a door and lock, and the person to whom such
    box shall be allotted shall be furnished with a key to
    the same; but the lock shall be kept in repair at his
    own expense.

81. All letters received at any Post Office, at which
    private boxes shall have been established, addressed
    to any person to whom a private box has been
    allotted, shall, at the sorting of the mail in which
    such letters arrived, be deposited in such box.