STATUTORY RULES.
1905. No. 58.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the attached Regulation under the Post and Telegraph Act 1901, namely:—
General Postal Regulations: Payment of Postage by the Receiver,
should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.
Dated this fourteenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and five.
NORTHCOTE,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
AUSTIN CHAPMAN.
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GENERAL POSTAL REGULATIONS.
Payment of Postage by the Receiver.
The following Regulation shall be inserted under this head, after Regulation 2, under the head “Prepayment of Postage.”
The postage on the following postal articles may be paid by the receiver, instead of being prepaid by the sender:—
Books concerning the “Library of Famous Literature,” addressed G. Catto Maclaren, 26 Exchange Corner, 63 Pitt-street, Sydney, and forwarded thereto from any place within the Commonwealth, if enclosed in covers with the address referred to printed thereon, and bearing the following printed indorsement in the place where postage stamps are usually affixed, namely.—“By arrangement with the Postal Authorities, the postage (......) on this book is payable by the addressee on delivery in Sydney. The sender is, therefore, not required to affix stamps. Do not gum down the flap of this envelope.”
By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.
C.9956.—Price 3d.