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New Zealand Postal Rates were also applicable in the Cook Islands, Niue and Samoa
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Postal Rates - New Zealand
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Descriptor
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Rate
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Commentary
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Inland
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- Letter first ounce (oz)
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1d
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Each additional oz = ½d
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- Post card
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½d
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Reply post card = 1d
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- Newspapers
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<3 oz = ½d; 3-16 ozs = 1d.
Effective September 1935 new rate = ½d per 8 oz
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- Commercial papers and packets
per 2 oz (up to 2lbs)
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½d
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2-5 lb = additional 2d per lb.
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- Literature for the blind
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½d
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Empire
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- Letter per ounce
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1d
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Included USA, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, Romania,
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- Post card
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½d
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- Literature for the blind per lb
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½d
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Foreign
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- Letter first ounce (oz)
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2½d
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Each additional oz = 1½d
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- Post card
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1d
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- Printed paper per oz
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½d
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Minimum rate =1d
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- small packet per 2 oz
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1½d
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Minimum rate = 6d
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- Literature for the blind per lb
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½d
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Airmail
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- Inland Letter per ½ ounce
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1d
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The only regular inland airmail service in 1935 was between Hokitika and Okuru (There was no additional charge as all mail was delivered by air).
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- Inland Post card
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½d
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Parcel Post
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- Inland parcels
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<1 lb = 6d; 1-10 lb = additional 2d per lb; 10-14 lb = additional 1d per lb
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Other
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- Registration fee
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3d
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- Late fee
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1d
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- Insurance (Letters and parcels)
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<£12 = 6d; Each additional £12 to £400 = 2d
Note for parcels <£2 = 4d; £2-12 = additional 2d then as above.
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Notes
There was no inland airmail service in Cook Islands, Niue or Samoa
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Airmail rates - New Zealand 
(See note below)
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Destination
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Letters
per ½ oz
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ASIA & OCEANIA
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Australia (onward air transmission in Australia)
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4d
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Japan
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7d
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Malaya, Straits Settlements, Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, Philippines
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9d
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Siam, Thialand
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1s
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Burma
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1s 1d
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India
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1s 2d
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Gwadar (Balochistan)
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1s 5d
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EUROPE
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Great Britain
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1s 6d
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Gibraltar
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1s 8d
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France, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Portugal
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1s 9d
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Belgium, Malta
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1s 10d
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Roumania
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1s 11d
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Austria, Hungary, Spain, Yugoslavia
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2s
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Germany, Holland, Poland, Switzerland
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2s 1d
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Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden
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2s 2d
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Estonia, Finland, Russia
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2s 3d
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MIDDLE EAST
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Bahrein
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1s 6d
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Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Palestine, Syria
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1s 7d
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Iran (Jask)
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1s 9d
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Iran (Bushire), Turkey
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1s 11d
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AFRICA
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Egypt
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1s 7d
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Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia
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2s 4d*
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Ethiopia
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1s 8d
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Sudan
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1s 10d
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French West Africa
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3s 2d*
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Gambia, Gold Coast
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1s 6d
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Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika
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2s 3d
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Belgian Congo
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2s 4d
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Northern & Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Zanzibar
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2s 5d
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Mocambique
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3s 5d
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South Africa, South West Africa, Bechuanaland
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2s 9d
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Madagascar
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4s 4d
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Note:
All rates listed above are for mail sent by ship to Australia and forwarded on by airmail from Australia.
There was a 7d supplemental fee for mail flown directly from New Zealand over the Tasman Sea.
Airmail rate from New Zealand to Sydney only was 7d.
* = Airmail via France
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