✨ Postage Rate Proclamation
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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1871.
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The New Zealand Post
Office Act, 1858," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time,
by Proclamation to be published in the New Zealand 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 or 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
certain Proclamations duly made and issued, bearing date the sixth day of June one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-seven, the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven,
the ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the twenty-first day of March one
thousand eight hundred and seventy, the second day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the
second day of August one thousand eight hundred and seventy, the eleventh day of May one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, respectively, the Governor in Council did, in pursuance of the said recited
power and authority, fix certain rates of postage, and the times at which the same respectively should be
paid as therein mentioned: And whereas it is desirable that the said rates should be altered and that
other rates of postage should be fixed as hereinafter mentioned:
Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in exercise of the said
recited power and authority, and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council thereof, do hereby
abolish all former rates of postage fixed to be paid within the Colony, and do proclaim and declare that the
postage payable within the Colony for the transmission of all letters, newspapers, and packets by post to
or from the countries mentioned in the several Schedules hereto, shall be according to the rates mentioned
in such Schedules, and that such postage shall in all cases be paid at the time such letters, newspapers, and
packets are delivered into the post; and with the like advice and consent as aforesaid I do further pro-
claim and declare that this Proclamation shall take effect from and after the twenty-second day of
November, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.
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NZ Gazette 1871, No 61
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🚂 Proclamation abolishing former postage rates and fixing new rates for transmission of mail.
🚂 Transport & Communications28 November 1871
Postage rates, Proclamation, Mail transmission, Letters, Newspapers, Packets, Postal Act 1858
- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand