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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

(g.) Annotations or corrections made upon proofs of printing or musical compositions, and relating to the text and the making-up of the work.

Notices from friendly and masonic societies may pass as “printed papers” within the colony.

10. Circular notices issued by the authorities of friendly and masonic societies to the members thereof, and differing from each other only in the name of the addressee and the amount due, but being otherwise in identical terms, may pass at the rate for “printed papers” within the colony.

Address cards and unfolded cards.

11. Address cards and all printed matter of the form and substance of an unfolded card may be forwarded without wrapper, envelope, fastening, or fold. Cards bearing the inscription of post-cards are not allowed to go at the rate for “printed matter.”

GENERAL BOOK-POST REGULATIONS,
APPLYING TO BOTH “PRINTED PAPERS” AND “COMMERCIAL PAPERS.”

Book-packets must be open at one or both ends, but may be tied with string easy to unfasten.

12. A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened, whether by means of gum, wafer, sealing-wax, postage-stamp, or otherwise) or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination. For the greater security of the contents, however, it may be tied at the ends with string, but the string must be easy to unfasten.

Limits of dimensions and weight.

13. The limits of size for book-packets are—length 18in., width or depth 1ft. The weight must not exceed 4lb. 6oz. (2 kilogrammes).

Insufficiently prepaid book-packets.

14. Book-packets not prepaid one single rate, if addressed to countries beyond New Zealand, are detained, advertised for one month on a list exhibited at the office of posting, and, if not paid in the meantime, they are sent to the Dead Letter Office. Insufficiently-prepaid and wholly-unpaid packets for delivery within the colony, and such as are addressed to places beyond the colony and prepaid one single rate, are sent to destination, but will be charged double the deficiency, at prepaid rate, on delivery.

If commercial papers are enclosed with printed papers the rates for commercial papers must be paid.

15. If “commercial papers” are enclosed with “printed papers” the rates for “commercial papers” must be paid.

Treatment of irregularly-posted book-packets.

16. “Commercial papers” and “printed papers” bearing or containing writing other than that authorized, or such as may be closed against inspection, or contain enclosures not authorized by the foregoing rules, if addressed to any place within the colony, are sent to destination surcharged simple letter rate, minus the postage already prepaid; if addressed to any place beyond New Zealand they are detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office for disposal.

Re-direction of printed papers and commercial papers free.

17. “Printed” and “commercial papers” may be re-directed free of charge on the same conditions as ordinary letters.

PATTERNS AND SAMPLES.

Rates of postage.

1. The rates of postage for patterns and samples are—
   For all places within and beyond New Zealand
   { For each packet not exceeding 4oz. ... 1d.
   For each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof ... ½d.

Definition of patterns and samples.

2. The pattern and sample post to countries beyond New Zealand is restricted to bona fide trade patterns or samples of merchandise, and such patterns or samples must possess no saleable value.

Must not possess any saleable value.

Samples of eider-down, raw or thread silk, woollen or goats’ hair, thread, vanilla, or isinglass are deemed inadmissible if they weigh more than 3oz.

Packets not bona fide samples and patterns may be sent by sample post within the colony.

3. Packets not bona fide samples or patterns may be sent by parcel-post to any of the countries enumerated at pages 88, 90, and 92 of the Postal Guide. Such packets may, however, be sent at the sample-post rates to any place within the colony.

How patterns and samples should be packed.

4. Patterns or samples, when practicable, must be sent in covers open at the end, and in such manner as to be easy of examination; but samples of seeds, drugs, and such like articles, which cannot be sent in covers of this kind, may be posted enclosed in boxes or in bags of linen, or other material, fastened in such a manner that they may be readily opened.

The only writing allowed on pattern- and sample-packets.

5. Patterns and samples must not bear any writing, except the name and address of the sender, the address of the addressee, a manufacturer’s trade-mark, numbers, prices, and indications relative to weight or size, or to the quantity to be disposed of.

Dangerous and prohibited articles.

6. Such articles as scissors, knives, razors, forks, steel-pens, nails, keys, watch-machinery, metal tubing, pieces of metal or ore, provided that they be packed and guarded in so secure a manner as to afford complete protection to the contents of the mail-bags and to the officers of the Post Office, while at the same time they may be easily examined, may be forwarded as samples. Liquids, glass, anything of a greasy nature, explosives, indigo, and colouring or other powders likely to damage the correspondence are absolutely prohibited.

Dimensions and weight.

7. Packets addressed to places within the colony, for the United Kingdom, India, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia, must not exceed 2ft. in length, or 1ft. in width and depth and 5lb. in weight,