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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 112
Postage and Telegraph Rates.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this twenty-third day of September, 1915.
Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.
IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations and fix the rates and charges given in the Schedule hereto for the posting of postal packets and the despatch of telegrams respectively; and doth order and declare that any regulations and charges of similar purport heretofore made are hereby revoked in so far as they are not in agreement with the regulations and charges made in the said Schedule, but that otherwise any such other regulations and charges shall remain in full force and virtue, and shall be read and applied together with the regulations and charges hereby made and fixed; and doth further order and declare that such regulations and charges first hereinbefore mentioned shall have effect on and after the date of the publication of this Order in Council in the New Zealand Gazette.
SCHEDULE.
POSTAGE RATES.
In addition to the rates of postage heretofore levied, an additional charge of ½d. each shall be levied on postal packets of every kind, except newspapers, posted in New Zealand: Provided that no such additional charge shall be levied on any postal packet addressed to any country beyond New Zealand to which the postage rates or any postage rate are or is the maximum rates or rate fixed by the Universal Postal Union Convention of Rome (1906), Article 5—that is to say, for letters, the rates of 2½d. for the first ounce, and 1½d. for each succeeding ounce or fraction thereof; 1d. and 2d. for single and reply postcards; for commercial papers, 2½d. for the first 10 oz. and ½d. for each succeeding 2 oz. or fraction thereof; for books and printed papers, ½d. for each 2 oz. or fraction thereof; for pattern and sample packets, 1d. for the first 4 oz. and ½d. for each succeeding 2 oz. or fraction thereof; for magazines, ½d. for each 2 oz. or fraction thereof.
TELEGRAPH CHARGES.
The charges for transmission of a telegram shall be—
- For Ordinary Telegrams.
DELIVERED WITHIN THE DOMINION.
On weekdays—
For 12 words or less, including address and signature—
Urgent .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 2
Ordinary .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 0 8
Extra words, 1d. and ½d. each respectively.
On Sundays the rates to be charged at all offices shall be—
For 12 words or less, including address and signature—
Urgent .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 2
Ordinary .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1 2
Extra words, 2d. and 1d. each respectively.
- For Cable Messages.
The charges set out in the table of rates published from time to time in the New Zealand Post and Telegraph Guide for transmission of telegrams beyond New Zealand, plus 2d. for each telegram.
J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
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Postage, Telegraph, Rates, Regulations, Schedule
- J. F. Andrews, Clerk of the Executive Council