New Zealand Gazette – 1910 – No. 3

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✨ International Postage Rates Table



RATES OF POSTAGE, ETC.—continued.

Country. Letter-postage per Oz.* Newspaper-postage.* Routes. (Main in Roman Type, Alternatives in Italics.) Reply Coupons. Prohibitions. Special Items. Country.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
GOLD COAST 1d. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. London .. Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. Limit of weight for pattern and sample packets, 5 lb. Packets of pictorial cards are prohibited from transmission as printed matter Gold Coast.
GREECE .. 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. Colombo .. Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c.; also saccharine and its products, except by parcel-post under certain restrictions .. Greece.
GREENLAND 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. Brindisi or Naples.. Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Greenland.
GRENADA .. 1d. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. New York Suez—London .. .. Articles of value are liable to Customs duty, but are not prohibited from transmission by letter-post Grenada.
GUADALOUPE 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. New York Suez—London .. Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Guadaloupe.
GUATEMALA 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. New York Rio de Janeiro .. Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Guatemala.
HAWAII (or SANDWICH ISLANDS) 1d. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. Auckland .. .. Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Hawaii (or Sandwich Islands).
HAYTI .. 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. New York Suez—London Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Hayti.
HOLLAND .. 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. Brindisi or Naples.. Frisco—London Vancouver—London Reply coupons exchanged Pirated editions of copyright books .. Holland.
HONDURAS REPUBLIC 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. New York Suez—London Rio de Janeiro Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Honduras Republic.
HONG KONG (and its agencies in China: see col. 7) 1d. 1d. for each newspaper Hong Kong Colombo Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c.; lottery-tickets, advertisements, circulars, &c., concerning lotteries; opium, morphia, morphine, and cocaine Limit of weight for pattern and sample packets, 5 lb. The Hong Kong Post Office maintains agencies at the undermentioned places in China: Amoy, Canton, Chefoo, Foochow, Hankow, Hoihow, Liu-kung-tau (Wei-hai-wei), Ningpo, Shanghai, Swatow, and Tientsin Hong Kong.
HUNGARY .. See Austria-Hungary .. .. .. .. .. Hungary.
ICELAND .. 2½d. for first oz. and 1¼d. for each additional oz. 1d. for first 4 oz. and ½d. for each additional 2 oz. Brindisi or Naples.. Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. .. Iceland.
INDIA (British) 1d. 1d. for each newspaper Tuticorin (India) .. Reply coupons exchanged Coin, gold, silver, precious stones, jewellery, &c. All articles of intrinsic value are liable to Customs duty in India, and must not be forwarded by letter-post Limit of weight for pattern and sample packets, 5 lb. Works of art (including photographs), ruled and printed forms, account and manuscript books, blotting-pads, labels, sheet, card, and block almanacs, calendars of every description, diaries, cards in general and picture-books, and old newspapers intended to be used as packing are liable to Customs duty, unless sent in small quantities by private individuals for private use. Any such articles considered by the Indian Post Office to be merchandise will be delivered only on payment of Customs charges India (British).
IRELAND .. See United Kingdom .. .. .. .. .. Ireland.

*For rates of postage on other classes of correspondence see heading of table.



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🚂 Table of International Postage Rates and Regulations (continued) (continued from previous page)

🚂 Transport & Communications
18 January 1910
International postage, Letter rates, Newspaper rates, Postal routes, Reply coupons, Prohibitions, Special items, Weight limits, Customs duty, Gold Coast, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Guatemala, Hawaii, Hayti, Holland, Honduras Republic, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland