New Zealand Gazette – 1902 – No. 54

Page 1431

✨ Post Office Regulations

JULY 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1431

GENERAL REGULATIONS.
LETTERS AND LETTER-CARDS.*

The prepaid rates of postage on letters and letter-cards posted in New Zealand are—
Inland, and to the following places .. 1d. for each ½oz. or fraction thereof.

Aden
Akassa
Amoy (British Postal Agency)
Antigua (Leeward Islands)
Asaba
Ascension
Australia

Bahama Islands
Barbados
Benin
Bermudas.
Bonny
Borgu
Brass
British Central Africa Protectorate
British East Africa Protectorate
British Guiana
British Honduras
British North Borneo
British Postal Agencies in China—
Amoy
Canton
Foochow
Hankow
Hoihow
Liu Kung Tau
Ningpo
Shanghai
Swatow
Burutu

Calabar (New and Old)
Canada
Canton (British Postal Agency)
Cape Colony
Ceylon
Chili
Costa Rica
Cyprus

Dominica (Leeward Islands)
Ducie Island

Easter Island
Egypt

Falkland Islands
Fiji
Foochow (British Postal Agency)
Forcados or Warree

Gambia
Gibraltar
Gold Coast
Grenada (Windward Islands)
Grenadines (Windward Islds.)

Hankow (British Postal Agency)
Hoihow (British Postal Agency)
Hongkong

Idda
India
Italy

Jamaica
Johore

Labuan
Lagos
Lakoja
Leeward Islands—
Antigua
Dominica
Montserrat
Nevis
St. Kitt's
Virgin Islands
Liberia
Liu Kung Tau (British Postal Agency)

Malay States (Protected)—
Negri-Sembilan
Pahang
Perak
Selangor
Malta
Mauritius
Mexico
Montserrat (Leeward Islands)

Natal
Negri-Sembilan
Nevis (Leeward Islands)
Newfoundland
New Hebrides
Nicaragua
Niger Territory (including Borgu, Idda, and Lakoja)
Niger Coast Protectorate (including Akassa, Asaba, Benin, Bonny, Brass, Burutu, Calabar (New and Old), Onitsha, Opobo, and Warree or Forcados)

Ningpo (British Postal Agency)
Norfolk Island

Onitsha
Opobo
Orange River Colony

Pahang
Paraguay
Perak
Peru
Pitcairn Island
Portugal
Portuguese Colonies

St. Helena
St. Kitt's (Leeward Islands)
St. Lucia (Windward Islands)
St. Vincent (Windward Islands)
Sarawak
Selangor
Servia
Seychelles
Shanghai (British Postal Agency)
Sierra Leone
Siam
Society Islands
Solomon Islands
Straits Settlements
Swatow (British Postal Agency)
Switzerland

Tobago
Tonga
Transvaal
Trinidad
Turks Islands

Uganda
United Kingdom

Virgin Islands (Leeward Islands)

Warree or Forcados
Windward Islands—
Grenada
Grenadines
St. Lucia
St. Vincent

Zanzibar

All other places .. .. .. 2½d. for each ½oz. or fraction thereof.

Letters not fully prepaid or posted wholly unpaid are charged double the deficiency at the prepaid rate on delivery.
No letter should exceed 2ft. in length or 1ft. in width or depth.
Coin, bank-notes, or other paper-money, cheques, &c., can be sent by letter-post only. All letters containing coin, bank-notes, or jewellery must be registered.

Late-fee Letters, &c.

Late-fee letters must be paid 1d. in addition to the ordinary postage. Such letters may, as a general rule, be posted at the post-office up to twenty minutes of the time the mail leaves the office, and in the railway travelling post-offices, guards’ vans, and on board steamers up to the time of departure of train or steamer. Late-fee letters or commercial papers posted on board trains and steamers without the fee will be charged the late-fee on delivery. A concession is, however, made in respect to letters, &c., posted on trains while at a flag-station or railway-siding at a place where there is no post-office. On letters, &c., so posted, no late-fee is charged if the words “Posted at [Name of flag-station or siding]” are written or printed on the address side of the letter.

Consignees’ Letters and Loose Letters.

Consignees’ letters are letters in closed covers concerning goods, and sent at the same time as the goods. They must be marked “Consignee’s Letter.” They are not liable to the late-fee if for delivery within the colony. Loose letters are letters other

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1902, No 54

The Old Government Buildings (depicted) were completed in 1876 and initially housed the entire Wellington-based civil service as well as the entire New Zealand Cabinet. The Executive Council met there until 1948.

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🚂 Post Office Regulations and Rates of Postage (continued from previous page)

Domain🚂 Transport & Communications
Dated30 June 1902
KeywordsPostage Rates, Letters, Letter-cards, International Mail, Inland Mail, Postal Services

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