✨ Government Postage Proclamation
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1862.
A PROCLAMATION
For exempting from Payment Letters ad-
dressed to certain Departments of the
Government.
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 De-
pendencies, 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-
sixth day of December, one-thousand eight-
hundred and sixty, certain rates of postage
were fixed for the transmission of Letters
in New Zealand aforesaid: And by another Procla-
mation, dated the fourth day of February, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, all
Letters and Packets on the Public Service of
the Colony were exempted from the operation
of the said Proclamation, provided that there
should be endorsed upon such Letters or Packets
the words, "On Public Service only," and that
the signature of the Governor, or of some Offi-
cer of the Government duly authorised by him
in that behalf, should be subscribed thereto :
And whereas it is expedient further to extend
such exemption,
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,
and shall be so marked on the outside, and
addressed to His Excellency the Governor of
the Colony, or to the several Officers of Govern-
ment who shall from time to time be desig-
nated by the Governor as entitled to receive
such Letters, or which shall be addressed to
such Officers as aforesaid by Aboriginal Na-
tives, whether with or without such endorse-
ment as aforesaid.
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
twelfth day of February in the
year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
G. GREY.
By His Excellency's command,
HENRY SEWELL.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
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NZ Gazette 1862, No 11
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🚂 Proclamation exempting certain Government letters from postage fees
🚂 Transport & Communications12 February 1862
Proclamation, Postage exemption, Post Office Act 1858, Public Service, Auckland
- Sir George Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- Henry Sewell