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Postal rates at the time of the 1935 Silver Jubilee from:
British Solomon Islands
from UPU tables with much additional material courtesy of Neil Donen.
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1/2d
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- Printed matter, anywhere, per 2 oz, maximum: inland 5 lb, abroad 4 lb or 6½ lb if single volume.
- Newspapers printed within colony, inland, up to 4 oz.
- Newspapers, inland [other than above] per 6 oz or abroad per 2 oz, maximum: empire 5 lb, other 4 lb.
- (Commercial papers, abroad, per 2 oz, maximum: 4 lb, minimum rate: 3d).
- (Samples, abroad, per 2 oz, maximum: 1 lb, minimum rate: 1d).
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1d
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- Postcard, inland & empire.
- Commercial papers, samples, inland, per 4 oz, maximum: 5 lb.
- Newspapers printed within colony, inland, over 4 oz.
- Samples, abroad, minimum rate.
- (Letter, inland & empire, per subsequent oz).
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11/2d
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- Letter, inland & empire, first oz.
- Postcard, foreign.
- (Letter, foreign, per subsequent oz)
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3d
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- Letter, foreign, first oz.
- Commercial papers, abroad, minimum rate.
- (Registration, Advice of delivery or parcel certificate of posting fees).
- (Parcel, inland, per subsequent lb, maximum: 22 lb).
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6d
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- Parcel, inland, up to 1 lb
- (Parcel, Australia, per subsequent lb, maximum: 11 lb).
- [Possible use being a foreign registered letter].
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8d
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- Parcel, Australia, first lb.
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10d
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- (Parcel, abroad apart from to Australia, per subsequent lb, maximum: 11 lb).
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1/-
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- [Possible use being an inland parcel between 2 & 3 lb.]
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