Postage on Letters to Australia
By Editor
We have been requested by friends in Australia to call the attention of friends in America to the fact that postage on letters sent to the former country should be prepaid at the rate of five cents for each half ounce or fraction thereof. Postage on papers sent to Australia should be prepaid at the rate of one cent for each two ounces. The friends asking us to make this announcement are frequently called upon by the post-office authorities in Australia to pay out considerable sums of money on letters which they receive from America that have not been fully paid for by the senders. In addition to the postage they are required to pay a fine for each letter so received. Weigh your letters, and then pay five cents for every half ounce or fraction thereof you send; weigh the papers you send, and prepay the postage at the rate of one cent for each two ounces. The law of Christian honesty requires that this should be done. And these true principles of honesty require that we should not even "forget" such matters.