2944
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

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Private Cards.

18. Private cards, including pictorial cards, bearing adhesive stamps may also be used as post-cards. They must be composed of ordinary cardboard not thicker than that used for post-cards of the post-card pattern, and sufficiently stout not to hinder manipulation. The size must not be more than 5½in. by 3½in., and not less than 4in. by 2¾in. Single cards and reply-cards for places within New Zealand may be entirely plain, but reply-cards for places beyond New Zealand must bear the words “Post-card with Reply Paid,” and “Reply Post-card.” To other than English-speaking countries these words must appear in French, “Carte Postale avec Réponse Payée,” “Carte Postale—Réponse.” They are otherwise treated like officially issued post-cards.

19. Private cards will be received from the public, and impressed with the penny postage-stamp. The rates for such impressing are the same as for embossing envelopes, which see under “Postage and Revenue Stamps, &c.” (page 24).

Post-card bearing Communication on Front.

20. Post-cards, pictorial or plain, with communications on the address side, may be posted within New Zealand and to all countries in the Postal Union (pages 34-40).

21. On a post-card with the communication on front, the communication is to be separated from the address by a straight vertical line dividing the front space into halves, and the writing, apart from the address, must be on the left-hand side of the line.

BOOK-POST.

1. The book-post is divided into two classes: (a) Commercial Papers, and (b) Printed Papers. For transmission by book-post as a “commercial paper” or “printed paper” an article must be posted either without a cover or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, or in an open envelope with the flap turned inside.

NOTE.—Letters will not pass as commercial papers even if they are sent in open covers. The only way to send a letter is by letter-post, or by writing it on the back of a post-card or on a letter-card. Writing in commonly unknown characters such as Chinese, &c., will render the packet liable to letter rates of postage.

Postal packets containing matter prepared in raised characters for the use of the blind, addressed to or sent by institutes for the blind, or to or by public libraries, are not subject to postage. The nature of the contents should be indicated on the cover.

(A.) COMMERCIAL PAPERS.

Rates of Postage.

2. For delivery from the office at which posted (town deliveries) the following documents, if not exceeding ½oz., may be sent for ½d.:

Accounts (received or unreceipted), formal receipts, invoices, premium renewal notices, demands for rates or calls. (See conditions below.)

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.

3. 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.