Numb. 35.

305

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
thirty-first day of May, 1871.

Present:
THE HONORABLE THE PREMIER, PRESIDING, 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 regula-
tions for the management of the several Post Offices
of the said Colony; for the receiving, despatching,
conveying and delivering of letters; for the detaining,
opening, and return or other disposal of irregularly
posted, unclaimed, and refused letters, or such as
from any cause whatever cannot be delivered or for-
warded, 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
not exceeding ten pounds for any one offence against
such rules and regulations: And whereas by Order
in Council, dated the sixteenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, the Governor
in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited
power and authority, make the rules and regulations
specified in the Schedule thereinafter written: And
whereas it is expedient to alter clause thirty-one of
the aforesaid regulations:

Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Ferguson
Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance
of the said recited power and authority, and by and
with the consent of the Executive Council, doth by
this present Order revoke clause thirty-one of the
aforesaid regulations, and in lieu thereof doth make
the regulations specified in the Schedule hereinafter
written; and further doth declare that this Order
shall take effect on and after the first day of July,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

SCHEDULE.
LETTERS.

Clause 31.—If a letter be posted wholly unpaid,
the letter must be detained and dealt with according
to rule 153. If a letter addressed to any place
within the Colony be not sufficiently prepaid with
postage stamps, but nevertheless bear a postage
stamp of the value of one penny, the letter must be
forwarded charged with double the amount of the
deficient postage. If a letter liable to more than one
rate of postage, and addressed to any place in the
United Kingdom, the Colonies of New South Wales,
Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western
Australia, be prepaid with one rate at least, the letter
must be forwarded charged with the deficiency and
an amount equal to one rate as a fine; but a letter
addressed to any other colony or foreign country,
if not fully prepaid, must be detained and dealt with
according to rule 153.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

W. GISBORNE.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Immigration and Public
Works Act, 1870," it is among other things
enacted that the Governor may, at the request of the
Superintendent of any Province, from time to time
make regulations (as therein mentioned) for the con-
duct of Immigration under the said Act into such
Province, and for the nomination of Immigrants by
persons resident therein, and for the distribution of
funds provided by the said Act for Immigration pur-
poses, and for the introduction into and settlement in
such Province of Immigrants, and for selling as special
settlements for any such Immigrants any lands which
he may acquire from any Province under the pro-
visions therein contained, or any lands acquired under
"The New Zealand Settlements Act, 1863," or the
Acts amending the same, and for laying out and
allotting any lands so acquired amongst any such
Immigrants: And whereas John Davies Ormond,
Esq., the Superintendent of the Province of Hawke's
Bay, hath requested me, Sir George Ferguson Bowen,
the Governor of New Zealand, to make regulations