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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Description of Article.

(h) Circulars, i.e., printed letters, printed or typewritten, or produced in fac-simile from typewriting by the mimeograph, posted in quantity and bearing internal evidence that they are intended for transmission in identical terms to the several addressees

NOTE.—Printed letters posted singly, and which are of the nature of an actual and personal correspondence, must be paid for as letters. For example, printed letters or slips, such as “You are requested to call at this office without delay,” “Your account is very much overdue, and must be settled forthwith,” cannot be accepted as circulars unless at least twenty copies in identical terms are posted at one time.

(j) Labels, blank or printed

(k) Newspaper cuttings

(l) Newspapers sent as proofs of printing

(m) Obliterated postage-stamps addressed to places within New Zealand and Australia. For other places see section 8, page 25.

(n) Proofs of printing, with or without the manuscript relating thereto

(p) Prospectuses

(r) Ships’ advices

(s) Voting-papers

Remarks.

Circulars may be corrected in writing, and the date of despatch and the name and address and description of the sender and addressee may be inserted in writing. If produced by any other mechanical process than printing, at least twenty copies must be submitted to the post-office simultaneously for posting, and special attention called to their nature. The word “Circular” must be written or printed on the circular and on the envelope containing it. Inland circulars posted in quantities may be prepaid in cash (see page 38).

In packets.

The title, date, number, and address of the publication from which the clipping is made may be added.

Must be addressed to advertising agents and superscribed “Proofs of printing” (see page 31).

If registered.

Manuscript additions and alterations relating to the subject-matter or the arrangement or correction of the type may be inserted.

Wholly printed and without note or comment.

The name of the ship and dates of arrival and of departure may be added in writing.

Completed or uncompleted.

10. The expressions referring to printing include any species of type-printing, engraving, lithography, autography, &c., easy to recognise. (Section 6, page 24.)

Posted in Quantity unstamped.—“Householder” Circulars.

11. Circulars or other printed matter may be prepaid in cash to the number of not less than 240 at the ordinary rates of postage (see page 38), and each addressed fully in the usual way, or addressed merely “The Householder” (with or without place of delivery; if no place is mentioned, the town of posting is to be understood as the place of delivery). Delivery of the latter will be made by letter-carrier to every householder within the letter-carriers’ respective deliveries so far as the supply goes. Householder circulars posted under this rule but not delivered may be claimed by the person or firm posting them.

When Writing is permitted.

12. Printed papers, of which the text has been modified after printing, either by hand or by means of a mechanical process, except as specified herein, or which bear any mark whatever of such a kind as to constitute a conventional language, cannot be sent at printed-paper rates.

13. As exceptions to the above rule, it is permitted—

(a.) To indicate on the outside of the paper the name, commercial standing, and address of the sender;

(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.