✨ Government Orders in Council
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1866.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
G. GREY, Governor.
Approved in Council this twenty-third day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Present:
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
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 Regu-
lations for managing the several Post Offices within the
said Colony, for the receiving, despatching, conveying,
and delivering of letters, (including the imposition of
fees for private boxes and deliveries), for the detain-
ing, opening, and return or other disposal of irregu-
larly 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, and 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
the Post Officers, and any such Rules and Regula-
tions at any time in force to alter, vary, or revoke.
And whereas by an Order in Council dated eight-
eenth December, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five, certain Post Office Regulations were
established to take effect from and after the first
day of January, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-six, wherein it was provided that country Post-
masters and licensed stamp sellers should receive a
poundage of five per cent. on their sales of postage
stamps, and whereas it is expedient that the payment
of such poundages should be abolished:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in
pursuance of the said recited power and authority,
doth by this present Order, by and with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand,
revoke so much of clause twenty-three of the said
Regulations as provides for the payment to country
Postmasters and licensed stamp sellers, of a poundage
of five per cent. on their sales of postage labels, and
doth further declare that this Order shall take effect
from and after the fourteenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
G. GREY, Governor.
Approved in Council this twenty-third day of March,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
Present:
THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Gold Fields Act, 1862," it is
amongst other things enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council, from time to
time, to appoint Wardens as Judges of Warden's
Courts for any gold field, or for any part thereof, for
the administration of justice therein, with power to
act alone or with Assessors or Juries, and in such
manner and to exercise all or any of the powers there-
inafter mentioned, as the Governor shall think fit to
direct:
Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by
and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of New Zealand, doth hereby appoint the
persons undermentioned, that is to say-
MATTHEW PRICE, Esq., and
MICHAEL KEOGH, Esq.,
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NZ Gazette 1866, No 22
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🚂 Revocation of Post Office Poundage Regulations for Stamp Sellers
🚂 Transport & Communications23 March 1866
Post Office Act 1858, Regulations, Postmasters, Stamp Sellers, Poundage abolition, May 1866
- G. GREY, Governor
- FORSTER GORING, Clerk of the Executive Council
🌾 Appointment of Wardens for Gold Fields Courts
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources23 March 1866
Gold Fields Act 1862, Warden, Judge, Warden's Court, Appointment
- Matthew Price (Esquire), Appointed Warden/Judge
- Michael Keogh (Esquire), Appointed Warden/Judge
- G. GREY, Governor