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Regulation 1 under this head is repealed, and the following Regulation is substituted in lieu thereof:—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