Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 27.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE “POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.”

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rule No. 11 of 1906.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the undermentioned Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act, 1901, namely:—

General Postal Regulations—Private Mail Bags,

to come into operation on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1906.

Dated this seventh day of April, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LITTLETON ERNEST GROOM.

 

General Postal Regulations.

Private Mail Bags.

Regulation 1 under this head is repealed, and the following Regulation is substituted in lieu thereof:—

1. The charge for a private mail bag made up, and despatched not more than three times a week, shall be £1 per annum, but if the bag be made up and despatched more frequently, the charge shall be £2 per annum, provided, however, that the charge for bags made up in Country Post Offices not more than once daily, and conveyed from and to the Post Office by a private messenger, shall be £1 per annum. In each case the charge shall be payable in advance.

 

By Authority: Robt. S. brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.

C.3143.—Price 3d.