✨ Proclamation on Postage Rates
Numb. 56. 643
SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1875.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1875.
(L.S.) NORMANBY, 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
Proclamation duly made and issued, bearing date the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three, 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, His Excellency 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 proclaim and
declare that this Proclamation shall take effect from and after the twelfth day of October, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five.
RATES OF POSTAGE CHARGEABLE ON LETTERS, BOOK PACKETS, NEWSPAPERS, ETC., POSTED IN NEW
ZEALAND.
SCHEDULE A.
I.—TOWN LETTERS.
For delivery at or from the same Post Office at which the letters are posted—
Not exceeding half an ounce ... ... ... s. d.
... ... ... 0 1
Every additional half an ounce or fraction of half an ounce ... ... ... 0 1
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