1Postal, Telegraphic and Telephone Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1905. No. 63.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE POST AND TELEGRAPH ACT 1901.

(Issued provisionally as Statutory Rules 1904, No. 35.)

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

Town and Suburban Letters,

to come into operation on the 2nd day of October, 1905.

Dated this fourteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and five.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AUSTIN CHAPMAN.

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POSTAL REGULATIONS.

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town and Suburban Letters.

The limits within which the rates for town and suburban letters have effect shall be—

(a) In the case of the capital city of a State, the area within a radius not exceeding 13 miles from the General Post Office of the State; and

(b) In the case of any other city or town, the area within a radius, from the principal post office of the city or town, of 1 mile for every 3,000 inhabitants of the city or town and its suburbs; but not exceeding in any case a distance of 8 miles from such principal post office.

Nothing in this Regulation shall diminish any limits within which the rates for town and suburban letters were in force at the commencement of this Regulation.

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

C.9600.—Price 3d.