✨ Postal Proclamation
Numb. 10.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1862.
POSTAL.
A PROCLAMATION
For exempting from Postage Letters and
Packets on the Public Service of the
Colony under certain Regulations.
By His Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY,
Knight Commander of the Most
Honorable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief
in and over Her Majesty's Colony
of New Zealand and its Dependen-
cies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,
&c., &c., &c.
WHEREAS by the "Post Office Act,
1858," it is enacted that it shall be law-
ful for the Governor from time to time by
Proclamation to be published in the New Zea-
land 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 and 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 Proclamation dated the twenty-
ninth day of December, one-thousand eight-
hundred and sixty, made in pursuance of the
said recited power, certain rates of postage
have been fixed for the transmission of Letters
in manner aforesaid: And it is expedient that
all Letters and Packets on the Public Service
of the Colony should be exempt from the ope-
ration of the said Proclamation :
Now therefore, I, the Governor, in further
pursuance of the said recited power and au-
thority, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of New Zealand, Do hereby
Proclaim and Declare that no Postage shall be
paid or payable for transmission by Post of
Letters or Packets which shall be solely on the
Public Service of the Colony of New Zealand
shall be franked by the Governor or by any
one of such officers of the Government of the
Colony as shall from time to time be author-
ized by the Governor to frank Official Letters
and Packets: Provided that there be endorsed
on any such Letter or Packet the words, "On
Public Service only," and that the signature of
the Governor or such officer as aforesaid frank-
ing the same be subscribed thereto:
And I Do Appoint and Declare that this Pro-
clamation shall take effect on and after the
first day of April next, ensuing.
Given under my hand, at the Govern-
ment House, at Auckland, and
issued under the Seal of
the Colony of New Zealand,
this fourth day of February,
in the year of our Lord, One
thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !
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- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same
- G. GREY