JUNE 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1831

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(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.

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be fastened in any way) or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination.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 is 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 of old or spent letters (see page 8) or post-cards which have fulfilled their object and packets containing pass-books of banks (including savings-banks) and building and friendly societies 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 “Library 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 New Zealand, and insufficiently prepaid packets for places beyond New Zealand, are sent to destination, charged with double the deficiency, at prepaid rate, on delivery.

19. Circulars, advertising-books, &c., not relating to patent or proprietary medicines, &c., posted by firms trading abroad, in whatever quantity, on their own business, are not chargeable with Customs duty on receipt through the post in New Zealand. Such matter posted from places abroad to New Zealand on the business of firms trading in New Zealand, or matter advertising medicines, &c., is liable to Customs duty.