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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The weight of Registered letters for any of the Mail from France" have been prepared,
these classes must be entered in Column 7
instead of in Column 5.
and a supply of each is sent herewith.
Provision is made in these Forms for credit-
ting this office with the several amounts which it
will have to pay to France on the letters the
postage of which is collected in New Zealand
and for crediting your office with the postage
due to it on letters, the postage on which is
collected by the French Post Office. One.
of the Forms must be sent by you to the
office of the Receiver and Accountant General
in London on the despatch of each Mail to
France and on the receipt of each Mail from
France.

All letters sent from New Zealand in the
Mails for France must bear a date stamp, and
all Registered letters must, in addition, be
stamped with the word "Registered."

All unpaid letters and Printed Papers must
bear a stamp shewing at what rate per ounce
or per kilogramme the French Post office is to
account for the British postage of such letters
or Printed Papers.

Paid letters must invariably be stamped in
red PD or PP according as they are paid to
destination or paid to a certain point.

The several stamps above referred to are
sent herewith.

The addresses of Registered letters must be
entered in Table No 4 of the Letter Bill,
and the Letters themselves must be tied with
string and made fast to the Letter Bill by a
seal.

The word "Registered" must also be
stamped at the top of the Letter Bill whenever
the mail contains one or more Registered
letters.

A proper label must be affixed to each
separated bundle of Letters sent in the Mail.
A supply of these labels is sent herewith.

Mis-sent and redirected letters are to be
brought to account in Tables 2 and 3 of the
Letter Bill.

All the foregoing regulations will be obser-
ved in France upon the despatch of Mails to
New Zealand and it will be necessary for you
to have the several entries checked on the ar-
rival of the Mails at your office.

For every Mail received from France an
acknowledgment must be forwarded to the
office from which the Mail was sent.

A Form for acknowledging the last Mail
received from France is appended to each
form of Letter Bill which you are to use for
Mails sent to France.

In this acknowledgment the items copied
from the French Letter Bill should be inserted
in columns 4, 5, 6 and 7, and the particulars as
verified at your office should be inserted in
columns 8, 9, 10 and 11.

As the sums due to or from France will
be brought into the general accounts between
this Department and the French Post office, it
will be necessary that you should send to this
office at the end of every month a duplicate of
each Letter Bill which you despatch and the
original Letter Bill and acknowledgments
which you receive from France during the
month.

It will then remain to adjust the account
between this Department and your office with
reference to this correspondence and to enable
the Receiver and Accountant General to make
this adjustment, two Forms, one headed a
"statement of the correspondence contained in
the Mail for France" and the other headed a
"statement of the correspondence contained in

I enclose some copies of a Table showing
the Rates of postage to be collected in New
Zealand upon prepaid letters sent in the Mails
for France. Upon Newspapers, as I have
already stated, only the Colonial rate, of post-
age is to be collected.

You will understand that it is not intended
that you should send in the Mails for France
whenever all the correspondence for the several countries
enumerated in this Table, but merely that
upon those letters which you do send in the
Mails for France the rates of postage specified
in the Table are to be collected, and the other
directions contained in this letter are to be
observed..

The rates of postage to be collected in New.
Zealand upon unpaid letters received in the
Mails from France will be the same as upon
paid letters sent in the Mails to France, ex-
cept in the case of unpaid letters originating
in France or Algeria.

Upon this last description of letters, as the
French Post Office is to receive credit for two
francs an ounce, (which is double the amount
to be accounted for on paid letters addressed to
France or Algeria,) instead of 8d. per quarter
ounce, 10d. per quarter ounce must be col-
lected in New Zealand, being 5d. for French
rate, 4d. for British sea rate and 1d. for the
New Zealand rate.

In conclusion, I am to request that you will
be good enough to acknowledge the receipt of
this letter and state whether the regulations
here laid down for your guidance are fully
understood.

As it has been arranged that Mails shall be
exchanged between France and Wellington as
well as between France and Auckland, I have
forwarded to you a duplicate set of stamps,
forms, &c., for the use of the Wellington
Office, and I request that you will be good
enough to furnish the Postmaster with the
necessary instructions for the exchange of
Mails under the new regulations.

I am, &c.,

F. HILL.

The Posmaster General,
Auckland.