P-NG Postage Rates Up
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Putting More H In The Hcl
From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, May 20.
NEW postage rates came into effect in the Territory on May 17, bringing the charges into line with increases which were introduced in Australia some months ago.
Airmail letters to Australia and New Zealand are now 6d. for the first half ounce; ordinary letters and lettercards are threepence, postcards are 2sd., and there is a halfpenny rise in most other rates.
Telephone rentals which have been £7/10/- a year for both domestic and business phones have jumped to £lO for a private residence, and £l5 for business installations.
Island radiogram charges jumped from twopence a word to threepence, and there is also a rise in internal trunk line and radio-telephone charges. The old basis of charging on six minutes conversation has been amended to three-minutes at a charge of a penny for each five miles radial distance between the exchanges.