Fiji Increases Postal
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Rates
ALTHOUGH Fiji postal rates a already very high, they will increased at the beginning of Apr The Post and Telegraph ment says that the reason is t steeply rising cost of handling, ai that in some instances they have be< charging less than the actual cc of freight.
In future, airmail charges frc Fiji to New Zealand will be 8d p half-ounce (formerly 6d); to Ad tralia 1/- (lOd); United Kingdoi USA and Canada 2/6 (2/-). Loc postages will also go up—local tov delivery to Hd and to other pai of to 2Jd.
In July, postal charges for overse parcels will rise by about 100 p cent, and all charges connected wii telephone services by 25 per cent.
Fiji will probably then have ti dearest post and telegraph service the world. (Australian air-mail charges ai 6Jd per half ounce to New Zealai and Papua-New Guinea; 9d to Fii 1/6 to the UK—all in Australis currency which is worth 12i p cent, less than Fiji’s. Australia] think that these charges are ve: steep).