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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