NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF NEW ULSTER.
Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those Persons to whom they may relate.

By His Excellency’s Command,
ANDREW SINCLAIR, Colonial Secretary.

VOL. IV. AUCKLAND, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1851. No 6.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, K.C.B., Governor-in-Chief in and over the Islands of New Zealand, and Governor of the Provinces of New Ulster and New Munster, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session 9, No. 2, intituled, “An Ordinance for Regulating the Conveyance and Postage of Letters,” it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Chief, from time to time, by Proclamation to be published in the Government Gazette, to abolish, alter, and fix the Colonial Postage payable for the transmission by Post of Letters and other Papers, and from time to time, by such Proclamation as aforesaid to alter, repeal, or abolish any Colonial Postage so altered or fixed as aforesaid, and to make and establish any new or other Postage in lieu thereof.

And whereas it is expedient that by pre-paying the postage, persons should be enabled to send Letters to and from the Colony of New Zealand to Great Britain free of postage to the persons receiving the same, and that a system of pre-payment of letters by stamps should be introduced into New Zealand, and to that end that the rates of Colonial Postage to be charged on all Letters be fixed according to the weight thereof and without reference to the distance or number of miles the same may be conveyed.

Now therefore I, the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand, in pursuance and by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the said recited Ordinance and under and by virtue of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, Do hereby proclaim and declare, that on the First day of April, 1851, the rates of Postage now payable in the Colony of New Zealand for the transmission, receipt, or delivery of Letters shall be abolished and repealed. And on and after the said First day of April, 1851, a Colonial Rate of Postage shall be charged and paid on all Letters passing through any Post Office in the Colony of New Zealand, or transmitted by post therein, by weight according to the following rate (that is to say):-

On every Letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight—Two Pence.

On every Letter exceeding half an ounce in weight then the sum of Two Pence for every half ounce or fractional part of half an ounce, according to the weight of such Letter.

The postage on all Letters and Papers despatched from New Zealand to places beyond the seas shall be paid in this Colony.

All Letters and Papers having a Postage Stamp or Stamps affixed thereto or enclosed in covers having a Postage Stamp or Stamps affixed thereto of such form as may be prescribed by the Local Government, which shall not have been used before, and which shall be of the value or amount of the postage to which such Letters or Papers would be respectively liable, according to the scale hereinbefore provided, shall pass by the Post free of Postage.

On all Letters sent by Post, on being redirected and again forwarded by the Post, there