New Zealand Gazette – 1902 – No. 54

Page 1433

✨ Postage Regulations

JULY 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1433

With the foregoing exceptions, the postage for commercial papers is—
(a.) Within New Zealand,—
For delivery from any other office than that at which posted, and for town papers exceeding ½oz.
{ Not exceeding 4oz. ... 1d.
{ For every additional 2oz. or fraction thereof ... ½d.
(b.) To all other places... ... ... { For any weight not exceeding 10oz. ... 2½d.
{ For every additional 2oz. or fraction thereof ... ½d.

Definition.

Commercial papers include all papers or documents written or drawn wholly or partly by hand (except letters or communications of the nature of letters, or other papers or documents having the character of an actual and personal correspondence). Any expression in the following table referring to print or printing shall be held to include type-printing, engraving, lithography, or autography, &c., easy to recognise. The expression “writing” shall be held to include type-writing as well as ordinary script.
The following documents, provided they conform to the conditions, are regarded as commercial papers:—

Description of Document.	Conditions.
Acceptances, bills of exchange, invoices, bills of lading (separately or enclosed with invoices), consignees’ advice-notes (marked “consignee”), drafts, promissory notes, orders for goods (sent by commercial travellers), pay-sheets, ships’ manifests, way-bills	Nothing may appear in writing in the documents save dates, the names and addresses of the parties, the particulars and prices of any goods, or the particulars of any sums of money to which the document relates, and the mode of consignment of any such goods or money.
Accounts (received or unreceived), formal receipts, invoices, premium renewal notices	Any other matter shall be wholly in print, and shall relate exclusively to the subject-matter of the document, or the terms on which business is transacted, by the person or firm issuing the document. Only accounts, &c., with printed envelopes for replies if desired, may be enclosed in the same envelope. The words “With thanks” may be added to received accounts, but anything, printed or written, in the nature of a request for payment will subject the account to letter rates of postage.
Demands for rates or calls	Nothing to appear beyond the name of the local body or the company issuing the notice and a demand for the amount due, together with extracts from any Act or Articles of Association fixing penalties for non-payment, &c.
Affidavits, briefs, deeds, depositions, powers of attorney, recognisances, scrip	Nothing to appear in writing or print which does not form part of the document as a legal instrument.
Proposals and policies of insurance and proof of loss, private friends’ and medical reports concerning proposals for insurance, returns of banks, public companies, &c., proxy forms, pass-books, cheque-books, stock-sheets, balance-sheets	The document, as a rule, to consist of a printed form. Any written matter on such document to consist merely of information or statements appropriate to the form and necessary to the completion of the document.
Manuscript for press, manuscript sermons ...	Any written or printed matter not forming part of the document must refer solely to the arrangement of the type. The covers must be marked “Manuscript for press,” &c.
Specifications (with and without plans), examination papers, pupils’ exercises with corrections but without comment thereon, written music	Any written or printed matter not forming part of the document itself must relate exclusively to its subject-matter.
Old or spent letters (packets of) within New Zealand and the Australian States. To other countries they may be posted at letter-rates only.	The letters must clearly have served their original purpose, and must be at least two months old. Diaries are not accepted as commercial papers.

See special regulations affecting bills of lading and consignees’ advice-notes when posted loose on trains and steamers.

(B.) PRINTED PAPERS (INCLUDING BOOKS).

The postage for printed papers, except newspapers, is—
To any place within or beyond New Zealand ... ... { ½d. per 2oz. or fraction thereof.
Copies of Hansard, if enclosed in the authorised wrapper, will be sent free of charge to any place within the colony.

Definition.

Printed papers generally comprise all impressions or copies obtained on paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, autography, or any other mechanical process easy to recognise, except the copying-press or type-writer; anything, not of glass, usually attached or appurtenant to any of the undermentioned articles in the way of binding, mounting, or otherwise; and anything convenient for their safe transmission by post. No writing whatever is allowed on printed papers, except as specified hereafter.

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