✨ Postage Rates Proclamation
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s command,
JOSEPH BRITTAN,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. III.] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1856. [No. XXV.]
PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled the "Local Posts Act, 1856," it was amongst other things enacted, that it should be lawful for the Superintendent of any Province, by proclamation in the "Government Gazette" thereof, to fix the rates of postage payable for the transmission, by any post, or postal communication, established under the authority of the said Act, of letters, newspapers, and other papers and parcels; and from time to time by any such Proclamation to alter, repeal, or abolish any postage so fixed as aforesaid, and to fix any other rate of postage in lieu thereof;
And that all postage from time to time to become payable by virtue of any such Proclamation should be charged and be payable accordingly; provided always, that no such rate of postage should exceed the sum which might have been specified for such service by the Provincial Council of the said Province,
AND WHEREAS the Provincial Council of the Province of Canterbury did, on the 7th day of November, 1856, specify the sum of one penny on every newspaper, and one-half of the present postage within the Colony on every letter, as the maximum rates of postage to be charged for all newspapers and letters respectively to be conveyed between Lyttelton, Christchurch, and Kaiapoi, by the Local Posts to be established under the authority of the said recited Act:—
Now, therefore, I, James Edward FitzGerald, Superintendent of the said Province, do hereby, by virtue of the powers vested in me, by the said recited Act of the General Assembly, and of all other powers in that behalf enabling me, proclaim and declare that, from and after the first day of January, 1857, there shall be charged and be payable upon all letters and newspapers conveyed by the local posts about to be established by the authority of the said Act between Lyttelton, Christchurch, and Kaiapoi, in addition to all other postage payable thereon, the sums hereinafter mentioned, that is to say,
On every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight—One Penny.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1856, No 25
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🚂 Proclamation of Postage Rates for Local Posts
🚂 Transport & CommunicationsPostage rates, Local Posts Act, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Kaiapoi
- James Edward FitzGerald (Superintendent), Issued proclamation on postage rates
- James Edward FitzGerald, Superintendent
- Joseph Brittan, Provincial Secretary