✨ Postal Regulations
June 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1623
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in official instructions includes Tasmania, except on occasions when directions may be given to exclude Tasmania. “Australian States” includes Tasmania.)
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The Australian and Foreign Mail List is printed for the information of officers, and must be corrected from time to time in accordance with announcements which appear in the Official Circular. No mails may be made up for foreign offices except those specified in the list, and the instructions there given are to be read as part of these rules and regulations.
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The Chief Postmasters at Christchurch, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, and Invercargill, will despatch as much as possible of the outward San Francisco mail to reach Wellington on a day prior to the date of despatch from Wellington. There is no necessity to make up more than one mail, as a note can be kept of the bags forwarded for entry in the one letter-bill. The final portion will, of course, be sent on in time to reach Wellington on the proper day.
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Mails for the United States are to be made up at Auckland for specially addressed correspondence, to connect with the Vancouver steamer outwards at Fiji. These mails are carried by the Vancouver steamers as far as Honolulu, and, as a rule, are despatched from Honolulu to San Francisco, instead of being carried on to Vancouver.
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Insufficiently prepaid newspapers and heavy newspapers prepaid at the penny rate for the United Kingdom are not to be sent by way of San Francisco or Suez, but to be kept back for the first direct steamer. The public should be warned that unless newspapers are fully prepaid the Department cannot undertake to forward them by the quickest routes. (See Guide: Newspapers.)
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In direct mails to Italian offices, on the letter-bill accompanying the first mail of each year the number of the last mail despatched the previous year must be stated. Thus the first mail despatched from Auckland to Naples in January, 1905, would be No. 1, and on the letter-bill of that mail the number of the last mail despatched in 1904 would be stated in addition, thus: “Last mail despatched in 1904, No. —.”
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The numbering of letter-bills replaces, under Postal Union rules, the system of acknowledgments. Except, therefore, as provided in the following clause, offices of despatch must carefully number in an annual series the letter-bills for each of the offices of destination. In the case of mails for the United Kingdom, the letter-bills for each of the offices and by each
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