Oct. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2949

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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be fastened in any way) or in a cover entirely open at one or both ends, so as to admit of the contents being easily withdrawn for examination.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 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 7) 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.

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

21. “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 regulations, or any enclosure addressed to a name which differs from that on the cover, if addressed for any place within New Zealand, are sent to destination surcharged simple letter rate, minus the postage already prepaid. (The fine on open packets is 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.