✨ Postage Rate Proclamation
Numb. 2.
The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1861.
A PROCLAMATION,
Altering rates of Postage on Letters and
Newspapers forwarded through the United
Kingdom.
By His Excellency Colonel THOMAS
GORE BROWNE, Companion of
the Most Honorable Order of the
Bath, Governor and Commander-
in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's
Colony of New Zealand and Vice-
Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled,
the "New Zealand Post Office Act, 1858,"
it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time by
Proclamation to be published in the New
Zealand Gazette, to fix, alter, and abolish
the rates of Postage at any time payable
within the Colony for the transmission
of Letters and Newspapers by Post, either
between places within New Zealand or to or
from places beyond seas, and at what time
the same shall be paid, and that the Postage
so made payable shall be charged and paid
accordingly. And whereas by a Proclama-
tion duly made and issued, bearing date the
tenth day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, the Governor in
Council did in pursuance of the said recited
power and authority, fix certain rates of postage,
and the times at which the same respectively
should be paid. And whereas it is desirable
that some of the said rates shou'd be altered
as hereinafter mentioned,
Now, therefore, I, the Governor of New
Zealand, in exercise of the said recited power
and authority, with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council, do hereby alter the
rates of postage, payable within the Colony,
for the transmission of Letters and News-
papers by post, to or from places beyond
seas, passing through the English Post Office;
And I do proclaim and declare that such rates
shall be the rates set forth in the Schedule
hereunto annexed, together with such rates
as shall from time to time be fixed by lawful
authority in England, for postage from Eng-
land to certain places beyond the Seas.
And I do further appoint and declare that
this Proclamation shall take effect on and
after the first day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
Given under my hand, at the Go-
vernment House at Auckland,
and issued under the Public Seal
of the Colony, this twenty-ninth
day of December, in the year
of Our Lord, One thousand
eight hundredand sixty.
T. GORE BROWNE.
By His Excellency's command,
E. W. STAFFORD.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
SCHEDULE
TABLE SHOWING THE RATES OF POSTAGE UPON
LETTERS AND NEWSPAPERS POSTED IN NEW
ZEALAND.
- Inland Letters.
From any part of New Zealand to any
other part of New Zealand; prepaid or not,
according to the option of the sender, a uni-
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🚂 Proclamation Altering Postage Rates on Letters and Newspapers via the United Kingdom
🚂 Transport & Communications29 December 1860
Postage rates, Letters, Newspapers, United Kingdom, Post Office Act 1858, Proclamation, Inland Letters
- Colonel Thomas Gore Browne, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- E. W. Stafford