Postal Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1955. No. 28.

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REGULATION UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901-1950.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901-1950.

Dated this fourteenth day of April, 1955

W. J. Slim

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General,

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Amendment of the Postal Regulations. 

Payments to masters of vessels.

Regulation 258 of the Postal Regulations is amended by omitting the table and inserting in its stead the following table :—

Conveyance of—	Rate of Payment.
Letters and post cards in harbours and on rivers	Eightpence per pound
		Mails (other than letters and post cards) in harbours and or rivers	One shilling and four pence per hundred-weight
Mails to places within the Commonwealth otherwise than in harbours and on rivers	Ten pounds per ton by weight
Mails to places beyond the Commonwealth— Where the mails are to be conveyed up to three thousand miles	Fifteen pounds eight shillings per ton by weight
Where the mails are to be conveyed over three thousand miles and up to six thousand miles	Twenty-nine pounds eighteen shillings per ton by weight
Where the mails are to be conveyed over six thousand miles	Thirty-five pounds per ton by weight

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1955.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 3, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 53, 70, 80 and 95; 1936, Nos. 50 and 113; 1937, Nos. 13, 35, 37 and 48; 1938, Nos. 2, 55, 94 and 100: 1939, Nos. 44, 57 and 66; 1940, Nos. 1 and 232; 1942, Nos. 5, 313, 439 and 554; 1943, Nos. 57, 94, 122, 237 and 286; 1944, No. 145; 1945, No. 194; 1946, Nos. 131 and 149; 1947, Nos. 91 and 114; 1948, No. 62; 1949, Nos. 23, 30, 38 and 106; 1950, Nos. 49 and 93; 1951, Nos. 22 and 72; 1952, No. 38; 1953, No. 81; and 1954, No. 52.

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