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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Any other matter shall be wholly in print, and shall relate exclusively to the subject-matter of the document, or the terms on which business is transacted by the person or firm issuing the document. |
| (b) Accounts (received or unreceipted), formal receipts, invoices, premium renewal notices | Only accounts, &c., with printed envelopes for replies if desired, may be enclosed in the same envelope. The words “With thanks” may be added to received accounts, but anything, printed or written, in the nature of a request for payment will subject the account to letter rates of postage. For delivery from the office of posting, and if weighing together not more than ½ oz., accounts and printed papers may be posted in the same envelope at the commercial-paper rate. |
| (c) Affidavits, briefs, deeds, depositions, powers of attorney, recognisances, scrip | Nothing to appear in writing or print which does not form part of the document as a legal instrument. |
| (d) Demands for rates or calls … … | Nothing to appear beyond the name of the local body or the company issuing the notice and a demand for the amount due, together with extracts from any Act or Articles of Association fixing penalties for non-payment, &c. |
| (e) Manuscript for press, manuscript sermons | Any written or printed matter not forming part of the document must refer solely to the arrangement of the type. The covers must be marked “Manuscript for press,” &c. |
| (f) Packets of old or spent letters or post-cards | The letters or postcards must clearly have served their original purpose, and must be at least two months old. Diaries are not accepted as commercial papers. |
| (g) Proposals and policies of insurance and proof of loss, private friends’ and medical reports concerning proposals for insurance, returns of banks, public companies, &c., proxy forms (added to in manuscript or in typewriting), pass-books,b cheque-books, stock-sheets, balance-sheets (unless wholly printed). (Cheque-books for the United Kingdom must be prepaid at letter rates of postage.) | The document, as a rule, to consist of a printed form. Any written matter on such document to consist merely of information or statements appropriate to the form and necessary to the completion of the document. |
| (h) Specifications (with and without plans), examination-papers, pupils’ exercises with corrections but without comment thereon, copy drawings which are pupils’ exercises, paintings, written music | Any written or printed matter not forming part of the document itself must relate exclusively to its subject-matter. |

a See page 21 for special regulations affecting bills of lading and consignees’ advice-notes when posted loose on trains and steamers
b For postage on bank pass-books open to inspection, see section 15, page 27.

(B.) PRINTED PAPERS (INCLUDING BOOKS).

5. The postage to any place within or beyond New Zealand is—
   Printed papers, except newspapers… … ½d. per 2 oz. or fraction thereof.

The following publications may be sent within New Zealand only at the rates mentioned :—

Hansard … … … … 1d. per lb. bulk rate.
Other General Government publications
weighing less than 1 lb. per copy … 2d. ”
“School Journal” … … … 2d. ”
“Schoolmates” … … … 2d. ”
Books for lightkeepers … … … 2d. ”

Definition.

6. Printed papers generally comprise all impressions or copies obtained on paper, parchment, or cardboard, by means of printing, engraving, lithography, autography, or any other mechanical process easy to recognise, except single copies obtained by the copying-press or by type-writer; anything, not of glass, usually attached or appurtenant to any of the undermentioned articles in the way of binding, mounting, or otherwise; and anything convenient for their safe transmission by post. No writing whatever is allowed on printed papers, except as specified hereafter.