✨ Postage Rate Proclamation
Numb. 39.
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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1876.
(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 twelfth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirteenth day of October in the same year, 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 by a
Proclamation bearing date the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six,
the Governor in Council did fix certain rates of postage payable on book packets and pattern parcels posted
within the colony for delivery within the colony: 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 fourth day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.
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 ounce or fraction of half an ounce ... ... ... 0 1
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NZ Gazette 1876, No 39
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💰 Proclamation fixing and altering internal New Zealand postage rates
💰 Finance & Revenue6 July 1876
Postage rates, Letters, Newspapers, Book Packets, Proclamation, Town Letters
- Normanby, Governor