July 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1435

11. The expressions referring to printing include any species of type-printing, engraving, lithography, autography, &c., easy to recognise.

When Writing is permitted.

12. 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 which bear any mark whatever of such a kind as to constitute a conventional language, cannot be sent at printed-paper rates.

13. As exceptions to the above rule, it is permitted—
    (a.) To indicate on the outside of the paper 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 errors in printing in printed documents;
    (d.) To mark through 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.) In forms of order or subscription for books, newspapers, engravings, pieces of music, to indicate in manuscript the works required or offered, and to erase or underline the whole or part of the printed communications;
    (g.) To paint fashion-plates, maps, &c.

14. 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 or communication, are forbidden.

GENERAL BOOK-POST REGULATIONS.

APPLYING TO BOTH “PRINTED PAPERS” AND “COMMERCIAL PAPERS.”

How to Pack.

15. A book-packet may be posted either without a cover (in which case it must not be fastened in any way) or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination. If an envelope be used, it must be entirely open at one end, or the flap turned inside. Small slits cut in the ends of closed envelopes are not regarded as leaving a packet open for inspection. 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. Packets containing bank pass-books are allowed to pass at printed-paper rates if the covers are sufficiently open at the ends to enable the pass-books to be identified as such.

16. Address-cards and all printed matter of the form and substance of an unfolded card may be forwarded without wrapper, envelope, fastening, or fold. The face is reserved for the postage-stamps, indications relative to the Postal Service, and the address. The sender is permitted to indicate there his name, profession, and address, by means of a stamp, autograph stamp, or any other typographical process. Requisitions to libraries may bear the printed words “Library Order” (or Requisition).

Limits of Size and Weight.

17. The limits of size for book-packets are 18in. in any direction. If made up in the form of a roll, a packet may measure up to 2ft. 6in. in length and 4in. in diameter. Packets exceeding these limits will be detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office. The weight must not exceed 4lb.

Short Paid or Irregularly Posted.

18. Book-packets posted wholly unpaid, 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 for in the meantime, sent to the Dead Letter Office. Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid packets addressed to any place within the colony, and insufficiently prepaid packets for places beyond the colony, are sent to destination, charged with double the deficiency, at prepaid rate, on delivery.

19. If “commercial papers” or “samples” are enclosed with “printed papers” the rates for “commercial papers” or “samples” respectively must be paid.

20. “Commercial papers” and “printed papers,” photographs, cards, &c., marked on the outside as such, bearing or containing writing other than that authorised, or closed against inspection, or containing enclosures not authorised by the foregoing rules, or any enclosure addressed to a name which differs from that on the cover, if addressed for any place within the colony, are sent to destination surcharged simple letter rate, minus the postage already prepaid. (The fine on open packets not to exceed 6d., unless the written matter enclosed represents more than a foolscap sheet of writing.) If addressed to any place beyond New Zealand the packets are detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office.

PATTERNS AND SAMPLES.

Rates of Postage.

1. The rates of postage for patterns and samples are—
   For all places within and beyond New Zealand, except Queensland
   For Queensland

   { For each packet not exceeding 4oz.... 1d.
   For each additional 2oz. or fraction thereof ... ½d.
   }
   For each 2oz. or fraction thereof ... 1d.

2. Unpaid or insufficiently prepaid pattern or sample packets are treated in the same manner as unpaid or insufficiently prepaid “printed papers.”

3. If “commercial papers” are included in a pattern or sample packet, then the rates applicable to “commercial papers” must be paid on such packets. “Printed papers” may be enclosed with pattern and sample packets.

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