JULY 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 987

Address-cards.
Books, stitched or bound.
Cards—
(a.) Birthday, Christmas, Easter, and New Year’s cards, may have written on them complimentary and such-like remarks, together with the names and addresses of the senders, and of the person for whom the cards are intended, also the date of sending. (For example: “To John Smith, with best wishes from Mary Smith, Christmas, 1892.”) But cards having messages or other communications written on them such as “Hoping to see you shortly;” “Write soon,” will be liable to letter rates of postage.
(b.) Cards of invitation, printed. (The name of the person invited, the date, object, and place of the gathering, may be added in manuscript.)
(c.) Visiting cards, printed or engraved. (The address of the sender, his title as well as conventional initials, such as “P.P.C.,” may be added in writing.)
(d.) Travellers’ cards—Name of traveller and date of his visit may be inserted in writing. (Price lists may not be attached to travellers’ cards.)
Catalogues—prices in figures may be inserted in writing.
Circulars, i.e., letters wholly printed, engraved, or lithographed. If produced by any other mechanical process, at least 20 copies must be submitted to the Post Office simultaneously for posting.

Drawings.
Engravings.
Fashion-plates, &c.
Maps.
Music, printed. (Written music, see “Commercial Papers.”)
Notices of all kinds entirely printed, engraved, and lithographed. (In notices of meetings the name of the person invited, the date, place, and object of the meeting may be inserted in writing.)
Paintings.
Photographs.
Pictures.
Papers impressed for the use of the blind, or cardboard drawing-models stamped in relief. (Not admissible, however, as printed papers in Russia or Sweden.)
Plans, without remarks in manuscript.
Prices current, stock and share-lists. (Prices may be filled in in writing.)
Printed matter generally.
Proofs of printing. Manuscript additions and alterations which relate to correction of form and printing may be made to corrected proofs, and, in case of want of space, additions may be made on separate sheets.
Ships’ advices. (The dates of departures of ships may be inserted in manuscript.)
Stamps for prepayment, obliterated or not, can only be forwarded at letter rates or by parcel-post.
Tenders for advertisements. (Figures may be inserted in writing.)
Valentines.

8. Printed papers, of which the text has been modified after printing, either by hand or by means of a mechanical process except as specified herein, or bears any mark whatever of such a kind as to constitute a conventional language, cannot be sent at printed paper rates.

9. As exceptions to the above rule, it is permitted:—
   (a.) To indicate on the outside of the missive, the name, commercial standing, and address of the sender;
   (b.) To indicate or alter in a printed paper, in manuscript or by a mechanical process, the date of despatch, the signature, and the commercial standing or profession, as well as the address of the sender;
   (c.) To correct also errors in printing in printed documents;
   (d.) To erase certain parts of a printed text, in order to render them illegible;
   (e.) To make prominent, by means of marks, passages of the text to which it is desired to draw attention;
   (f.) To insert or correct in manuscript, or by a mechanical process, figures as well as the name of a traveller and date of his visit, in prices current, tenders for advertisements, stock and share lists, and trade circulars;
   (g.) To add a dedication on books, sheets of music, photographs, and engravings, as well as to enclose the invoice relating to any such work;
   (h.) In requisitions sent to libraries (printed and open, and intended as orders for books, newspapers, engravings, pieces of music), to indicate on the back, in manuscript, the works required or offered, and to erase or underline, on the front, the whole or part of the printed communications;
   (k.) To paint fashion-plates, maps, &c.

10. Additions made in manuscript, or by means of a mechanical process, which would deprive a printed paper of its general character and give it that of individual correspondence, are forbidden, except as provided in the next section, No. 11.

11. 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.

12. 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 papers.”

Definition of printed papers.

Certain writing allowed on printed papers.

Additions in manuscript not permitted.

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

Address cards and unfolded cards.