✨ Orders in Council
Numb. 66.
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The New Zealand Gazette.
Published by Authority.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1863.
ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Authorising Additional Postal Regulation.
G. GREY,
Governor.
At the Government House, at Auckland,
the Fourteenth day of December, 1863.
Present:-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the "New Zealand Post
Office Act, 1858," power is given to
the Governor in Council, from time to time,
to make Rules and Regulations for the
managing of the several Post Offices of the
said Colony; for the Receiving, Despatching,
Conveying, and Delivering of Letters (in-
cluding the imposition of fees for private
boxes and deliveries); for the Detaining,
Opening and Return, or other disposal of
irregularly posted, unclaimed, and refused
Letters, or such as from any cause whatsoever
cannot be delivered or forwarded, and the
contents thereof respectively, and for the
publication of the Lists of the same; for the
Making, Custody, and Sale of Postage
Labels; for the Receiving and Paying of
Money in connection with the said Postal
Service; and for the conduct of Post Officers;
and any such Rules and Regulations at any
time in force to Alter, Vary, or Revoke;
and, for the purpose of giving effect to the
Rules and Regulations so to be made, further
power is given to the Governor in Council by
the said Act to impose any penalty not ex-
ceeding Ten Pounds for any one offence
against such Rules and Regulations.
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Gover-
nor, by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of New Zealand, doth
hereby make the following additional Post
Office Regulation; and doth declare that the
same shall be in force from and after the
first day of January, 1864.
REGULATION NO. 83.
All sea-borne Mails to be kept open to
within two hours of the departure of the
Mail from the Post Office.
Each Chief Postmaster shall cause Letters
for Great Britain and Australia to be received
at his Office after the closing of the general
Mails, to be made up into a supplementary
Mail consisting of late letters only, and for
each of which an additional fee of one
shilling over and above the ordinary Postage
Rate shall be paid in Postage Stamps affixed
to the Letter. Such supplementary Mails to
be kept open until within twenty minutes of
the latest period of despatch from the Office.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.
ORDER IN COUNCIL,
Defining a certain Reserve in the Province of
Taranaki.
G. GREY, Governor.
At the Government House, at Auckland,
the Fourteenth day of December, 1863.
Present:-
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, intituled
the "Waste Lands Act, 1858," it is provided
that it shall be lawful for the Governor in
Council, at any time and from time to time,
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🏛️ Order in Council Authorising Additional Postal Regulation
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration14 December 1863
Postal regulation, fees, letters, supplementary mail, January 1864
- G. Grey, Governor
- Forster Goring, Clerk of Executive Council
🗺️ Order in Council Defining a certain Reserve in the Province of Taranaki
🗺️ Lands, Settlement & Survey14 December 1863
Land reserve definition, Taranaki Province, Waste Lands Act 1858
- G. Grey, Governor